Oldandtired
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- #161
I, too, believed in what you say. And the more I believed it, the further from success I faded. AT the age of 23 I hit rock bottom.
I was brought up to believe that we are responsible for our own destiny....but my experiences were telling me other wise. I was starting to resent the employers...the wealthy....the successful. I was straying from my conservative values...and I had reason to....afterall, as hard as I worked, I was going backwards...and I finally hit the skids.
So there I was....sitting under the boardwalk on long island....not sure where my next meal was coming from....hating the worlkd for what they did to me.
And I saw a young man walking on the boardwalk. Struggling....sever limp.....twisted hand....noticebly struggling physically.
Yet he seemed happy. He sat down on a bench and I approcahed him. I was lonely and willing to talk to anyone at that point.
He seemed a bit nervous when I approcahed him...but I asked him if I can sit next to him and he did not resist.
I asked him why he looked so happy. He had just received word that his loan was approved and he was opening a restaurant.
That was my wake up call. God gave me all of the tools I needed for success, yet I was not successful. God gave David many tools, but also gave him reason to not strive for success...an excuse if you will......yet he was stricving for success.
I realized it was nothing but me holding me back....and within 5 years I sold my first company.
Civil engineering degree......you should be proud.....yet....you have already decided that you will not acheive the kind of success that you can...and the irony is...you are blaming others for this EVEN THOUGH your lack of success is only a theory and not reality.
Give yourself a fighting chance.......you can acheive success if you put your mind to it.....but if you read what you wrote...you already gave up.
Sorry to interfere...I had to say something.
I was brought up to believe that we are responsible for our own destiny....but my experiences were telling me other wise. I was starting to resent the employers...the wealthy....the successful. I was straying from my conservative values...and I had reason to....afterall, as hard as I worked, I was going backwards...and I finally hit the skids.
So there I was....sitting under the boardwalk on long island....not sure where my next meal was coming from....hating the worlkd for what they did to me.
And I saw a young man walking on the boardwalk. Struggling....sever limp.....twisted hand....noticebly struggling physically.
Yet he seemed happy. He sat down on a bench and I approcahed him. I was lonely and willing to talk to anyone at that point.
He seemed a bit nervous when I approcahed him...but I asked him if I can sit next to him and he did not resist.
I asked him why he looked so happy. He had just received word that his loan was approved and he was opening a restaurant.
That was my wake up call. God gave me all of the tools I needed for success, yet I was not successful. God gave David many tools, but also gave him reason to not strive for success...an excuse if you will......yet he was stricving for success.
I realized it was nothing but me holding me back....and within 5 years I sold my first company.
Civil engineering degree......you should be proud.....yet....you have already decided that you will not acheive the kind of success that you can...and the irony is...you are blaming others for this EVEN THOUGH your lack of success is only a theory and not reality.
Give yourself a fighting chance.......you can acheive success if you put your mind to it.....but if you read what you wrote...you already gave up.
Sorry to interfere...I had to say something.