The Unobtainable: A never ending road to success
Aim high and fail often. Setting the unreachable goal and chasing like a mad man is the price to success. Starting to feel the stress on my shoulders carrying a ton of weights dragging me down. That seems to be the price to pay. All those sleepless nights mindlessly calculating millions of ways to failure in the hope to find a slimmer of hope. Let me tell you, it is tough.
My mind is in overdrive. Even with a six figure income, it is nearly impossible to get ahead. My goal is $50,000 dollars in retirement for this year alone, standing by my $32,000 brand new Mazda CX-5 with a half a million dollar house behind me. That is my goal this year. It is laughable and near impossible to accomplish, yet attempted I try. After adding all my budgets including tax while excluding the house, I would have only saved 16 thousand dollars. Combining that with all my savings, it is not even close to the 20% down payment. Needless to say, I'm in a pickle.
I'm giving it all I got. With a semi-proven method of generating 45% return in stock this year, I started a brokerage account attempting to replicate. So far, there is only $300 dollars profit to my name. That is not even 1% ROI. After doing all the homework on reading annual/quarterly reports, listening to conference calls, scoping out competitors, piercing into international market and more, reality did not meet expectation in the short term. Starbucks is not budging higher. It stays flat. The hope of turning a quick and massive profit had eluded me. I'm no longer sure what I should do. Should I take my minuscule profit and run or wait it out? That is the thousand dollar question.
It is in my best interest to be grateful - be grateful for my discipline and being financially literate. I should be filled with joy on achieving a net worth 1x my current salary. Yet, the more you know, the less excuses you have. It is not enough or even close to enough. With housing prices jumping up two folds since 2012, I am not even close. With that being said, I must march onward to achieve the impossible, and to obtain the unobtainable. Wish me luck.
My mind is in overdrive. Even with a six figure income, it is nearly impossible to get ahead. My goal is $50,000 dollars in retirement for this year alone, standing by my $32,000 brand new Mazda CX-5 with a half a million dollar house behind me. That is my goal this year. It is laughable and near impossible to accomplish, yet attempted I try. After adding all my budgets including tax while excluding the house, I would have only saved 16 thousand dollars. Combining that with all my savings, it is not even close to the 20% down payment. Needless to say, I'm in a pickle.
I'm giving it all I got. With a semi-proven method of generating 45% return in stock this year, I started a brokerage account attempting to replicate. So far, there is only $300 dollars profit to my name. That is not even 1% ROI. After doing all the homework on reading annual/quarterly reports, listening to conference calls, scoping out competitors, piercing into international market and more, reality did not meet expectation in the short term. Starbucks is not budging higher. It stays flat. The hope of turning a quick and massive profit had eluded me. I'm no longer sure what I should do. Should I take my minuscule profit and run or wait it out? That is the thousand dollar question.
It is in my best interest to be grateful - be grateful for my discipline and being financially literate. I should be filled with joy on achieving a net worth 1x my current salary. Yet, the more you know, the less excuses you have. It is not enough or even close to enough. With housing prices jumping up two folds since 2012, I am not even close. With that being said, I must march onward to achieve the impossible, and to obtain the unobtainable. Wish me luck.
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