Things I no longer tell a Zimbabwean, because they will not listen — I just watch. 🔥
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Stop buying luxury cars before you’ve built an asset portfolio that pays you while you sleep. A depreciating asset is not a flex, it’s a slow leak bro — a car depreciates fast.
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Stop the ad hoc holidays and “baecations” during your building years. That money doesn’t come back with interest — it comes back as regret. Build the base first, holiday later.
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Build homes, not monuments. Make them functional, cozy, beautiful — not a 3-storey shrine to your ego on land that could’ve housed three tenants paying you rent. Your primary residence is a liability, not an asset.
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Always live a few points behind your income. The gap is where wealth quietly grows.
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Your 20s, 30s and 40s are the build. It’s only in your 50s the report card comes out — it will be clear who was compounding and who was spending for flex (kufadza chaunga). By the time the 60s knock and it is retirement, it’s almost game over — unless you are Colonel Sanders or Ray Kroc.
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Stop competing with the guy next door — you don’t even know if he’s winning or drowning in debt. Run your own mile. Life isn’t a race, it’s a marathon with no spectators who matter. If you do good, people talk; if you mess up, they will still talk. Do you wangu.
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The moment a purchase is for an audience instead of a purpose, you’ve already lost the plot — and probably the money too. Imagine buying a car kuti “vandione” — that’s chibaharanzi LAST.
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Diversify before you decorate your life. Nobody’s asset column ever grew because the ceiling was higher.
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A title, a car, and a big house mean nothing to a bank when the income stops. Build what pays you, not what impresses people.
Love Rex
The National Dog
