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I just want to preface this by saying that this post is focused on myself more than a general topic and rambles into multiple topics.

Last week I purchased my first house. Naturally this placed a strain on my finances and time management, but I think in the end it has been a fantastic experience and would certainly reccommend it to those who are driven enough to work a lot.

There is no such thing as a house that is not a fixer-upper, and this one is no different, however it was previously remodeled (albeit poorly, but that's another story). Overall though, I would say this was a good idea provided that my future is certain for the next few years. In this very moment, I think it is fantastic because I no longer need to listen to loud roommates or share walls with neighbors or deal with arbitrary rules imposed by property managers.

After paying off the house as soon as I physically can, I intend to move and use this one as a rental.

I think the hardest part at the moment is that I have this whole house, but only myself to live there until I obtain a dog and significant other, neither of which may occur until later in 2020. This can lead to lonliness if I am not careful about managing my time and social activities. This, I predict, will be the hardest part for me to deal with as I am good at making friends, but utterly inexperienced with finding partners. As everything else goes, it will end up alright.

Part of the reason for obtaining the house in Iowa is that it is near to home, and as my parents age (especially my mother), it will be increasingly important for me to be available to aid in any health, legal, or other issues that may arise.

There is a phenomenon called The Pygmalion Effect which describes how what you believe can become reality, a self-fufilling prophecy of sorts. So when it comes to predicting the future, such as determining how long a relationship will last, or how well a business or your own health will be, often times you will be right because your actions will serve the prediction rather than the prediction predicting the actions. In this way, I now must be certain that my business will work when I want it to, that I will be in a stable relationship by the end of next year, and I will be in a better financial, mental, and physical state than I am at this time (not saying that currently I am not doing well - in fact I'd argue better than many of my peers - but simply relative to current me, I will be better).

The other day my friend asked me how I stayed so motivated, and I told him that it is because I have goals, and completely unobtainable goals, and that everything I do relates to those goals in some form or another. So buying the house allows me to establish a place to live and work stabally, having this website allows me to have a place to practice my technical skills, in turn having strong technical skills allows me to work in a well paying industry, whichin turn allows me to create larger projects (which snowballs), and the end goal is to have enough assets that I can travel anywhere and tell stories without a care.