I can't believe this! I've made so many mistakes in life. I'm just way behind! Circumstances and events and people have held me back so much that I can't get ahead...
I can't believe this! I've made so many mistakes in life. I'm just way behind! Circumstances and events and people have held me back so much that I can't get ahead...
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Does that sound like you? Because that's exactly how I feel. It's time for a change. It's time for some self-accountability. What is self-accountability? Simple. It's not playing the blame game. It's holding myself responsible for the things I can do and releasing the rest. That's the best way to move forward. Today, I've declared that I've had enough. Enough lacking. Enough waiting around for some hero to save me. Enough trying to convince others of anything. I've just flat-out had...
ENOUGH!
It's time to say enough is enough when you've done what doesn't work for a while. It's time to do something that actually works instead. What I find works for me is building my own systems for success.
Do I wish I'd learned this sooner? Yep.
Do I wish I hadn't wasted my time with scammers and liars claiming to have the secrets, only to upsell me on more junk or fluff pieces that don't work? Absolutely.
You may call whatever I write here anything you wish, including fluff. But you paid zero to read this. There's not an advertisement in sight. Not even an ask for your raggedy e-mail address because I don't want it or need it. I got my own, thank you. Matter of fact, I have about four or five. So keep your e-mail addresses and keep your eyes glued to the words I write if that's what you like.
So I'm not one of those scammers, even though you may think this reads like one of those marketing ads. I'm joking around a little, okay? I'm not seriously mad or seriously trying to defend myself, but it doesn't read well in text.
Anyway, I hope that explains everything. Moving on.
Look, I've chosen a hard path. But this world - this society? It really left me no other choice. I mean, I ain't rolling over and just taking a bad hand at life without trying to improve in some way, shape, or form.
And guess what I learned? I've learned that if I can take whatever I have in my environment and use it to my advantage, no matter how ugly it may seem at first, no matter how useless it may seem to be on its own, then I can begin to slowly but surely build a better life for myself.
This website is not YOUR guide to a better life. In no way, shape, or form will I ever say or ever imply that your life can get better if you follow my journey. What works for me may make your life worse because, well, how you handle situations is different from how I handle situations. And I don't know you or your circumstances. Nor am I qualified to give professional advice. So that means I'm not your career guru, your financial guru, or any other kind of guru for you.
This website is also NOT a for-profit website - this is kinda like an online journal or blueprint for me. But it is accessible to the public - if you stumble upon it, then hopefully it can help you out or you find some value .in it of some kind. But nowhere will I ask you to purchase on this website. If I do, then I'll erase these words and explain that I've changed my mind, plain and simple. But I don't foresee that happening shortly. My vision for this website is not to be for-profit, but a guide to help me form systems for living my best life. So no, I won't make money from this website.
This website is also not a charity. I'm not trying to make it sound like I'm a nice guy giving you anything. I'm not. As far as I see it, I created a website, and somehow what I wrote resonated with you, and apparently, you keep coming back. That's what I think about what happens if you keep reading and returning to what I've written. And on a side note, I am a very for-profit guy because, well, we still need money to survive in this world. So, I'm building up my bank account and making money, just in other ways. Here, I don't want your money. I don't want your e-mail address. I won't bother you. You'll read this, and if you want more, you'll bookmark it on your favorites tab on your browser or something. If not, cool.
And why is it cool? Because this website isn't specifically meant for anyone but me. I'm writing this blog, and the words here are for me and my learning. I'm not so much concerned about an audience right now. I'm all about building myself up at this time. Think of it like this. You build a strong foundation before you add any other structures, right? You don't build a building without setting up a foundation. Well, I'm the foundation of anything I build, whether I want to build it to help people or just to help myself. So, as the foundation, I have to make sure I'm built up pretty strong and stable. This website is a foundational structure - something that can be built upon as long as it's stable.
So, we good? We know where I stand? We know where I'm coming from, and you know what to expect from this? Cool. Let's move on then.
Okay, this all starts with building a foundation. Before I can do anything else, I have to make sure I have a strong foundation to build on. I need something stable, something consistent, and something that won't go anywhere for a long, long time. The internet is forever, they say. So if the internet is going to be here a long time, then so will my words. So will the story of my journey.
Strategy and data sound fancy, but really, they're not. However, you can't have a strategy if you haven't collected enough data. And what is data? Just noise or information you get when you interact with stuff. So the data I'm collecting are the results of my interactions with things that I say will improve my life.
Say I wanna do some remote work. I'm interacting with a remote work platform when I apply for a job. If I get hired and do the job, then I'm interacting with the job and getting paid for it. Those are all interactions that give me data to work with. And those data points will help me answer questions. Now, I'm not talking about plotting things down on a graph or doing something fancy with the data. I'm merely keeping the data on record, in word form on the internet in the form of this blog, and archiving it here to observe, improve and build upon, and make better over time. So there's gonna be no fancy formulas or flashy graphs coming from me! This is pure, fundamental stuff written in the form of words.
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