do you ever wonder what successful
people think when they look back the
road they've taken changes them you look
at them and you think you know them but
no they only show you a side of
themselves
the side that you can comprehend in
order to protect your reality like how a
parent might talk to a child the truth
is you don't know them the road to
success is a lonely and dark one
the path unlit there are no Maps no
shortcuts you will need to find the way
on your own there is no other way and
this is how it's always been
if you choose to walk the path you will
find a few willing to talk about it even
when you are lost in your most critical
moments when you are are in when you're
very dreams are on the line you are lost
in the darkness
other people will seem to only want to
talk about the latest TV shows sports
games politics and the endless debate
over what to have for lunch we're
surrounded by mediocrity contentment
most people will not want to hear it
though either not care be too jealous or
willfully refused to understand
their own failures this isn't their
dream after all and they want to share
in your success or your failure
those on the road may soon notice how
funny it is that people around them
continue to show off shiny new toys
designer clothing slightly above average
cars or some weekend outing
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but if you make it to the end you will
look back and realize it was all just
the so cheap cheap junk cheap
consumption these people have not
produced a single thing they are
consumers on the other side are the
successful ones those producing it is
not the shiny toy they're after but
rather something far more valuable time
early retirement legacy meaning this is
no longer about social status and it's
not about proving anything to anybody
this is about rising above that game
about fulfilling your potential it's
about freedom to live your life on your
terms
do you control your time or does your
employer why is it that on weekends
everyone seems so adamant about refusing
to do any work at all
they refuse to even touch work or talk
about it and if they do they expect to
be praised no their weekends belong to
them and it's a thing to be wasted on
the road you may find that it is the
first time you've ever done anything on
your own you'll begin to understand your
schooling was not your achievement your
grades
those were your parents accomplishment
and your job you've merely been
following instructions from people
who've been telling you what to do what
to study what project to work on this
whole time none of it was your own
initiative
none of it your own doing but when you
go out on your own that's when the real
game begins when the training wheels
come off when the mentors leave your
site when you cast off your teachers and
bosses and you step forward into the
world most people will never take that
first step
you'll discover the fragility of a dream
and how as soon as a dream is revealed
it seems to wither neither understood
nor welcomed not by friends not by
family not by the people closest in your
life so only at the end when you've
attained it that's when it is to be
revealed people will laugh and say it
was so easy for you it must have been
sheer luck you'll know the truth it was
not just luck if you've ever thought
yourself to be a confident person this
is when you realize that you and
everyone else has been faking it this
whole time because success is never
guaranteed to anybody
it isn't about confidence confidence
will lead you astray success is about
failing and failing hard over and over
again to the point where you've lost all
confidence in yourself and nobody
believes in you anymore
and it will be about whether you can get
back up
one day somewhere deep in the woods at a
time that you least expect opportunity
will peak it's rare head and when it
does you will feel the need to hesitate
it is the pool of mediocrity for you to
go back to your TV and couch I will tell
you just once to not look back to not
pull it back for this will be a
once-in-a-lifetime event keep your eyes
open
at times you will be on the edge of
despair at times the edge of hope but is
it ever a choice it's not about
motivation it's about an obsessive need
to see a distant idea either realized or
destroyed but nevertheless to see it
through you will find that most people
you've known to now people who you
thought you respected we're never really
adults never really mature there were
just overgrown children dressed in suits
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the road to success will be lonely and
dark the path unlit
but when you just begin to see that
faint light of success you will know
that you are near as a
it is darkest before the dawn and while
everyone else is busy climbing that one
overcrowded the mountain you know that
it is a false peak you will cross the
valley of darkness and emerge on the
other side to find his second peak
shrouded in the clouds
the real peak that few knew about a
mountain that goes far higher a place
fitting for your dreams
I know that that will not be the end it
would just be the beginning
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