I remember a meeting in one of my previous organisations that I worked with with a senior person in that organisation. She talked in analogies and used one that is useful to remember when we are caught up in the hustle and bustle of day-to-day life in our journey towards financial freedom.
The analogy was that of the perspective that one takes as we go physically higher into the air. When we take a flight out to another country, the airplane starts off at sea level on the tarmac. As it moves off the airport runway and flies into the air, it gains altitude and we as passengers in the airplane start to see Changi airport buildings, the surrounding sea shimmering in the Singapore sunlight.
As the airplane goes higher and higher, we start to see the islands of Indonesia or the plantations, towns and roads of Malaysia. The higher we fly up, the more we can make out the lay of the land as if it were a map that we were reading.
