No, I'm not an optometrist and this blog isn't about your physical eyesight. However, I do feel that using the principle understanding of how nearsightedness and farsightedness affects your ability to see correctly, physically, as a metaphor it will help you see and understand the principles of investing.
Ok, what is nearsightedness? Nearsightedness is when a person's vision is better up close than it is at a distance. In other words, the person can't see far. Many people suffer the same symptoms of nearsightedness when it comes to investing their money. They can't mentally see into the future, they don't believe anything unless they can see it now and up close. There are many people who suffer from nearsightedness and have never been diagnosed or treated. It is virtually impossible for a nearsighted person to ever achieve or prosper in anything, especially without treatment (glasses, contact lenses). It has been written that people suffer for a lack of vision. Investing in real estate, stocks, mutual funds, a business and even your future requires being able to see at a distance.
The investment world requires you to be able to see past what is current. Heck, a farmer has to be able to see past the seeds that he plants in order to produce fruits and vegetables. To live a life and not be diagnosed or treated for farsightedness is equally our bad.
Farsightedness is the opposite. It's when a person can see far but not up close. Many of us go looking and searching for things and stuff to make us happy, we search high and low, spend large amounts of money looking for something that God has already given us when all we have to do is look inside. The story of The Wizard of Oz was about Dorothy and the other characters being farsighted; still today, many of us can't see it. Many people say they need more, but have proven the inability to work with less.
All the truth and knowledge you could ever imagine, is and will ever be, buried deep inside you, all you have to do is look up close. Seek and I promise you, you will find!
Rob
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Robert, once again you're on point. This ties right into the point I'm trying to make with some of my friends and family, when I'm stressing the need for a serious budget. Some of them will need to make some serious sacrifices in their life styles in order to get where they'd like to be. However, what they fail to see is in doing so, those sacrifices are only temporary. Thanks for another timely post.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for keeping up and responding to the blog. I know the love you have for your family and friends is serious and true, but it’s pretty obvious that many people don’t really want to do better. Most people are not really motivated to change, they say one thing but do another. Truth is, short of bringing back the dead, it’s really impossible to want something bad enough and not get it. With that said, most people just like to hear themselves talk.