Like many people, it was not all smooth sailing for me. I had bad luck and experienced a lot. I once believed in fate, so I studied numerology. Unexpectedly, after learning, I became more motivated. The more I studied in depth, the more I believed in the meaning of hard work.
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A young woman is seeking a marriage test. The master tells her that there will be an opportunity to get married in a certain year, and she should seize it. After a long time, the young woman came back to report that she did meet a blind date that year. The man was interested in her, but she didn't like it. She hesitated and missed it. She is single now. The young woman told the Master that she knew a girl with the same horoscope, and she also met her marriage partner that year. They immediately got married and now they have children.
With the same horoscope, the fortune in life will be similar, and it will be good or bad at the same time. But the specific responses to good and bad luck vary from person to person. Differences in family, environment, feng shui, personal efforts and choices will lead to huge differences in life.
Another real case, two men with the same horoscope, one with a bachelor's degree and the other with a doctorate, also have much higher incomes. Ph.D.s work harder to improve themselves, and then at a certain critical moment, they get promoted, and the level becomes wider.
Destiny limits the starting point and upper limit of our lives. This is destiny. It is possible to artificially improve your destiny as long as the upper limit is not exceeded. Through hard work, we can approach the upper limit of fate and maximize the value of life.
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Let me talk about my own experience. After I graduated, I failed to get into a good company and joined a small private company. The boss often brainwashed us: "Young people should not look at money, the most important thing is growth."
As a fresh graduate, I was ignorant and stupid. If you are stupid, you will believe it, work diligently, and even take the initiative to do the dirty work. My boss praised me several times for "well done" and "you are the best", but he did not give me any material rewards. I stayed at that company for two years and my salary was the same as when I just graduated.
Later, I resigned and joined a startup company, working hard to complete the project under the conditions of insufficient manpower and insufficient budget. However, things went wrong, the company's capital chain was broken, the boss ran away, and I was owed two months' salary, which has not yet been repaid.
For the first time, I felt the cruelty of fate, and felt that all my hard work over the years was a joke. I work hard, and I continue to study and improve my skills after get off work, but what have I gained?
Disappointment is disappointment, life must go on. After being passively unemployed, I started looking for a job again. This time, I joined a financial company and my salary doubled. My friends said that I left and moved my shit to the right company, and my income suddenly became far away from theirs.
Yes, that year was indeed lucky. It was a relatively auspicious year among my ten years of bad luck. While I am glad that I have finally changed my fortune, I also know clearly that this is the result of my previous hard work. My experience in being independently responsible for projects in a startup company and my basic strength accumulated over the years convinced the interviewer that he sent me an offer on the same day.
If I had just muddle along before, I might have only received a small salary increase during the good years, but not like now, when I have the strength to join a big company and the confidence to ask the company to give me a high salary. I once doubted the meaning of hard work, but looking back now, it was always right to go all out.
Usually work hard and accumulate slowly, so that you can accumulate more and more in each critical period and constantly approach the upper limit of your destiny.
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Many people often lament that they are from the bottom and that no matter how hard they try, it is useless. For those who say this, ask yourself first: Have you really tried hard?
I have a friend, Jia, who believes in fate. He always says that his fate is not good and he lost at the starting line from the beginning. Jia comes from a worker-peasant family, has a college degree, and works as an administrative clerk in a private company. Her work is trivial and repetitive, with little technical content. Jia has been complaining about low wages. I suggested that she learn other skills and change careers as soon as possible. Jia said, how can I have time to study after work? In fact, she has time to watch Korean dramas and browse Taobao, but she has no time to study.
Another friend, Alice, also comes from a lower class background, has a master's degree in 985, and is an executive of a listed company. Alice is very busy at work and travels from time to time. The last time we met, Alice said that she was studying Japanese by herself and had passed the Japanese language test. I asked her, how did you learn Japanese when you are so busy? ?Alice? Answer, as long as you have time.
Some people use fatalism as an excuse to complain about their bad fate, bad background, and lack of talents, but they cannot see their own laziness and depravity. They only see the superior conditions of others, but they cannot see the silent efforts behind others. The horoscopes of these people are often out of the norm. They are either playful or unmotivated and just muddle along. Most of the qualified horoscopes are financial officials. They dare not relax under pressure and always want to improve themselves.
Li Ka-shing once revealed to "Southern Weekend" that no matter what time he goes to bed, he must get up after the alarm goes off at 5:59 in the morning. Then, listen to the news, play golf for an hour and a half, and then go to the office to work, as usual for decades.
When Shi Yuzhu started his business in advertising, he closed the door and wrote the marketing copy for a small page of a newspaper for 16 days. During the development journey, I bought several boxes of instant noodles, stayed away from home for several months, and just wrote the first version of the game.
He believes that the two most important qualities for entrepreneurs are: one is understanding, and the other is diligence and the ability to endure hardship.
The scariest thing is that people who are better than you work harder than you.
The class is solidifying, and it is difficult for a poor family to produce a noble son. This is an inevitable trend. I am in the financial industry and my experience is more direct. Many financial projects serve wealthy people, such as trusts and private banks. The same is true in the field of metaphysics. Rich people are more likely to meet good Feng Shui masters and have good Feng Shui. The rich are getting richer and richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. This is a fact.
Another cruel fact is that the only thing ordinary people can rely on is "hard work". If you don't work hard, you won't be able to keep your current class. Working hard may not necessarily lead to a salary increase, but if you don't work hard and hang around in the company, you will be fired soon and you will not even be able to pay the rent.
Hard work is only the minimum condition for success. Success requires understanding and luck. But if a person has neither understanding nor luck, and is unwilling to work hard, then he is completely useless.
Destiny determines the upper limit, and hard work determines the lower limit.
We cannot become Li Ka-shing, but through our own efforts, we can increase our wages and make our families live a better life. Isn't this the value of life?