If your answer is invest and manage your money — sorry, wrong.
If your answer is treat yourself and spend freely — sorry, wrong again.
Let me be direct with you: after you earn your first pot of gold, the single most important thing you should do is hire a reliable, trustworthy domestic helper at a reasonable rate — someone you can fully entrust with your home.
When I say “domestic helper,” I don’t mean an occasional cleaner or hourly worker. I mean someone who takes over everything: all the household chores, caring for other family members, preparing meals, picking up the kids — a true “quasi-family member” who shoulders the full weight of daily life at home.
Why?
Because only then can you genuinely reclaim the best hours of each day. You pull your focus out of the endless tangle of trivial matters and pour every ounce of your energy into making money.
I regularly share this insight with the readers who come to me for destiny chart readings, especially women: in this life, never let yourself get buried in trivialities. A person consumed by too many daily chores is essentially shackled to poverty for life.
Look at how an ordinary person spends their day — it’s incredibly busy. Every single day is packed with cleaning the house, doing laundry, cooking meals, taking out the trash, picking up kids, family arguments, binge-watching shows, idle gossip… and on and on.
Don’t underestimate this pile of small tasks. Once they accumulate, they can effortlessly drain every last drop of your mental energy and focus.
And because you’re consumed by trivialities — which produce no meaningful output — the result is that you look busy every day, yet make no real progress, no real gains.
So why does wealth so often take flight the moment someone breaks free from domestic obligations — or simply stops paying attention to household minutiae? The answer is simple: anyone who has ever truly gotten a grip on their wealth path lives an extremely streamlined life. They spend most of their time resting and thinking, a moderate portion making concrete decisions, and only a small slice of their peak energy actually executing and achieving.
This is precisely why, over the course of my career, the countless ordinary readers I’ve helped achieve financial freedom — virtually every single one of them, literally every one — as soon as they had sufficient wealth, the first thing they did was hire one, sometimes two, reliable domestic helpers to cleanly handle all of life’s daily clutter.
This isn’t wasteful. This is a genuinely rational division of labor. It fully unleashes your abilities and your wealth path — and then you use a tiny fraction of your income to resolve the tasks that were never meant to occupy your mind in the first place.
This is how the path to wealth opens up. A virtuous cycle, self-sustaining and unending.
A few months ago, a middle-class housewife came to see me. Her family was comfortable — her husband gave her a generous household allowance — yet she was chronically unfulfilled, feeling day after day as though life had drained the spirit right out of her, though she couldn’t explain why.
A businesswoman friend had recommended she come to me to have her life pattern (格局) analyzed and her path clarified. I got straight to the point: your entire life has revolved around household trivialities, with no substantive accomplishments to show for it.
And the cruel truth about household chores is that no matter how thoroughly you handle them today, they return in full force tomorrow, the day after, the day after that — an endless black hole with no finish line.
So you are destined to feel progressively worse if you keep living this way. Not to mention the wealth opportunities embedded in your life pattern — they will slowly slip away, eventually lost for good.
Your most urgent task right now is to face this reality clearly. Stop letting your dedication to household tasks become a source of self-congratulation.
Otherwise, your life pattern and your destiny will be squandered — by your own hands.
I say this not to alarm you. I deeply admire a view attributed to Lu Xun: “Wasting another person’s time is as good as murder — and wasting your own is no different.”
His daily work was single-minded thinking and writing. Every second held value. When those moments were accumulated and invested in his life’s work, results and rewards followed inevitably.
It’s a very simple principle. Most people just don’t get it.
I want you to truly understand one thing: in this life, time is your most precious resource. Wherever you invest it, that is where it will bloom into results.
Invest it in trivialities, and people will come to see you as someone who handles trivialities well — and they will give you an endless supply of them. From that point on, you are trapped.
But if you follow your life pattern and invest your time in your true path, your future, your wealth path — it will yield an abundant harvest all the same.
I hope you take this to heart. Let’s both live by it.