Keep it up

[Ubermensch]

Hey.

Keep it up.

Keep it up, even if you've been chasing that dream of yours for a long time (especially then, actually. If you've been working hard, then you're probably close. Real close.) Keep it up.

If you started a few days or weeks ago, keep your head down. You have lots of work to do. Congratulations on starting. Keep it up.

If you started a few months ago - or years ago - perhaps you have immersed yourself in the attainment of your dream. Perhaps you eat, breathe and sleep this stuff. Perhaps you have insatiable dreams of driving a brand new Bugatti down the downtown streets of your favorite city.

Perhaps, even now, people around you doubt you. Perhaps they believe (and hope?) you will fail. Forget about them. They do not matter. You - and you alone - determine whether or not you will be successful. You have already committed to this journey, right? Then keep it up.

You will be tempted to take it easy at times. Relaxation and sleep are overrated. Money doesn't sleep, remember? So grab an energy shot, a cup of coffee, a stimulating tea - or just do it the old-fashioned way and drop down to do some pushups. Do whatever you have to do to keep planning, making connections, contacting the right people and making the right moves. Keep it up.

At times, you may experience periods of deep, dark self-doubt. Are you really capable of pulling this off? What if your parents, your friends, those you work with - perhaps even your significant other - don't believe you can do this? What should you do? Let me answer it this way. You should kill that voice in your head that makes you second guess yourself. Silence the four-letter words that curse dreams to failure: "can't" and "won't." Remember: This is war. If you won't fight for yourself, no one will. Start speaking to yourself in a positive way. And keep it up.

This is a war, and the sooner you begin acting accordingly, the sooner you will have a fighting chance of winning. And I have some bad news: Basically, it's you against the world. But here's the thing, though. You have to realize who you are. You need to stop being afraid to use your superpowers. They are there for a reason. Use them. Experiment. Attempt to drain "every ounce of the possible" from your abilities. Do this exercise: Close your eyes. Focus on what you want. Focus on how you will get it. Focus on how it will feel when you get it. Take no prisoners. This is war. Set goals. Make sure that they are timed. Clench your fists. Focus. Open your eyes. Ah, don't you see now? You against the world... is actually a fair fight. Keep it up.

Perhaps, now, you work around the clock. Perhaps you are on the brink of hitting it big. Perhaps you are about to strike oil. Perhaps you are about to put your name in Forbes. Perhaps you watched movies like Wall Street, Wall Street II, Boiler Room, Glengary Glenross, and you think... wow... so cool... and, perhaps every fiber of your being at this point is all indomitably focused on the attainment of your dreams.

Perhaps, at this point, you already have all of your contacts lined up. Your ideas are contractually protected. Now, it is only a matter of time before you strike. Take a deep breath. Think deeply about your resources, and how to preserve them. Reflect upon the strategies of war. Understand why entire nations have lost wars. Study King Alexander. Be inspired by Napolean. Lead like Genghis Kahn. And strike - As Sun-Tzu advises - like a thunderbolt!




And keep it up.

 

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[Sir Ingenious]

Good stuff.

 

[Ubermensch]

This world is full of negative people who will never enjoy the Fastlane. Maybe because they're not cut out for it. It's not necessarily a matter of intellect. An extremely talented scientist or inventor isn't guaranteed at all to hit the Fastlane.

It's a process, something that you get to from good-old-fashioned repetition, practice, and hard work. The daily results of your work will likely be invisible (at best) or incomprehensible (at worst) to a lot of people in your life. People will say moronic things like "oh, you're doing that? My cousin's doing that, too."

Some people think because they work a job where they speak to mid-level businessmen and vendors on a daily basis that they understand entrepreneurship and how to become successful.

Some people are so unconsciously afraid of and against the idea of you becoming successful that they will verbally show support for you and do everything with their actions to try to sabotage you.

This site is like a family of sorts. Lol. It can be dysfunctional, but many of us share some things in common. We want the dream (some to more extremes than others), and some of us are actually willing to fight and act to get it (again, some to more extremes than others).

Some people think that because they read the same books you read, or because they have positioned themselves to mooch off of and enjoy the wealth created by others, that they can understand you, your hustle and your vision enough to offer unsolicited advice, criticism and feedback on it.

Some people - and you should at least expect this to happen from your closest loved ones and so-called friends and allies - will be blind to your greatness. They'll see a local businessman who owns a slow-lane, United-States based business and think that's success. They'll offer you opportunities to work with their bummy friends with no marketable skills. They'll probably even mock you build the empire.

And then there comes the day when you're feasting on the souls of your enemies.

And then it's all over. Then the game is changed forever.