Mind Your Own Business

     Hater is a widely used term in our society. To have a hater means that someone is either envious of you or plainly does not approve of, like, or support you. Simply scroll down your Facebook page and you’ll find memes addressing the hateration. But there’s a catch to hateration: Both parties lose big. Both parties squander opportunity.

     Personal finance, investing, and business require focused energy. Success in each requires strategy, discipline, and action. It’s a basic principle that the financially educated simply don’t have time to entertain haters. The thought of hateration may arise in very brief passing, but for investors 99.9% of attention is centered on entertaining money.

     A hater that is fixated on someone else’s achievements lacks a purpose. In other words, it is impossible to mind their business because there is no business to mind. This is terribly flawed because every one of us has something to bring to the table. It’s a matter of finding what that something is and developing it. Stones shine after being polished.

     The hated, the target of the hater’s ire, risks the possibility of wasted opportunity. Consider the following. If 50% of a person’s existence centers on addressing an adversary’s opinion, any prospects of financial elevation goes to shambles. The hater and the hated are moving together in a tango to nowhere.

     A word of advice is to mind your own business. It’s your business. You’ve established your goals. You’ve developed your strategy. Put it into action. Entertain your money.