Attaining Stability & The Fear Of Poverty: Making The Ultimate Sacrifice

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Getting stability out of life is what everyone aims for. People want to work less and earn more from the beginning of their lives. Comfort is a state in the human life that's bought with endless risk and sacrifice, while the former is inevitable, sometimes the latter is only a matter of choice.

I used to tell people that the most underrated reason or motivation to do well in life is the fear of poverty and the limitation that is caused by scarcity.

However, I find it strange that the fear of poverty hardly motivates some people who feel they're down and out and dependent on the scraps they get daily to survive. But how does the fear of poverty work? In reality, poverty itself is only a word. You only experience it by being unable to afford a reasonable, not to talk of a comfortable life.

Seeing The Inevitability Of Monryt

Having money in life should be inevitable and this is because, money is the real reason why we don't just live, but make an impact or thrive. Leaving a house or an inheritance for one's next of kin is thriving and making an impact while living to just have a next of kin is just ordinary living.

A person's financial status is translational, this means that having means or no means (money) can influence the people around us negatively or positively and because this is hardly put into contention, people transfer poverty to those closest to them, making them even poorer than they are especially when they are no longer alive.

However, before a person can have the fear of poverty, they must have seen its impact and experienced the consequences and this is only achieved through a personal financial discipline.

The fear Of Risk & Its Consequences

One of the reasons why people are scared of risk isn't really because of the consequences, it's because they don't have the mental strength to oversee it. Another thing is, that taking risks sacrifices one's position of comfort. For one to have an opportunity of ROI,

they must firstly invest in a venture and before a person can raise capital for investment, they must have made some scale of preference, taking while forgoing some of the important things of life that could primarily give them instant financial gratification. While I was in school, I saved my feeding money to buy footwear at the end of the school term.

While others fed fat from their feeding money, I had to wait till 3 months to enjoy the gratification of all that times when I needed to underfeed myself to attain that savings goal. So this is a testament to the fact that not everyone can sacrifice their position of comfort, and the illusion of comfort is while people remain in the satisfaction of stagnancy.

Stagnancy isn't even a stable situation. For example, anyone who is comfortable with earning the same amount of money for 8 years is backwardly stagnation. This means they're not earning more, but they're paying more to keep up with the economic anomalies of living in this world.

So for a person to be stagnant at least they have to take two steps backward and two forward. This creates a negative balance. Stagnant people are not even poor like we feel they are. The biggest stage of backwardness is realizing you are poor but still, you can not conjure the motivation to come out of that poverty.

This is because simply being unable to afford physical enablement for some people isn't motivation enough. To others, poverty is a lifestyle that is inevitable and they feel powerless to tackle it, but this is just an excuse.

Tailored To Productivity?

Human life is very short and one's productive stage is limited to a certain age. This is why some people try to work throughout their youthful years than sit down to enjoy it while they're old. This mindset alone irrespective of how flawed it is can be technically brilliant.

This is because thinking of futuristic occurrences and possible consequences is a check for us. People need to train themselves to understand that poverty is not and should not be a way of life. This is why attaining comfort and stability despite how difficult it can be is important.

I believe anyone who strives for the sun can at least achieve the moon. While making sacrifices can seem detrimental or depriving, it's important to understand that the main reason why we make financial sacrifices like choosing to invest is to ensure a good life at least, in the nearest future.