Most People Will Not Take Action
Leofinance is a platform focused on business, investing, and cryptocurrency. As such, we can look at this through the lens of building wealth. Remember, wealth is not money but, rather, business. Money is a tool that is used to generate wealth through the creation of business that provide goods and services people use.
The reality is the more people who are service by a product or service, the more wealth that is generated. Of course, this also throws off more money which is why some of the wealthiest people in the world are the level they are.
When a Jeff Bezos builds a company that serves millions of people without leaving their homes, that is going to generate billions of dollars. The same is true for Mark Zuckerberg, a guy who has a customer list that is over 2 billion. There are some people who use his products for 4-5 hours per day. Any wonder why he is worth so much?
Of course, these are the outliers. The reality is most will never achieve this level of success. In fact, most will achieve almost no success. Sadly, the reason is not because of their intelligence, background, or anything else that people point to. It is simply because they refuse to take action.
In short, people are consumed by fear which they wrap in excuses.
Excel At Excuses
Most people major in excuses. They will be able to give you all the "reasons" why they are broke, fat, and their home life sucks. You can watch the deferment to the wife, boss, or whomever. They always have someone else to blame. It is never their fault.
Isn't this what we see in cryptocurrency? Do we not see people blaming the whales, Elon Musk, or whatever catches their fancy.
Speaking of Musk, did you see he is now being sued for the supposed pump and dump of DOGE? This is just another in a long line of people who are suing influencers and celebrities for losing money.
Seriously? Are you kidding me? Did these people believe the celebrity had any clue what he or she is talking about? Maybe I should sue Captain Kirk because Priceline didn't give me the best deal. Do you think he is a Priceline user?
The reality is that if you get your cryptocurrency advice from Kim Kardashian and you lose your money by buying some NFT or whatever she promotes, you deserve to lose it. A fool and his money are soon parted is the old saying. Perhaps women aren't dumb enough to choose Kim as their financial advisors. Whatever the reason, the plaintiff only need to look in the mirror to see who the fool is.
Personal responsibility is not the norm. This is the downfall of many. If the problem is someone else, for things to change, the other person (or company, establishment, society) has to do it. That is outside one's own control.
Yet the blame game is what most of society seems to engage in and this is what is causing the downfall of so many.
Of course, Hive is just an microcosm of society at large. People have a number of opportunities here and they piss it away. How often do we see the posts of people announcing they are leaving because of (fill in the blank)? Well, have a good life. Since I came to Hive, I never worried about those people leaving. They have an opportunity and run away because of the actions of others.
For those who are relatively new, we would be remiss not to mention how things have changed. At the start, or shortly thereafter, there were few options. There was no Splinterlands, layer 2 tokens, or communities. There was Hive and that was it.
Now, there are all these options, more than any single person can keep up with. We have Splinterlands, PsyberX, Rising Star, CTP, Leofinance, Ragnarok, and SpkNetwork to just name a few. Within many of those there are other opportunities. Development is happening on a regular basis, creating even more opportunities.
Who knows where all of this will be in 5 years. I can guarantee you one thing: if you do not stick around, you will not find out.
Action
Repeatedly we discuss the idea of how each of us is a business on Hive. Since there is monetization for different actions we take, we are in the business world. Also, as things progress, DeFi is going to be an integral part of much of our digital experience. For this reason, something like Leofinance is crucial to teach people about investing, money management, and markets.
Here is the first lesson:
Don't get your investment or financial advice from Kim Kardashian or any other influencer (paid or otherwise).
Another suggestion: learn how to spot a pump and stay away from them unless you are agile enough to take advantage. If you lose money, it is your fault.
Those are on the house.
Many talk a great game but they really do not show up and produce. We see this throughout the business world. Most are total failures at their jobs, careers, and life in general. We see obesity rates climbing in developed countries to over 50%. Alcoholism and drug use is on the rise. Depression and the scripts written to combat that are on an exponential curve. Why?
We live in the easiest time in human history, at least in the developed world. Have you noticed all the people bitching about their lives or how bad whatever is the topic of the day on social media? Do you think these people step back and wonder what it was like 50 years ago before the smartphone and Internet?
Also, how many had to go out and kill their dinner?
Compared to 150 years ago, we are in the lap of luxury. Not even John D. Rockefeller had what most of us in the developed world do. Hell, even many developing countries have gadgets that JD never even dreamed of.
By the way, why do those people have that smartphone which allows them to whine on social media? Because Steve Jobs, and people like him, took a ton of action, slaving away on the project until it was complete.
The reality is most lack the discipline to be successful. Here is a saying that I picked up a few years ago that I try to apply:
Dreams into reality through discipline.
It takes discipline to take consistent action. This is true whether trying to lose weight, advance in one's career, become a better parent, or learn something extremely challenging.
None of this is going to occur without consistent action. Being haphazard is a path to failure.
Again, we see it on Hive. Have you ever noticed those people who show up once in a while? Do you remember who they are? Of course not. They are, for the most part, from our memories the second they are gone. We might think about then occasionally but the reality is, outta sight, outta mind.
And they wonder why they do not achieve a great deal of success on here. I wonder if they have any in other areas of their lives. Anyone in a long term relationship will tell you it takes a lot of work. Consistent action is required there or else you will find yourself on the outs.
There is another saying that I will leave you all with:
Successful people do not tell you what they are going to do. Instead they show you what they did.
If you want Hive and Leofinance to be a screaming success, it is up to each of us to take action.
Anyone can talk (type) a good game. However, only a handful will actually follow through with action.
Remember, this is blockchain and cryptocurrency. There is a lot of money on the line. Do you want a piece of it?
If so, best get busy building your business.
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I am doing my own part to be part of the future and I agree that you need to prove it with your own actions. Each one of those will also help the blockchain too.
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It's often about javing the guts to pull the trigger.
Being consistent and disciplined is hard when there are too many things you wanna do too.
I'm at that point now, where I find myself having to narrow down the amount of projects I have, so that I can focuse harder on one, complet it, and move on to the next.
Thanks for those words of wisdom!
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I had not thought about that but it is true that money is the main tool to obtain wealth so the ideal would be to invest both in #Hive and in #LeoFinance
Taking action shows the degree of efforts you have made to standout, to follow your heart into light you see coming your way.
And once you take this action with sincerity, it would benefit you without a lost.
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this post is really very nice, on the other hand you always write interesting articles. I believe you are a person to follow here on HIVE and to take as an example. You are a leader who performs really well. I also believe that today HIVE really has a lot to offer to both bloggers and gaming enthusiasts. but one of the most interesting things about HIVE is that HIVE transforms centralized information into decentralized information and here I have found so many interesting articles.
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I feel this is another bogus post. First of all you telling me a Ceo of one of the biggest corporations in the world can break all types of sec and federal rules, for all intent and purpose use market manipulation cause people to suffer and lose their hard earned money on a bullshit meme coin that even the founder himself didn't feel should exist and do what it did.
The founder himself made no money really on doge. he sits around on youtube begging for money because doge was suppose to be a joke like most of the meme coins. You see now why i don't respect most of you hive people?
The only reason i'm here is because i understand the importance of a currency that brings economic prosperity. Not a speculative device and i decided to allow every blockchain with free or nearly free transactions to be in our network. We can't scale billions of people if we stay on our own blockchain. So that's the only reaosn i'm here the rest of this is baloney.
You say kim kardashian is a bad person to take financial advice from. I think you wrong again. This lady has built a network on businesses of nearly billions of dollars. It's not Elon Musk or Kim Kardashian that are ignorant. It's the people who consume their goods and services that lack financial literacy and in both cases they most of the time offered good products and services with the exception of when it came to cryptocurrency. Which speaks more to the nature of cryptocurrency than anything else.
The rest of their products gave us good quality and service if i'm honest.
As far as people leaving this chain.. Again i stick around for the most basic but important concepts on hive because i can't believe the crypto space is full of the smartest dumb people. So incredibly dumb that something as simple as a wallet with a simple user id and easy ui's they can't grasp that. They got wallets like shitty ethereum metamask wallets.
So i stick around on hive not because hive gets alot right.. hive gets almost nothing right with the exception of the simplest things that i know will work for masses of people but hive is so dumb they will never know how to use their format properly to gain that success.
HIve would do well to focus on why people are leaving, lol. I don't know one system or platform that's not concerned about why people leave. Hive's departure ratio to it's turnover ratio could be so severe that you remain in a stagnant position. That's horrible.
Now someone like you, i'd imagine as long as you can gross $100 per month like most hive users you will be content with that. That's you congratulations.. THat means nothing to the new guy coming in who won't be staying.
So i don't have a dog in the fight because the purpose of a currency is to move and transact. i don't really need to setup a community or application in that sense anymore than bitcoin had to do that.Good tokenomics and enough of our crypto changing hands is really all that is needed it's velocity of money
And i further believe my money shouldn't be impacted by peoples opinions. That's dumb the purpose of money is that i can protect it from you.. Your attitude shouldn't control my money. THat's a bad money lol. So i don't want an app to be the focus of the control of my money in that way.
Also you keep confusing gadgets and technology for societal advancement. Maybe this example will make more sense seeming that you can't seem to understand this. In many depictions of dystopian futures. You always see this super advanced tech and most of the population living poorly. Now what' the connection of the technology and the qulaity of life for those people.
It's no connection they still live poor quality lives. Same way we do today. I can make a statement about how the food was so much better in 1885 than it is in 2022 giving me a higher quality of live. I can make a statement about how pre internet youth were more healthy because they actually went outside and played but now they stay on games all day and social media get no exercise and are in bad health.
Drug use is a by product as well of bad economic policies that create people like elon musk through the government choosing winners. That's another thing i'm sick of hearing from you people like you. Ideas like Elon Musk was such a genuis and he created all these successful products.
So how possible would it have been for Elon to accomplish most of the things he did without government money? Come on get out of town with these bullshit narratives of these people do all this stuff by themselves when capitalism picks winners and losers all the time. it's dishonest and shortsided either that or you're just too ignorant to even understand how this works.
Meanwhile the country of Bhutan is the happiest most healthy nation in the world and it can't even afford ot run itself. It depends on outside help. All i'm saying is Bhutan lives like people lived maybe 200-300 years ago and their quality of life on paper is better than technologically advanced nations. So your measuring is off because you just are using gdp which shows a lack of understanding of many of our global issues.
It's unfortunate because hive is a mimic culture of don't think follow the crowd. So it's hard to break out of that mindset. So the smart people that come in are just going to leave for the most part, this will continue until someone like me challenges the system and then only then maybe more people will stay.
Some will ignore this eventuality and be content with their $100 profit a month from hive. Which is fine. That won't even pay for my downtown parking per month but if that's okay with you all that's fine lol. If you want real change you gotta examine the system and break it apart.
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Hi @taskmaster4450le
Actually this is a trend that needs to be broken and we at hive and leofinance can do just that.
Creating quality content that is easy to understand by the common person and for this it needs to rank well on google.
Doing my bit to make sure hive and leofinance content reaches far and wide.
Have a nice day and keep sharing thought provoking ideas and content here :)
Re-hiving to increasing the reach
With HIVE, as with anything else, success comes with a hard work. Treating it as an "Internet magic money" you invest in November hoping for a Lambo before Christmas is likely going to end in tears.
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