If there is any hackneyed advice you have heard that is always workable, honest and real: It is pay yourself first, save what you can, and work hard.
I give that advice in this article and rub it in with this additional message, follow through no matter what.
For no matter how much you do indeed have temporary failure, the "success catch on" is around the corner, just like it was for Lincoln when he became President of the United States after many, many failures in his life.
This article details the ultimate way to pay yourself first.
Sure, it is always good and great to work smart as well as hard.
But there is an element of the purest intuitively positive belief needed for genuine success, even in the case of pursuing investments such as stocks and bonds.
I am not saying that intuition and all that will make you perfect, but whatever helps, does help.
Indeed, this can be a traditional matter of fact article without much emotion or honesty, but this is a well rounded article with emotion, honesty and traditional matter of fact content.
So, now to really get started: I do believe and know that a successful life approach is a balance of "reckless heroic cowboy" abandon and logical measured tact with intuitive shifting between both.
What I mean by "intuitive shifting" is doing and always endeavoring to do the right thing at the right time.
I am not saying "perfection", but I am saying great success rate and "that is about it".
With that, I can say that reality is a delicate balance of approaches and when you even start to disturb or get out of that balance, station up and check yourself then take the proper steps logically to ensure success.
Note, I said the word "success", not "perfection".
Perfection is a conceptual idea that works only as example, not actual reality.
Sure, I could make this a traditional "glossy" article that boasts perfection and total ease, but I would be a pure liar.
But to say that the concepts are simple to understand, and they are, would not be lying in any way, shape or form.
But I do know, no matter what, that it does have to be told like it is in order to be genuinely workable for success, not so much perfection.
So, in nature, some deviation and adaptation from the norm is logical, so it is in the matter of success.
So, that brings me to this statement: The only "perfect failure" in a genuine sense is a person that quits before there is a chance for success, and shuts down instead of persists for what they genuinely want.
Think about it, is that not the reality of the situation? Like selling a stock or cashing in a bond too early or too late.
Sure the present is cold, hard cash, but, with that, all things have to be considered in every genuine way, sense and form.
So, let me go into the role of the past before I go into the role of the future.
The past shows trends through the effects it has on others and your own mind, that is it.
The future is the ultimate offshoot of the present through those trends, that is it.
Sure, the statements are simple, but understanding them and applying them correctly will lead to your success and I have made simpler what all good books on finance make so complex seeming.
To my way of thinking, facts are simple, application can get a little more complex because of the natural myriad of results within the end of the application.
Indeed, like gravity and other natural laws, the facts never vary, but the results can and often do.
So, with that, I would like to say this: Sure, like a boat trip there are variable that make the course interesting, but as long as you get to your destination right, that does not matter.
What does matter is the skill and acuity those realities of the trip are handled with to keep everything working right during the trip so that you get to your destination right.
I did not mean "perfect", I meant right, whole and in one successful piece.
Sure, I could end this article here, but I do have a few more things about the subject to say: The ultimate commodity and "future" is self alertness when you think about it seriously and apply it all seriously.
If it was not, reality would "do anything" and natural laws such as gravity and energy would not work at all, and natural law would not be invariable in that sense.
The sense of conscious reality.
So, indeed, the point to this paragraph is that consciousness is the ultimate future and commodity in existence, all else is an off shoot.
That is it, that is what it comes down to.
Invest in yourself first and all else will be added.
Even the New Testament of the Holy Bible says that in the words of Jesus in The Gospel of Mark.
So, it comes down to this for me: A productive, honest, good consciousness for me is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Note: I did not use the word "perfect", but I did use the words productive, honest and good.
For, in the example just given is the key to ultimate good investment.
You must have the consciousness first and all else will be added through your choices, effort and honesty.
That is it.