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Hey everyone. Hope you all do well. I thought I would write a little story about myself, so you guys and all the lurkers would hopefully get inspired. I realized I've never really wrote an introduction about myself so I'll try to do my best.
You know, almost all my life has been a constant strugggle. While in high school I always had a hard time dealing with the stress of performing well and having good grades. And I had social anxiety. In grade 3, my parents decided to send me to a private school because I wasn't doing very well and I was surounded by full of bums and people with drug problems. So it was poisonous to my well being and I wanted to change school. AD/HD made it difficult for me to concentrate, learn and retain information. But I was able to "succeed" and get a high school diploma despite all the motivation issues and the adhd thing. I always had a hard time getting up in the morning. I look and act like the devil when I wake up. And I had my first job at 16. Dishwashing in a very great italian restaurant. I was happy to earn some money for my personal expenses.
After finishing school, I was conditionned to think that the path to success was getting a major in something that interested me and wasting 5,6,7,8 years or more in a university. All those years for a piece paper. I didn't know that the fastlane was alive and possible at that time. So I registered for a program called 3d animation. All the universe of the video games really interested me so I gave it a shot. I played video games a lot until 3-4 am. Unhealthy, I know. But I lost interest after one year and a half and I dropped out.
The bad :
After that I took 3 months off and found another job in a french restaurant. Dishwashing again. I was 18 years old during that time. The first day I was working I knew this was not a good idea. Very stressful actually. 500 customers every evening. I wanted to quit the first day. But I stayed for 8 months until I couldn't take anymore. "I quit" I said. "It's killing me". 2 weeks after guess what. I was diagnosed with severe depression. But man I felt free like the air when I finally had the balls to resign that F*cking dead end job shit job. So during 2 years I couldn't do anything, I was very depressed and my sleep was very disturbed. Unfortunately, this was hereditary. I went to the hospital 6 times. I tried a lot of medication which F*cked me even more until my shrink prescribed me the magic pill. Suddenly, the depression was gone. I was very grateful and still am. I still take my antidepressant. After I immerged myself reading success and personal development books.
The ugly :
One day after a therapy session, I had an encounter with a fastlaner. There was a beautiful red ferrari. I thought exactly like Mj in his book. "Why don't you ask the guy what he does for a living"? So I waited. It was a funeral, so it could be long. Half an hour later, the guy comes. So I ask him the assassinate question : "what do you do"? Him : real estate. Only two words. Then the real estate thing really struck with me. Seminars, forums, books, networking. I made some contacts of course. And I engaged to get my real estate license. Another failure. I quit too. Like half of my colleagues/future co-workers. Shortly after another event came. Psychosis. To make it short, I was insane. I was so disturbed that I tried to kill myself with some pills. 13-14 pills if I remember correctly. I was in the street for 1 month until my parents understood it was enough. School of hard knocks. Even if I was broke I gave money to homeless people. Because I have a heart and I care about others. During those years I loved a girl, but not long ago she said me to go F*ck myself. I tried to not take it personnally, I laughed at it instead.
One quote : Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthousiam.
I love this quote.
The good :
This year I discovered my passion, my vocation, my life purpose. To be a musician. I played so much guitar that I was diagnosed with scoliosis.(curvature of the spine). I believe I played at leats 3000 hours. It hurts believe me. And of course being wealthy is my other goal. But I think health and happiness comes first. I want to be in the 1 %. I have a life coach, one of the best psychiatrist in my town and a family that is very empathetic and kind. And I'm happy despite the difficulties I'm facing each and every day. Even if I lost a lot of friends along the way.
I believe I attracted all those people consciously or unconsciously and those people and events helped me shape who I am. I have big dreams. One of them is owning a lamborghini and perhaps moving to Italy, or at least where the weather is hot and sunny. Arizona seems great. I want to escape the cold winter badly. Forever. And like a member said, "If people aren't laughing at your ideas, your dreams aren't big enough". Powerful. Thanks ungodly.
Let me tell you about myself:
I love the italian culture, the fast cars, the food, the people, the language, the art, the music, the vineyards, the countryside. Oh and the italian girls
. They are beautiful.
I love life. I like things like coffee, scotch, cigars, money, pool, music, hiking, tennis, golf, learning, art, cinematography, traveling, swimming, thai food, reading, singing, classic cars and photography.
I swear a lot because I am pissed very easily and I have the art of pissing people off.
I try to use the law of attraction most of the time and I find evidence of it sometimes. Things like synchronicities. Coincidences. See here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pb1NC-Tcbw
I know it works. Whether it manifest as people or events in your life.
And why do people want to get in the fastlane so fast?
Live your life, enjoy your 20's and let go of the past. Focus on what can you do next instead. I did a lot of mistakes, even though I am only 22 years old. And I noticed that nobody gives a shit about me, or you or anybody. Is it sad? I don't know but that's the way it is. What can you do?
You could be surprised. I'm sure my friends wouldn't even come to my funeral if I was dead tomorrow. Most of them are acquaintances.
Some life tips:
-Don't be afraid to ask and get out of your comfort zone. A lot of people will genuilely try to help you if you ask them.
-Seek the wisdom in older and wiser people. They have more life experiences and you can learn from their mistakes and try to consciously avoid their past mistakes.
- See the glass half-full instead of half-empty. Which translates to seeing the positive in any given situation instead of the negative. My dad always told me that.
-Behind every struggle there is an opportunity to grow
-Ignore judmental and negative people, they aren't even aware that they are wasting their energy on you. They are just jealous.
I still have a lot to learn about me and life and I hope I won't get discouraged with failures in the future.
Let me finish with a quote from a fictious character called Rocky Balboa:
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that! I'm always gonna love you, no matter what. No matter what happens. You're my son and you're my blood. You're the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, you ain't gonna have a life."
Wow. Just wow. Thanks for reading and have a wonderful weekend.
You know, almost all my life has been a constant strugggle. While in high school I always had a hard time dealing with the stress of performing well and having good grades. And I had social anxiety. In grade 3, my parents decided to send me to a private school because I wasn't doing very well and I was surounded by full of bums and people with drug problems. So it was poisonous to my well being and I wanted to change school. AD/HD made it difficult for me to concentrate, learn and retain information. But I was able to "succeed" and get a high school diploma despite all the motivation issues and the adhd thing. I always had a hard time getting up in the morning. I look and act like the devil when I wake up. And I had my first job at 16. Dishwashing in a very great italian restaurant. I was happy to earn some money for my personal expenses.
After finishing school, I was conditionned to think that the path to success was getting a major in something that interested me and wasting 5,6,7,8 years or more in a university. All those years for a piece paper. I didn't know that the fastlane was alive and possible at that time. So I registered for a program called 3d animation. All the universe of the video games really interested me so I gave it a shot. I played video games a lot until 3-4 am. Unhealthy, I know. But I lost interest after one year and a half and I dropped out.
The bad :
After that I took 3 months off and found another job in a french restaurant. Dishwashing again. I was 18 years old during that time. The first day I was working I knew this was not a good idea. Very stressful actually. 500 customers every evening. I wanted to quit the first day. But I stayed for 8 months until I couldn't take anymore. "I quit" I said. "It's killing me". 2 weeks after guess what. I was diagnosed with severe depression. But man I felt free like the air when I finally had the balls to resign that F*cking dead end job shit job. So during 2 years I couldn't do anything, I was very depressed and my sleep was very disturbed. Unfortunately, this was hereditary. I went to the hospital 6 times. I tried a lot of medication which F*cked me even more until my shrink prescribed me the magic pill. Suddenly, the depression was gone. I was very grateful and still am. I still take my antidepressant. After I immerged myself reading success and personal development books.
The ugly :
One day after a therapy session, I had an encounter with a fastlaner. There was a beautiful red ferrari. I thought exactly like Mj in his book. "Why don't you ask the guy what he does for a living"? So I waited. It was a funeral, so it could be long. Half an hour later, the guy comes. So I ask him the assassinate question : "what do you do"? Him : real estate. Only two words. Then the real estate thing really struck with me. Seminars, forums, books, networking. I made some contacts of course. And I engaged to get my real estate license. Another failure. I quit too. Like half of my colleagues/future co-workers. Shortly after another event came. Psychosis. To make it short, I was insane. I was so disturbed that I tried to kill myself with some pills. 13-14 pills if I remember correctly. I was in the street for 1 month until my parents understood it was enough. School of hard knocks. Even if I was broke I gave money to homeless people. Because I have a heart and I care about others. During those years I loved a girl, but not long ago she said me to go F*ck myself. I tried to not take it personnally, I laughed at it instead.
One quote : Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthousiam.
I love this quote.
The good :
This year I discovered my passion, my vocation, my life purpose. To be a musician. I played so much guitar that I was diagnosed with scoliosis.(curvature of the spine). I believe I played at leats 3000 hours. It hurts believe me. And of course being wealthy is my other goal. But I think health and happiness comes first. I want to be in the 1 %. I have a life coach, one of the best psychiatrist in my town and a family that is very empathetic and kind. And I'm happy despite the difficulties I'm facing each and every day. Even if I lost a lot of friends along the way.
I believe I attracted all those people consciously or unconsciously and those people and events helped me shape who I am. I have big dreams. One of them is owning a lamborghini and perhaps moving to Italy, or at least where the weather is hot and sunny. Arizona seems great. I want to escape the cold winter badly. Forever. And like a member said, "If people aren't laughing at your ideas, your dreams aren't big enough". Powerful. Thanks ungodly.
Let me tell you about myself:
I love the italian culture, the fast cars, the food, the people, the language, the art, the music, the vineyards, the countryside. Oh and the italian girls
. They are beautiful.I love life. I like things like coffee, scotch, cigars, money, pool, music, hiking, tennis, golf, learning, art, cinematography, traveling, swimming, thai food, reading, singing, classic cars and photography.
I swear a lot because I am pissed very easily and I have the art of pissing people off.
I try to use the law of attraction most of the time and I find evidence of it sometimes. Things like synchronicities. Coincidences. See here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pb1NC-Tcbw
I know it works. Whether it manifest as people or events in your life.
And why do people want to get in the fastlane so fast?
Live your life, enjoy your 20's and let go of the past. Focus on what can you do next instead. I did a lot of mistakes, even though I am only 22 years old. And I noticed that nobody gives a shit about me, or you or anybody. Is it sad? I don't know but that's the way it is. What can you do?
You could be surprised. I'm sure my friends wouldn't even come to my funeral if I was dead tomorrow. Most of them are acquaintances.
Some life tips:
-Don't be afraid to ask and get out of your comfort zone. A lot of people will genuilely try to help you if you ask them.
-Seek the wisdom in older and wiser people. They have more life experiences and you can learn from their mistakes and try to consciously avoid their past mistakes.
- See the glass half-full instead of half-empty. Which translates to seeing the positive in any given situation instead of the negative. My dad always told me that.
-Behind every struggle there is an opportunity to grow
-Ignore judmental and negative people, they aren't even aware that they are wasting their energy on you. They are just jealous.
I still have a lot to learn about me and life and I hope I won't get discouraged with failures in the future.
Let me finish with a quote from a fictious character called Rocky Balboa:
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that! I'm always gonna love you, no matter what. No matter what happens. You're my son and you're my blood. You're the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, you ain't gonna have a life."
Wow. Just wow. Thanks for reading and have a wonderful weekend.
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