“My goal is to buy a house before the age of 30, and then retire at the age of 35!” Zoey Zoey, a self-media entrepreneur, said in a shy and gentle tone, but her words were full of confidence. When I was in the night club at the university, I started to work and travel. After I left the society, I continued this pattern. Then I moved to the United States. I just handed over the house at the end of August this year. Everything is going according to plan, and at only 29 years old, she has already lived out the retirement that many people dream of.
Worked 7 days a week and worked hard to open source
With a background in design, Zoey is the founder of “Ideal Life Design” and the host of the Podcast show “The Pantry”, as well as a published author. Since 2018, he has been operating a personal brand, and created a blog and podcast to share topics such as remote work, self-growth and brand management. So far, the show has accumulated 6-digit listeners, IG has nearly 20,000 fans, and has mentored more than 3,000 people. student.
To have today’s results, in fact, Zoey has also stumbled and groped for a while. Back then, online courses and knowledge products were not as prosperous as they are now, but she, who has been working remotely, observed the trend of “knowledge realization” very early. Without too many precedents to follow, she didn’t think too much, and fell into it.
At the beginning, Zoey also had a long-distance full-time job as a Korean businessman. In his spare time, he would also undertake design projects. On the weekends, he devoted himself to self-media management. During the period, he continued to learn digital marketing skills. He lived like this with almost no vacation. life for two years.
Build products to make money with knowledge and expertise
“I always thought that as long as I worked hard, I would have more money, right?” However, Zoey gradually realized that exchanging labor and time for money won’t work in the long run, not to mention that the body can’t handle it at all, and time is even more difficult. limited. Unless she productizes herself, or develops a product, she can only stay at this stage forever.
So she decided to combine her design major with her personal brand management experience to create two courses.the first is Brand Your Lifeteaches students how to build a personal brand and monetization model from 0 to 1; the second course is Dream to Goaltakes the 5 steps of “design thinking” as the core, applies it to life planning and goal execution, and leads everyone to find an execution strategy that suits them.
Over the years, Zoey has not only successfully found his own business model, but has also helped many people achieve their stage goals. She was very impressed. A couple once said they wanted to move to Bali following retirement to find local friends. Originally, this was just a sharing in class. I didn’t expect to see them in more than a month. After negotiating for a long-term part-time job, I am regarding to leave for Bali to settle down and implement my retirement plan early.
Early retirement starts with thinking regarding life design
“When it comes to early retirement and dreams, many people think it’s far away. But when you think regarding it systematically and disassemble tasks, you will find that many things can be done first. It is not as difficult as you think.” Zoey Say.
In order to achieve the expectation of retirement at the age of 35, Zoey is now starting from reducing the number of working days a week to 4 days of practice, and slowly shifting the focus of life from work to life; for investment and financial management, in addition to regular investment in Taiwan and US stocks, she and her husband, This year, it has also changed from a renter to a homebuyer. It is expected that he will continue to study real estate investment, live in for a period of time before subletting, and then sell it following 5 years.
When it comes to what life will look like following retirement, Zoey’s imagination is surprisingly plain. She hopes to spend 1/3 of the time each year returning to Taiwan to accompany her family and traveling to neighboring countries; the other 1/3 is living a modern version with her husband in the United States. Li Ziqi’s life has a small vegetable garden of her own to grow vegetables and raise chickens; as for the rest of the time, she will continue to create and teach.
It’s more like a state of “retiring and never resting”. Zoey believes that it is a very fulfilling thing to combine interest with bread and give full play to one’s talents and values. Finally, she also encourages everyone to think regarding how to further add value to their professional skills, or connect their interests with them, and start trying and organizing now, maybe “retirement life will be closer than you think!”
Further reading
Yahoo 2022 Retirement Finance Feature
“I don’t want to have no choice in life!” Youtuber Li Xun3
How much is enough for retirement? Yahoo’s latest survey: 15.712 million yuan to be at ease
