Tonight’s message is straightforward — I simply want to talk to you about how to fully unlock your wealth fortune (财运) in the coming year.
This isn’t a long piece, but the middle and latter sections are critically important — they’re all concrete, actionable advice.
When you’ve finished reading, next year’s version of you will be grateful to two people: one is Master Chi — and the other is the you who is sitting quietly and reading this right now.
The big picture remains the same: unless something truly extraordinary happens, the next year or two will still require grinding through. Don’t expect a sudden turnaround.
Even so, you cannot let your spirit sink too low. Think of early spring — the chill may feel no different from the depths of winter, but beneath the surface, life is already stirring. Everything is slowly, quietly turning toward better.
So for the whole of 2023, I want you to get three big things right:
? Cultivate Your Inner Skills — I am absolutely convinced that 2023 is not a year to charge forward recklessly. Given the overall momentum, this coming Lunar New Year will almost certainly be the final breaking point for a great many businesses and investors who can no longer hold on.
The start of the year after the holiday will very likely be awkward and difficult. For all of 2023, our guiding principle should remain: steady and methodical.
After that, make sharpening your inner skills your one and only core objective.
This means spending this year doing a thorough audit of your weaknesses and dedicating yourself completely to filling those gaps.
Let me say this plainly: I am absolutely against you making “making money” your number-one goal this year. Not only does the current environment make it nearly impossible, but blind, frantic action will drain both your energy and your capital.
The most tragic thing in the world is this: you go through a thousand hardships, find a genuinely great opportunity — one that could lift you to the peak in a single move, and it’s straightforward — but you’ve run out of money.
And in conditions this harsh, reckless action is likely to bring all kinds of unnecessary trouble crashing down on you.
Instead of that, settle your mind and wait. Use this window to get your house in order — and be ready for the genuine recovery and relaunch that will come two or three years from now.
Don’t surrender just because everyone around you is deflating. Don’t follow the crowd into giving up.
I can tell you with full confidence: every person who is destined to prosper is playing a quiet, deep game. Don’t let the defeated looks fool you — behind closed doors, each of them is sharpening their edge, building reserves, ready to unleash when the moment comes.
They are all waiting — waiting for true spring to arrive.
And in the meantime, every single one of them is quietly cultivating their inner skills.
How do you cultivate inner skills?
First: study what works. Second: imitate it. Third: review and debrief. Fourth: correct and refine.
Strictly speaking, I have no grand demands for your coming year — if your career struggles, I understand completely.
I ask only one thing: from the very start of the new year, account for every hour of your free time and fill it with reading, side ventures, and meaningful connections.
Do this, and a single year of yours will be worth five of anyone else’s. Once you taste the results, you won’t be able to stop. From that point forward, the gap between you and ordinary people will keep widening — until you leave them behind entirely.
? Seize Your Opportunity — Whenever time allows, find a way — any way — to start a grounded, practical little side business.
I’ve said it before: any video or content-based social platform works well. And don’t even think about capital investment — none required, start to finish.
Use nothing but your own effort as your starting capital, and carve out a small, beautiful little business.
Again, don’t aim for profit at first. The goal is simple: accumulate one thousand genuine followers over the course of a year.
This is genuinely not a difficult target. As long as you’re not on-again off-again but instead learning and refining consistently, reaching it is only a matter of time.
Once you have that foundation of followers, your little business will start to run itself. Reputation builds on reputation, and the money will start flowing — slowly but steadily.
The key is: the moment you think of it, do it. No hesitation, no delay.
This doesn’t cost you a single coin. So why are you waiting?
Start sooner, hit your walls sooner, make your mistakes sooner, learn sooner, improve sooner, earn sooner.
Honestly — what exactly are you waiting for?
All you need is a clear personal brand: sincere, serious, and deep.
Keep refining your content. Aim to publish three or four updates a week. If you don’t know how, look at what others are doing and model it.
You’ll find that launching a side business actually happens surprisingly fast.
Above all: never, ever fall into the trap of “I’ll start once everything is perfectly in place.” That thinking is poison.
Look back at the personal growth articles I’ve written over the past two weeks — especially the comment sections. Nearly every one of them has a dozen or more readers saying how much encouragement and courage I gave them to finally get their side business off the ground.
In truth, all I gave them was a small nudge. The real courage — they found that themselves, in the doing.
Just three weeks ago, a reader from my community messaged me privately saying she had decided to start a neighborhood group-buy business — more than a year of zero income had left her overwhelmed with anxiety.
I told her: good — once your mind is made up, don’t delay. Right away — and I mean right away — pick a reliable group-buy platform, choose a few products your neighbors actually need, and start promoting them.
Your copy and images don’t need to be fancy. Keep it real, simple, and clear. Start with your own residential community group chat, and build from there, step by step.
And then?
Once you start, most things aren’t that hard. They start to fall into place naturally.
On her very first day, she earned 329 yuan. She came straight to me with the news, and told me that the moment she saw that number, something inside her settled. It had been so long since she’d seen money coming in.
So I encouraged her: Sister, always remember — great wealth depends on destiny, but everyday prosperity depends on diligence.
As a hardworking woman, the money you’re earning right now is money that lazy women are leaving on the table.
That 329 yuan represents the payoff from the social network you’ve built up over years of conversation and connection — the real value of an intangible asset you never thought to mine.
As long as you stay sincere and hardworking, countless more days of 329 yuan will find their way into your pocket.
Sure enough, three weeks on, her daily income runs between 200 and 350 yuan. It doesn’t sound like much — but multiply it by the number of days, and she has already far surpassed what an average office worker earns. Why wouldn’t you?
The truth is, the reason most people remain poor comes down to rigidity — not just laziness, but inertia. They never translate their ideas into action.
The result: no money, no opportunity.
What I can’t stand is the type who achieves nothing, yet still looks down on small businesses as beneath them and not worth the money.
The type who is nothing but an ordinary office worker, yet spends all day dreaming about some big investment that will make them rich once and for all.
I’m stunned by these people. To use a school analogy: they have the mind of a third-grader, but can’t wait to solve university-level calculus. The sickle is always sharpest against this kind of daydreaming fool.
Master Chi will not allow you to become that person. I want you grounded. I want you advancing steadily. I want you to earn your first thousand yuan — and then the next — before you ever talk about earning ten million.
That’s how wealth fortune works. Trickling streams are the root of great rivers of wealth.
? Reorganize Your Life — Over all these years, every person I’ve seen who struggled to get ahead shared one common flaw: they never learned to map out a strategic plan for themselves.
Many people reach their thirties or forties with careers still full of stumbles, and still don’t know where their talent lies, what their weaknesses are, what their strengths are, what opportunities suit them, or which stage is the right one for them to shine.
They still don’t understand why everything they try falls apart. Their lives are full of the same mistakes, repeated without awareness.
Tell me — isn’t that a kind of foolishness?
So what’s my advice? Simple: give yourself a “soft reset.”
A soft reset means aligning yourself with the current moment and doing a complete wipe of your life’s slate.
You don’t need to delete your contacts — but be absolutely firm: from now on, associate only with those who bring you genuine value and maintain a positive outlook on life.
You don’t need to wipe your phone — but be absolutely firm: put all games and entertainment aside, and keep only reading, learning, and apps that help your work.
You don’t need to quit your job — but be absolutely firm: shift yourself into a mode of seeing things through to completion, answering every question asked of you, habitually understanding the full picture, and making your superior’s needs your core focus. Whatever you were before — this is how you are from now on.
Why does a soft reset equal reorganizing your life?
Because over all these years, guiding people through Chinese metaphysics and helping many climb out of their lowest points, I’ve found that nothing is harder than untangling a life that’s become a knot of mess — and more often than not, it just can’t be untangled.
There are too many wrong answers. The old exam paper is so crossed out and smudged it can’t be corrected anymore.
So turn it over. Start a fresh sheet. Let your life begin again from scratch — the efficiency and clarity will be far better.
So let 2023 become your personal reset year. Detox, realign your fortune (运势), and draw a hard line between yourself and every person and thing holding back your growth.
Go all in: nothing new is built without breaking the old. Break out of the cocoon and be reborn.
Beyond that, lead with stability and make cultivation your highest pursuit.
Let 2023 become the turning point of your life. Cut away the bad luck, and plant the seeds of prosperity.