{"id":850,"date":"2012-04-09T01:35:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T09:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2012-04-14T18:54:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T02:54:44","slug":"the-best-time-to-plant-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/the-best-time-to-plant-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The best time to plant a tree"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The time to prepare was the past, deal with things as they are today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a Chinese proverb that states, \u201cThe best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago\u2026\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve always liked this part of the proverb.\u00a0 To me, it says that sometimes, you really just need to shut up and deal with the circumstances at hand, and sometimes, regardless of what you want or how much you complain, you\u2019re just shit outta luck.\u00a0 However, this proverb can give us a lot to learn from.<\/p>\n

First and foremost, we learn that you can\u2019t change the past.\u00a0 Your current state is based on the preconditions that existed early in your life.\u00a0 These times have past, and cannot be changed.\u00a0 Everything that you are, do, and have in life was set in motion by your choices, luck, and environment earlier.\u00a0 In your current state, if you don\u2019t have enough money, it\u2019s because you didn\u2019t earn enough or spent too much in the past.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t make much money, it\u2019s because you didn\u2019t go to school, or if you did you chose the wrong major or took on too much debt.\u00a0 If you\u2019re overweight and in poor health, you likely didn\u2019t take care of yourself with preventative care and exercise in the past.\u00a0 If you have more kids than you can afford, you probably didn\u2019t plan enough before having sex, chose your mate poorly, or didn\u2019t take precautions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All these consequences of your current life come from the poor choices, luck, and environment of the past.\u00a0 The message here is that you can blame others, yourself or fate for your current circumstances, but likely your choices had the most influence.\u00a0 So stop complaining, as there\u2019s nothing you can do now to change your current state of being.<\/p>\n

What examining all this does is it gives us a clear message.\u00a0 The past sets the conditions and probability of success in the future.\u00a0 This is great news!\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because the present is the past of our future.\u00a0 Thus if in the future you\u2019d like to have more money, a better job, pay your bills on time, lose weight and be more health conscience, or anything else, you can start to set the conditions now to influence the probability of these events occurring in the future!\u00a0 The future you is truly in the hands of current you.\u00a0 Note that I did say probability.\u00a0 Luck and the environment will influence you and others as we travel forward in time, but you can heavily influence the odds in your favor.\u00a0 The longer you wait to start, the further in the future your desired results will be.<\/p>\n

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The future is based on the conditions of the present, effect the future<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Think of the future as a roulette wheel.\u00a0 The normal colors are red and black.\u00a0 Each time you do something positive, learn something, treat others nicely or poorly, work hard or sit around being lazy, you color this roulette wheel of the future.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say all the positive things you do let you color in a number on the wheel as green, that\u2019s good.\u00a0 Negative things erase a green number.\u00a0 You are still at the mercy of the wheel, but if you work hard, learn, plan and execute on your plan, you can get higher odds of life landing in a number that you want.<\/p>\n

What this ultimately means for you, is that the future you is primarily in your hands right now.\u00a0 If you want a comfy retirement in the future, you can choose the actions and decisions that will best position you for success.\u00a0 That may mean cutting expenses, getting another or a different job, or any number of other things, but they are mostly under your influence.\u00a0 You can only effect things from this moment forward, take advantage of this and shape the future that you want.<\/p>\n

The Chinese proverb I mentioned at the beginning, \u201cThe best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago\u2026\u201d continues, \u201c\u2026The second best time to plant a tree is today.\u201d\u00a0 Grab hold of your future and work toward getting what you want.\u00a0 Start today.<\/p>\n

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Readers, what are your experiences with dealing with things as they are?\u00a0 What are you starting to do today?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a Chinese proverb that states, \u201cThe best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago\u2026\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve always liked this part of the proverb.\u00a0 To me, it says that sometimes, you really just need to shut up and deal with the circumstances at hand, and sometimes, regardless of what you want or how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63,48],"tags":[46,66,33,37,68],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}