When you’ve accumulated enough life experience, many things naturally command your respect — because even if you can’t fully explain the logic, there is a quiet, undeniable force behind them. Here are a few:
1. Don’t take the lazy route and fill your wardrobe with nothing but black, grey, and dark tones. If you pay close attention, you’ll notice that — outside of formal occasions — people of genuine wealth and standing tend to wear colors that are bright and expansive. Ask yourself why.
2. Many women deliberately chase the aesthetic of pale, cool-toned skin. But in reality, the “thin, pale, and delicate” type often burns brilliantly in youth, then faces a turbulent path ahead.
Regardless of gender: when the sun is out, soak it in. When nature has vitality to offer, absorb it. Don’t huddle indoors like a creature that can’t bear the light — that quietly drains your energy and dims your whole presence.
3. Steer clear of places that deplete you heavily. A bad environment has a very real and visible effect on your state of being.
For my part, I — Master Chi — never go to nighttime entertainment venues. The chaotic, murky atmosphere and the disordered crowds have nothing to do with the words “auspicious and harmonious.” It’s not a judgment against them. It simply offers nothing of value to me.
4. Keep your distance from people for whom nothing ever goes right and nothing ever succeeds. This isn’t cruelty — it’s respect for the natural order (the Dao).
Especially the type who appears to be working hard yet somehow keeps sliding downhill: don’t let compassion lead you to dive in and help with your own life as collateral. Some people genuinely carry a kind of misfortune — like a whirlpool, they’ll pull you under with them.
If you truly can’t bear to walk away entirely, offer financial help at most. But keep your day-to-day distance.
5. When you’re in the depths of a low point, don’t exhaust yourself in grief and rumination over your circumstances. The rise back up is coming — the way out of the pit exists.
Better to be worn out from doing things than hollowed out from suffering mentally. Each day: give everything when you’re awake, sleep deeply when you rest. Move in dense cycles — act, recover, review, launch again. It doesn’t take as long as you’d think before the low point is behind you.
Looking back, what felt like torment will reveal itself as curriculum, as lesson, as forge. Everything except a true disaster.
6. In any person’s life, even within the best life pattern (格局), the favorable stretch is roughly ten years. The difficult stretch — equally, about ten years.
Everything outside those windows — wealth or poverty, honor or hardship — is largely a product of your own hands. There’s no one else to blame.
Even when others harm you or betray you, on some level that outcome traces back to your own lack of clarity, your own unresolved softness.
So: becoming clear-eyed and becoming powerful — that is the only answer.
One more thing — next week’s fortune-activating phrase. Try saying it aloud in the comments, and watch for good things to arrive in the days that follow:
“May true wealth flow in from all eight directions; may blessings multiply ninefold. I wish myself and all of you — smooth sailing and good health in all things.”