Own your mistakes be your own Boss
A true life story!
There are 2 reasons why people that want to make money are not making money.
Being able to wake up every day and enjoy that day without the need to go to a place that most of us hate and work for someone just so you could make them even richer is a dream, but many of us don’t have the necessary drive to make something for themself, to change that 1 thing that could make them happier and see life as not something that you just go through but to see it as beautiful moments, full of happiness and joy.
I remember my years before I said to myself that “my life sucks, I wish I could do something, I wish I didn’t had to worry about my bills, I wish I didn’t had to work” and trust me I’ve said those words many and many times before I actually started to do something about it, and I know for sure that many others are in the same position, looking and looking for an answer, looking for that one thing that can change them and give them the power to pursue their dreams.
I won’t be able to tell you which one is yours but I can give you a short life story that made me realize “Life is worth living for, money is everything”.
“Own your mistakes” is something that my mother used to tell me since I was kid, which has never been understood by a foolish child, but as I grew up one of my team leaders told be the same thing which triggered something.
I was the type of guy that liked to play video games , a total waste of time.So in that morning after finishing my shift and got home, I sat on my bed and thought about all the stuff (at least the ones that I remembered) where I did something wrong or haven’t done something wrong.I was in a pretty bad shape because to be honest that was the first time I cried in a really long time.
I’ve said to myself again that I needed to change something, I was in huge debt, was working maybe less than 30h per week which was not enough, just because I couldn’t stand that place, so every time there was a possibility to take time off I would, and that was unpaid.
I was 31 at the time my life was a total waste of time, had plenty of fun, didn’t had someone to come home to, nothing in bank account so in that morning as I was sitting in my bad my eyes opened.From that day one I was not just a poor guy, I was who I wanted to be.My mindset has changed, the idea that I’m going to wake up and feel this way ever day for the rest of my life it was enough to make me want to change something.
Got out of the bed, went to PC and researched about successful people, and one of things that got in my brain was a clip of Jim Carry saying: “I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber” and this quote got me going and I have done the same thing.
From that day on I was not poor anymore, I was rich, filthy rich, every day I would learn something, read something that would help me get even richer. So I’ve started learning trading, but there was an issue I just couldn’t take my mind out of that “I’m off, I should be working, it’s my free time”, so I made a schedule, simple right? I pretended to be a work for 2h every day.
It became 3h, 4h, I had nobody watching my back, it peace and quiet, I was not necessarily doing the work that I loved, but I was doing the work that would set me free without a boss blowing in the back of my neck.
Own your mistakes and don’t let them make you someone that you’re not.
To be continued…
