Recent days made me realize how happy I am and how important it is I never scaled my lifestyle to my net worth.

I've been in crypto a long time so naturally I've met quite a bunch of people that made good money along the years.

It's tempting to spend more when you make more and that's exactly what they did.

But most fail to realize that crypto or any investing market in general isn't a lineair process.

You can be making much for multiple months but also make close to nothing right after.

Even worse, incur losses as well sometimes. That's why you don't scale your lifestyle to the same extent your net worth rises sometimes.

Take $100k for example. When you make that in the span of 6 months you feel on top of the world. You start calculating and realize that's thee equivalent of close to $17k a month.

Whatever your end goal is, that's already a huge bonus on your life to start with.

Yet a fancy car and some increased spending for a couple of months can quickly erased that.

But you make close to $17k a month right? You can easily keep this up.

Yet you don't... Moments of "less optimal conditions" approach and you'll soon realize you are scrambling not to sell the remaining of your other crypto assets all of a sudden...

Even working at a 9-5 factory job is more than you did before all of a sudden as well.

Same example when you theoretically made more than a million.

If you played it smart you could have even retired for life and kept the ball rolling without ever needing to go work a regular job ever again.

(passive income, yield, real estate etc)

But because you scaled your lifestyle you'll quickly realize everything is gone after 5-10 years.

That Mustang, that Porsche, that lambo, that .... All have HUGE maintenance costs and the fuel it consumes is out of this world.

Those designer clothes and watches are cool and all but no other person even cares and when your money runs out you realize you would have rather sat at home or on the beach in total freedom with a stupid plastic ugly watch than own a Rolex at home you aren't even going to wear because you're stuffing boxes again at the factory or bringing coffee to your boss.

You would think all of this is common sense right?

Yet you would be surprised actually how VERY LITTLE amount of people in this space actually have been able to make more but did not scale their lifestyle to the same extent.

Always remind yourself that you are solely responsible for making sure you have something that lasts or see it come to an end.