Stepping Through

The difference between Saving and Investing is like Alice stepping through the looking glass. It is a completely different world. In the first, you may be “good with money”, but you are giving your money no time to breathe. Saving *for* something is still living hand to mouth. The money may work a little, half-heartedly, but it is on death row. Waiting to be reincarnated into a different thing. Investing is getting your money a real job. Real jobs take time. It takes 6 months to learn where the toilet is and who on your team is good at what they do. It likely takes more than 5 years to really feel like you have had a significant impact. Investing isn’t about Consumption. The pumping heart of investing is “Reinvestment”. Taking the profits and putting them to work too. Building. If you step through the mirror, you change from a consumer into a custodian.