The 'Caution' Moments

My long ago experience - because it was fairly long ago now - of the 'run up' to actually making a really sizable amount of money, was slightly artificial because the first time around, I had already moved out of the circle of friends from University days.

In fact, most of them were still at University and I was in London City far away.

So there was literally no one around me of my own age when it became clear the really huge cheques ('checks' for Americans...) were clearing. I did have a (one) seasoned mentor around me though, and he was constantly on about not trying to 'pass the ball on without having caught it yet.'

Simple things, like acid phosphate
cherry soda.

There are other views about it, but I do personally agree with the approach.

We are at the 'caution moments' here.

Besides we are nowhere near anything Earth-shaking. Well, not on the financial front at least.

This Blog has thrived on a visual side exploiting 'lust-worthy' expensive things for no money at all.

We could, in theory, introduce even 'sponsored posts' featuring similar visual things - but for me, one problem is that it could, or would, provoke silly responses in some of our best supporters. Like, including, me too!

'Oh, I could just direct some cash over to there, and buy that thing.' Or 'Hey, I wish we just had one of those in our hands. It's only... 'x' dollars.'

So I've been plowing through the net, trying to find good-looking, non-provocative images to upload here.

...For example, Bill Smith, how many people do you and I both know, who, if you show them some people having fun at a barbecue - immediately go out and buy the whole butcher's window out and post pics on their FB page, with themselves in a brand new blue-striped apron, with exactly no one else around them and what TH do they do with all the steaks they are grilling?

Alpine Eagle Silver Ghost.
You can't buy it, so it's not
tempting anyone to spend.

Well we're kind of all like that at a level - a tendency that most of us try and keep in check as much as possible as much of the time as possible. The problem really creeps in there ready to pounce though, when you approach extraordinary money flow levels so that your 'normal' habituated reactions to basic challenges are no longer the prevailing contextual situation.

It's going to be the approach to the Christmas Season very soon.

A couple of pairs of reading socks, some decent mocha drinks, a couple of good books...

What more do you need?

You don't need to have your mind go out drifting about shiftlessly into the clutches of the expert commercial marketers, looking to throw chains around that mind and make it stick your hands into your pockets and hand over cash for things that will end up in that garage or backyard shed of yours which is already selling space to the mice at premium rates for free space.

You do not need that gold-plated bug-out bag for when Doomsday at last gets here.

Can we 'get there' however - to that sweet spot where the 'challenges' are going to be different?

Oh yes we can right now.

Brown sugar and melted butter ham...

We are 'in the channel' over here right now.

Not making any money from NFT's, not making really all that much from digital crypto, not making very much from selling books on Amazon/Kindle.

So, hopefully, no one at all will be able to 'see' where it is all at.

And that's a good thing, isn't it, Bill?

Because that same guy who buys out the butcher's shop would quickly steal the ideas - if he knew what they were - and mess everything up for everyone else. How does he stay afloat?

Not our problem.

When I first made my first huge returns, I was part of the groups here who wanted to go the American supplier route for the submarines being built down here - and that was more than forty years ago now - and we lost out to the Collins Class things which never worked anyway and killed some people during that whole sad and sorry saga. 

My mindset is looking that far ahead again. Even longer. And the world will not be the same place by then.

It will be somewhat the same place though. It will still be the correct thing to maintain some ballast in your tanks when you think you're capable of flying - or floating.

Being confident about the planning is one thing, being over-confident is a mistake. We shall, however, 'make it.' This is starting to appear very likely.