The turn around is whenever your incomings rocket past your outgoings - the point is to focus on skills acquisition, not financial gain.

PS there is no such thing as an “upward” goal. People delude themselves all the time into thinking they have “forward” goals, when really all they have are DIFFERENT goals to the ones that preceded them. Do not make the mistake of thinking “more money” is further ahead of where you are now, it may not be.

To use your poker metaphor, if you go to the table and decide you can lose $300 wouldn’t you play it until you were out $300? You need to keep in mind the upward goal as well. When I play the pokies I go in with what I’m willing to lose, I play those coins but the money the machine pays back goes into another pocket. Do I walk out even at the end of the night? Not always, sometimes I’m up, sometimes I’m down but I never blew that entire $300 because I kept the profits instead of investing them into future losses.

If you can afford to lose/invest $300 but all your focus is on your investment then where is the turn around? Will those of us who work to lose money never make any? Building generations of skill but not looking at how to apply that skill for profit just creates a talented pensioner.

And you just gave me a good idea for a post.

Thx.