I Thought I’d Never Be Able to Buy a Porsche

Looking back, I’ve never had such a strong success experience in my life. I was reasonably good at studying through elementary, middle, and high school, so I didn’t attend prep school or cram school for university entrance exams. I studied on my own and was able to enter a fairly competitive university.

After that, I had some small setbacks, but I was able to work happily as a member of society, produce results, be recognized by my company, and get raises. Things were going well until I got cocky and made a reckless challenge by starting a business at 27 without knowing much about it, which led to the biggest failure of my life.

During the 10 years after starting my business, my confidence completely collapsed (lol).

Of course, the experiences I gained during those 10 years are priceless and have become part of me and my assets, but my confidence was shattered to pieces, leaving a huge hole inside me.

When I started this Porsche blog two and a half years ago, I was at my lowest confidence. I wrote every day thinking, “No one will read this blog anyway.” (Maybe that relaxed attitude actually helped.) But after a while, the number of readers grew steadily, and I felt I had to take the blog more seriously. I started writing that “I want to buy a Porsche myself someday.”

But to be honest, even as I wrote that, I kept thinking, “There’s no way, I could never afford a Porsche.”

When I was in my twenties, even without enough income, I might have bought one on a whim and momentum, but after struggling financially post-startup, I didn’t have an ounce of courage to take that kind of risk.

So while writing this Porsche blog, I kept thinking that “buying a Porsche on my own is a distant, unreachable dream, way out of my league.” And time just passed by.

However, around last fall, my mindset began to change. Thanks to the blog’s growth and the many connections I made, I gradually started to think, “Maybe I could actually buy a Porsche someday.”

The blog’s growth was partly luck, but also thanks to my husband’s incredible support and the environment he’s created. Still, I’m happy and confident because I’ve put in the effort and faced it seriously, and the results are steadily coming.

Until now, my “confidence savings” was zero or even negative, but now it’s slowly growing, and I feel like I can grin a little when I look at the balance in my mental bankbook (lol).

Buying a Porsche by 40

Since starting the blog, meeting and interacting with many Porsche owners has brought a big change in me. I used to think “buying a Porsche is outrageous, a dream way out of reach,” but after spending time with people who have bought and replaced several Porsches, I started to mistakenly think, “Hey, maybe buying a Porsche isn’t that hard, maybe I can do it too.” lol

Also, I used to think “you have to pay for a Porsche in full cash,” so I thought “there’s no way I could ever pay 15 or 20 million yen in cash.” But learning that many Porsche owners buy theirs with loans made me think, “Oh, that’s about the monthly payment? If that’s the case, I could probably manage.”

All this was possible because I surrounded myself with Porsche owners and gained information and a sense of what’s possible. For me, it was basically:

“Building up small successes to regain confidence” and “immersing myself among Porsche owners” changed my mindset from ‘there’s no way I can buy a Porsche’ to ‘maybe I can buy one.’

I say that like I’m an expert, but I still haven’t bought a Porsche yet (-_-).

For now, I want to finish paying off my BMW quickly and then work hard to buy a Porsche next. One thing I’m sure of is:

To achieve your big goals, it’s important not to be bound by common sense, and on top of that, to learn and steadily apply the right methods and directions of effort from successful people.

So I want to keep learning a lot from my husband and other Porsche owners around me and keep pushing toward my goal of buying a Porsche myself.

I’m 37 now, almost 38, so hopefully I can buy one by 40. I’ll do my best!