Here’s a wacky fact: the higher a flat in a Vietnamese apartment block, the cheaper the flat.
Seems a bit odd
right?
I’m used to higher flats being more expensive. After all, that’s how it works in the UK.
You pay more for peace and quiet than for Stormzy blaring from a car radio.
You pay more so the top deck of the no.76 bus can’t peer through your bedroom window.
Perhaps you even pay more for some
“exclusivity”.
But that’s not how it works in Vietnam.
And when you dig into it, it makes sense.
Let me explain.
Owning a ground floor flat on the sweltering streets of Hanoi or Saigon means opportunities you won’t find if you’re five floors up.
Opportunities like opening a pho stall in your
kitchen…
Turning the pavement outside your flat into a parking lot for motorbikes…
Or running a silk dressing-gown shop from your front room.
In other words – the opportunity to start a business and make some extra dong.
And it’s all tax free. So if you want, you can make some really big dong.
No wonder ground floor digs in Vietnam go for a premium.
It flies in the face of the usual “rule” that higher flats = more expensive
flats.
See, a rule like this depends on one thing:
Context.
A rule cannot be a rule without knowing the context first.
Same thing with advice.
It’s like people who say you should have another job ready or have a proven side hustle before you quit your job.
This is good advice.
But you know what else is good
advice?
The exact opposite.
It all
depends on the context. Without the context, a rule or piece of advice is worthless.
It’s why blindly following rules
can take you on a merry dance.
In fact, following the rules could be the very reason you’re not achieving what you want to.
Like not getting that promotion…
Not finding that work/life balance you’d like …
Or not earning the sort of dong you want.
Instead, you need to take a step back and look at the context
first.
And this is where coaching comes in.
Coaching is all about working on the things which matter to you, in your context. Not someone else’s.
If
you’d like to find out more, the link's below.
Catch you tomorrow.
- Tom
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