To lead your life to financial success. Just two important things.

There's also the question of what constitutes success in life.

However, if we define "success" here, I'd like to focus on achieving financial freedom (a common one, lol).

Now, what exactly did people who have succeeded economically and financially do to achieve success in life?

Every day, there are countless people who want to achieve success in life somehow.

Yet, why is it that only a small fraction of them can achieve success in life?

Success in life is not a matter of luck or whim.

Certainly, there are some people who happened to seize success by luck.

However, most people seize success in life through their own efforts.

So, what kind of power is this?

There are two main reasons why people can achieve success in life.

The first is to work in a way that can be accumulated as assets.

Honestly, I think the number of people with zero savings, struggling just to eat every day, is increasing because no one teaches this in elementary school, junior high school, or the educational curriculum so far.

In fact, in the act of working in the world, there are ways of working that become valuable and ways that do not.

One is simply working.

It's just doing the work you're told to do by the company, without acquiring any particular skills or leaving anything tangible behind.

Certainly, you will get money to live day by day.

However, earning money this way means that if you leave the company once, you will return to zero again.

If you move to another company, without clearly demonstrable skills or achievements you can point to, you'll be in a situation where you can only talk about "I did this kind of work" at your previous job.

Your salary might even decrease, and before that, because you don't possess the ability to earn a high salary, you don't even have the means to get it.

From a work perspective, because everything you've built up and created has been taken by the company, there's absolutely nothing left behind.

On the other hand, there are also ways of working where things accumulate the more you do them.

That is an asset-building way of working.

For example, the web design skills I first acquired can be used without depending on a company.

The more you acquire and master them, the more you become a sought-after presence for society as a whole.

In other words, regardless of the company, the more you do, the more it "accumulates."

Moreover, with your past achievements, you can clearly prove your abilities.

However, if, as mentioned earlier, you simply don't accumulate any skills and just process company work, what would happen?

As also mentioned earlier, if you leave the company, everything is over.

Or, even if you are evaluated to some extent, you won't be evaluated enough to receive a high salary.

In short, it means it "hasn't accumulated."

It's the same even if it's not a skill.

For example, blogs also have asset value.

The more you continue, articles and past writings accumulate and rarely disappear.

If you can incorporate a monetization mechanism there, the structure for monetization will simply expand.

It rarely happens that everything returns to zero due to the will of a company or someone, or someone's decision.

Continuing a blog is also something that "accumulates."

The same goes for real estate and stocks.

Of course, if your aim is bad, you will rather incur losses, but if you are confident that the value will increase in the future, what you bought once will not only accumulate as is but will generate many times more new revenue.

Real estate and stocks are also things that 'accumulate' the more you engage with them.

And people who are successful in life definitely invest both their time and money only in things that 'accumulate'.

While ordinary people spend their time on things that don't accumulate, successful people invest their time and money in things that not only accumulate but also grow.

That's why they can achieve success in life and economic freedom.

First, if you want to succeed in life, it's important to change your mindset, identify a few things that accumulate, and change your way of working.

Second, it's simply to continue. Don't give up.

People who have succeeded in life actually blindly believe in something.

It's like 'I should spend my time here' or 'I will thoroughly see this through in this area'; they firmly dedicate their time to one single thing.

There is something called the 10,000-hour rule.

It's a rule that anything takes 10,000 hours to succeed.

For example, if you decide to start a blog from now on, and for 10,000 hours, you thoroughly think only about blogging and continue to write through daily trial and error, the probability of being able to live solely from blogging will greatly increase.

If you want to succeed in life, you must thoroughly dedicate your time to the idea of earning with this.

In a sense, the saying 'Even on a stone, three years' applies.

However, what I don't want you to misunderstand here is that it doesn't mean you should continue the same job for three years.

As I mentioned earlier, you must spend 10,000 hours on things that have asset value.

It's definitely not about working at a workplace, or diligently going to the company, or anything like that.

Something that accumulates the more you act.

The more you continue, the more you need to spend time on things where profits actually increase in a visible way.

That's why you can get closer to success in life.

Success in life is the amount of asset-generating things you have accumulated.

If you acquire a special skill and can make a living with that skill for life, or earn a lot, that can also be called an asset.

However, if you don't acquire any particular skills and endlessly work as told by the company, no matter how many 10,000 hours you spend there, it will not lead to success in life.

If it's something that accumulates in a visible, clear way, you will see that the more time you spend on it, success in life will visibly get closer.

Instead of spending time aimlessly, you need to have the awareness to invest 10,000 hours in the aforementioned asset-generating way of working.

Summary

I feel that Japan, as a whole, tends to vaguely perceive the idea of accumulating things, even small ones.

Since childhood, we have been told that continuation is important and accumulation is crucial.

However, no one teaches us in education why we shouldn't give up, why we must continue, or what the goal is.

They just vaguely say, 'Don't give up' or 'If you continue, you'll be rewarded someday'.

That's why they end up without grasping success in life.

Of course, as I mentioned at the beginning, setting aside what constitutes success in life, this is when resolving economic anxiety is equated with success in life.

If, instead of vaguely encouraging continuation, they could teach 'continuation' in a way that firmly imprints in our minds that 'if we accumulate in the future, it will become such great value and we can become free,' then there shouldn't be anyone with zero savings in Japan right now.

Everyone can obtain a passport to succeed in life.

Even while working, you should be able to accumulate something with asset value on your own and create your own income streams outside of your company.

Because life is long.

If you accumulate for even 5 years, everyone should be able to live a comfortable life with something of asset value.

As a result, it leads to success in life.

Certainly, accumulation is important, and continuation is important, but for some reason, it ends up as a vague, incomprehensible ideal like 'guts theory' or 'the spirit to persevere'.

Therefore, as a result, without understanding the meaning or value of 'continuation' or 'accumulation,' they cannot use it even when they enter society.

Most likely, the teachers themselves are teaching without recognizing the actual value of continuing or the value of perseverance.

Therefore, I am convinced that these two things: 'investing time in asset-generating things' and 'investing a minimum of 10,000 hours,' as my core principles, and thoroughly seeing them through, directly leads to success in life.

There is no doubt that it will be a key to leading a successful life economically.