1 — Know your BaZi (Four Pillars of Destiny) as early as possible. Understand your life’s trajectory, its advantages and its pitfalls. Someone who clearly knows their own destiny framework will spare themselves twenty years of wrong turns and dozens of dead ends compared to peers stumbling along in a fog.
2 — As you make your way through this world, there’s no need to win everyone’s approval — and no need to correct other people’s views. You only need to know that your own path is the right one. Once you’ve made something of yourself, those who once looked at you with cold contempt will be the first to smile and flatter.
3 — I, Master Chi, frequently advise younger readers: stop thinking that if you pour your whole heart into someone, they’ll appreciate it. Human nature is base — everyone is like this, without exception. Simply offering goodwill only feeds the other person’s greed. In the end, you’re the one who suffers. You must maintain a sense of boundaries — and of distance. Ironically, that’s what makes it easier to build genuinely mutual relationships.
4 — Especially in recent years, I’ve repeatedly warned readers: don’t casually share your good news and successes with the people around you. Keep it to yourself. Learn to hold things close to your chest.
And from a Chinese metaphysics perspective: once a large number of people harbor resentment and envy toward you, that collective force can manifest into reality and come back to strike you as misfortune.
5 — Stop spending your days trying to work your way into circles and build connections. Truly valuable contacts are sharp, discerning people — do you think you can just ride their coattails and siphon their resources? Not a chance.
Every time I analyze someone’s destiny framework, I speak plainly about the specific process of how they need to build their own capabilities. Your appearance, how you carry yourself in conversation, your wealth, your resources, your professional expertise, your ability to create emotional value — these are the tangible, real-world assets that actually get things done. These are your true chips in the game of life.
6 — Unless it’s a relationship you absolutely cannot cut, there is no reason to keep anyone in your life who brings you no benefit, no joy, no opportunity, no resources, and no doors to open.
My deepest realization in middle age is this: time and energy are genuinely too limited. Rather than managing a string of superficial acquaintances who are just going through the motions anyway, I’d rather focus entirely on getting real things done. I’ve lived this way for years now. The results have been excellent.
7 — The best reputation in this world isn’t built on who you know, or on some impressive-sounding background. What era do we think we’re living in? Everyone can drop a few names that sound impressive.
Come back to the essence of things: what concrete, real-world problems can you actually solve? As long as you don’t just talk big and blow smoke — as long as you can step in and powerfully handle a few real situations — that reputation will immediately attract wealth and resources.
8 — Don’t spend your days running with the salaried employee crowd, even if you are one yourself.
To be clear: I have absolutely no disrespect for salaried workers as a group. But objectively speaking, the inertia of that lifestyle almost inevitably produces a deeply conservative and narrow worldview, a lack of independent decision-making ability, and a strong tendency to simply follow the herd.
As a result, the major decisions made by people in this group are, with very high probability, slow, outdated, wrong, and short-sighted.
9 — Don’t think I said that to sting you. I don’t care about your feelings — I care about whether your inner understanding can actually improve.
Here’s the core point: pure clock-in, clock-out employment is extraordinarily effective at grinding down a person’s ambition and spark. By the time you realize it, it’s already too late.
Because the nature of a salaried job is to keep you locked inside a single, repetitive domain, doing the same high-frequency work over and over again.
Over time, you lose your big-picture thinking, your sense of logic, your capacity for decision-making. Once those are gone, you are destined for a lifetime trapped in the cycle of never truly getting ahead.
10 — Now, when I say this, I am absolutely not urging you to go start a company — and I certainly don’t want to see you foolishly pull out your life savings to make investments.
But you must find ways — perhaps a small online side hustle, or helping out a friend who runs a business — to broaden your income streams.
If that still doesn’t land, here’s a story: when the savanna turns cold and the herds of grazing animals thin out, even lions begin developing the ability to pick fruit and catch fish from the river. Perhaps the lion will never truly need those skills. But being prepared is always better than not.
11 — Let me ask you directly, right now: have you ever considered — if you lost the job you currently depend on, could you find a new source of income to sustain your life within six months?
Don’t dodge it. Don’t stall. Answer yourself. Immediately.
If you can’t think of an answer within thirty seconds, then the racing heart and cold sweat you feel are exactly what you’ve earned.
Fear exists for a reason. It’s your instincts ringing the alarm.
12 — Most important of all — and this is the most essential passage in this entire piece:
Your one and only daily goal is to make yourself a little more rational, a little sharper, a little more prosperous than you were yesterday.
If you feel lost right now, the best way to decompress is to start digging into the path forward in your main career, the ways to earn from a side income, and what you’re reading during your downtime.
I have never once seen anyone become more comfortable by becoming more idle. It’s always the people who balance rest with work — but who advance with unwavering steadiness — who ultimately achieve better lives and better peace of mind.
Don’t be afraid. At the heart of this life journey, everything comes down to one thing:
Who can let go of the mental noise sooner, and then walk each step forward with solid, grounded purpose.
13 — I rarely welcome readers with weak inner resolve to come to me for a destiny pattern analysis.
Because when I analyze a destiny framework, I work with the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel — thorough, incisive, and unflinching. No matter how hard the truth is to hear, I will say it directly.
I do this for one purpose only: so that after you understand your BaZi, you will have a clear picture of exactly how to walk each step that lies ahead.
So if you have made up your mind to stop drifting through 2025 in confusion, Master Chi has only two requirements of you:
First — build sufficient psychological readiness, because this will be a turning point in your life.