Look on The Bright Side
Ariel Serber
Advocate for financial education, literacy, and independence. Advisory solutions and problem solving for businesses; risk management, business planning, building brand equity, capital raising and more.
Is it any wonder people feel no control? There's a ton of reasons to feel that way, all banging together at the same time like a million lottery balls...and then, like the Knicks you never come out on top, your name doesn't get called. So why bother, it's just gonna hurt in the end. Even if you are relatively high earning, it's never enough. Which can easily lead you to think you are not enough.
It's a stressfully distressing time, to say the least. And if it's tough now and costs of energyfoodhousingeducationcommutingdrinkingdrivingentertainingcomputingliving keep rising faster than wages...what's the point of waiting for retirement to be in crises,
let's get instant gratification on that sucker and yolo it out. We're down 30 at halftime, pack it up pack it in...we're buying now, who know or cares about paying later
If managers and business owners want to get the most from their people, they need to get how people are feeling...it's not just about being comfortable at home it's about being comfortable in life. Yes, early retirement might be a 'mistake' on a logical level
but we are not robots, people are people and they should feel comfortable going into a shop in Buffalo, a school in Uvalde, a medical office in Tulsa, a funeral....oh and a church in Iowa, a synagogue in______
It's all stress all the time and work is important but it's not who you are; you are not a bad person if you are not 'pursuing your passion' or 'loving every minute.' It's 100% fine if you just want to feel safe leaving and coming home - that's a baseline expectation...
Sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze and keeping people in dread sounds like a guarantee you will lose them...or you may be trying to lose some of them, which is fine but there will be collateral damage, certainly.
People need, and are deserving of support, whatever their level is - great quick listen from Harrison Kim of Pavestep:
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Every joke has nuggets of truth within:
Social security should not feel like a complicated math problem you need to pass an actuarial exam to figure out -
One tell of a system in failure is when it fails vast masses of a population but here we are
Oh well, cheer up, you know what they say?
Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this will help things turn out for the best
3x Founder | GTM Strategy + Fractional CMO for SaaS SMBs | → LinkedIn?? Top Voice and Creator I help B2B brands go from barely noticed to unignorable I Self Made Stories Podcast ??
2 年If anything, your article saddens me because it reinforces the fact that work is in crisis. I can't relate to any of what you wrote personally: as an entrepreneur, the game is different. The one thing I know for sure: each adult is in charge of their own life, money, career, and more, so no one should be counting on retirement funds, social security or salary. Not everyone is suited for entrepreneurship but everyone can create their own wealth. We live in exciting times.
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2 年Just finished the “WeCrashed” series, and I think one of the most poignant reminders from it that’s relevant to this sort of thing is that unicorns don’t actually exist, as creatures or as companies.
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2 年The bright side of living in Canada is that you get the highest amount of paid maternity leave in the world. What's this saying? ?? Loved your newsletter Ariel Serber