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I've been fascinated by the subject for the last few years, and have constantly revised and upgraded my approach to this.

❓ 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙪𝙥𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙨?

No, it doesn't require a medical team 😅

Here's how I currently go about it 👇

💥 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲.

First I must accept responsibility for making this happen no matter what.

I already know how creative my frontal cortex is going to get with avoiding it.

Non-negotiable means it gets done, regardless of circumstances or conditions.

💥 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝟯 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁, 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗳 𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆.

Something I learned, having done the #75hard challenge (created by Andy Frisella) twice, and currently doing it again.

It takes time for the neural pathways in your brain to become ingrained and the habit to start taking hold.

Challenging yourself to do the habit for 2-3 months straight, no cheat days, gamifies the experience and helps the process along.

💥 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗹𝘆 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝟯 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻.

The last 2 times I completed the 75 Hard Challenge the habits did not last.

A few months went by, and I started slipping away from those habits.

I believe this happened because, when doing the challenge, I never intended to keep those habits long-term.

Finding the positive change the habits bring my life has helped me change that approach to thinking of the big picture.

💥 𝗜 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁 ��𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲'𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲.

The more clear my life's higher purpose becomes, the easier it becomes to manage habits.

If they don't serve my higher purpose, it's nearly impossible to build them, but if they do, it's nearly impossible to turn me away from them.

This concept becomes quite obvious toward the end of The E Myth by Michael Gerber.

After all, life becomes quite the burden without purpose, but have you seen what purpose-driven people can achieve?? 🚀

❓ 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙪𝙥𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙨?

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Idk who needs to read this, but;

🧠 Your past is in your head.

💪 Your future is in your hands.

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🥽 Choose your focus.

"If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges." ~Pat Riley

(Pat Riley is President of the Miami Heat, and their former coach)

Some people think positive people are so because they live a good life, but the truth is, they live a good life because they've chosen to look at life through a positive lens.

I've long been fond of this quote:

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖,

𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒕.

🥽 What lens do you look at life through?

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Here's a little secret I've discovered in entrepreneurship 🤫

This will give you an edge if you internalize it...

I'll preface it by making a couple of points:

📌 The USA is rated 91.6 out of 100 by the World Bank for ease of starting a business.

📌 In 2020, 4.35 million new business applications were submitted in the USA.

📌 According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 20% of small businesses fail within year 1.

By the end of their fifth year, roughly 50% of small businesses have faltered.

After 10 years, only around a third of businesses have survived.

📌 @yelp noted this year that 41% of all business closures on their site were permanent.

𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴??

Because for all the reasons @google will give you on why businesses fail, the truth is much deeper and simpler.

The truth is also the secret to success in any endeavour.

𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝗡𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲'𝘀

When I discovered this, it changed my life.

🧬 The rule is simple:

If you make something a non-negotiable in your life, you will have it in your life.

Over the last handful of years, I've hosted and networked with thousands, of entrepreneurs and business owners.

During this time I also interviewed and learned from a couple hundred of the most successful people I could pull a meeting out of.

I'll repeat the rule.

💠 Internalize it!

⛸️ Realize that most entrepreneurs skate by with no real non-negotiable goals. That's why most fail.

Here's the rule again:

🧬 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

Alright, I'm back to work.

Unleash your inner lion 🦁

Power on 🚀

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🦁 The older I get, the better I understand that

It's OK to live a life that others don't understand.

We're are not all the same.

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🗒️ 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗼-𝗱𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁?

I ask because I want to share a secret...

but before I get to the secret, bear with me.

We all have things to do.

The average adult is always "busy" with one thing or another...

Being busy is one thing, however,

producing a result of some sort,

that's a whole nother matter.

Ask most people what they want in life,

and they either don't know,

or they've convinced themselves they know,

but they really have no clearly defined answer.

Achieving something, anything, in life

isn't rocket science 🚀

Our brains are funny though.

We get all screwy when someone gives us an easy path to a successful outcome of some sort.

💬 "𝑰𝒇 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆..."

I'm sure you've heard that line before.

Whatever success you're focusing on,

be it a small goal for today,

a 10 year vision,

or a legacy you want to leave behind,

I'm about to give you the secret to making that goal a reality.

𝗕𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱.

Your brain is going to get all screwy with you when you read this, because it doesn't like super-simple facts.

You'll find yourself thinking at least one of these:

💭 Duh, I know this

💭 Sure, but...

💭 You don't understand...

All of these thoughts are your brain putting this secret into a drawer never to be utilized.

Alright, here it is;

When you look at the macro, things seem really complex.

💸 Generating a million dollars a year

🗺️ Making a positive change in the world

🚩 Owning hundreds of acres of land

These are some of my personal goals.

Goals that seemed impossible once.

They seemed impossible, because I was thinking about the macro, the big picture, the picture I wanted to paint, but had no idea how to.

Then I started looking at the micro,

and I'll give you some examples.

💸 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿

If I sell X service for X dollars a month,

how many clients do I need annually?

🗺️ 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱

If I help 1,000 people with X issue,

and they each help 1,000 others,

who then help 1,000 others,

I've impacted 1 billion people.

🚩 𝗢𝘄𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱

What does the land I want cost?

I need to put aside X dollars monthly

to buy this land by X time.

Once you look at the micro,

your macro becomes a game!

From there, you keep breaking it down, working backwards, until you have a roadmap to your goal.

🏎️ Now you need to follow the directions you've created and just keep driving forward.

So I ask again my friend,

🗒️ 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗼-𝗱𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁?

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👁️‍🗨️ 𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚, 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

At the end of the day, this is a fact.

People love to complain about

🗯️ Facebook this

🗯️ Instagram that

🗯️ Have you heard, Twitter...

... all using the very platforms they are so disgusted with!

🛠️ Social media platforms are tools.

Use them as such!

💸 My team has made clients thousands a day off of social media!

It's fun and all to post your pictures and videos

but if the only purpose it serves is to gratify your ego,

then you're just using your precious time

to give others a rich life,

instead of making one for yourself.

So, this is a public service announcement:

📣 𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚, 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

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🧠 Unless you're careful, the first thing to go when you start winning is the willingness to keep learning.

Losing may hurt, but it sure doesn't make you cocky.

✴️ Get cocky and you'll produce blind spots.

Each new level requires you to think different.

That guy circled in red in the picture?

⭕ That's me.

Front row at one of my own events.

It was quite a lavish event too 🤵

It wasn't easy to sit my ass down in that seat.

🍲 There was great food

🍷 Greater wine

🤝 People to talk to

👥 Sponsors to dote on

🖼️ Pictures to be in

Etc, etc, etc...

But there were also people that I'd put on that stage that I wanted to learn from.

So I loaded up a plate of food and sat down to listen to them.

No matter how much success you see;

𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠.

🚀 You will become better!

🚀 Your business will do better!

🚀 Your life will be better!

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🗣️ Careful of the voices you allow in your head.

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🤺 I'm aggressively patient.

People like saying things like "be patient" and "give it some time".

Sadly, they also use this belief to rest on their laurels.

One thing I've learned is to be aggressively patient.

🏟️ Rome wasn't built in a day, but neither did it build itself.

Some of the things I'm building/working on are years in the making!

Take action toward your goals, and be patient enough to stick with it.

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⛰️ Standing high up, looking down at the world below me, gives me quite the perspective...

Perhaps it's the meditative effect of hiking up the mountain, surrounded by originating plants 🌳

Anyhow, 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠.

(Feel free to come back afterward and share what it was 😉)

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🪑 I didn't even have a normal chair that day...

This is the day we moved into our new offices, about 4 months ago.

I'd just gotten back from spending Passover in the sunshine state ☀️

My partner and I sat down for lunch to talk about taking our business to the next level.

🗣️ "It's time we got an office".

I agreed.

Less than a week later we found this place, put down a deposit, and moved in.

I didn't even have a normal chair that day. We sat on crappy folding chairs and worked on our laptops.

I've learned a few things since that day that i believe I should share:

📍 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆.

You are probably working at 50% capacity if you're not working in an environment dedicated to getting things done.

📍 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸.

You're a human being and you need to start your day right.

📍 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸, 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗽 𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀.

Listening to content from people like Ryan Stewman and Andy Frisella in the morning will do something to you that coffee never will. That's my personal opinion 🤷‍♂️

📍 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 🚀🌙

We've built a culture in our company where we push each other to do the best we possibly can, and when one of us catches another slipping, we call each other out on it. It comes from the ❤️ and we all know it, and are better off for it.

p.s. We've settled in since this picture and our office is quite comfortable now 😎

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💬 𝑯𝒆𝒚 𝑱𝒂𝒌𝒆, 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏'𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆!

I've heard this from quite a few people recently,

Especially now that I'm active on social media again.

No, I haven't been out partying (just a little 👀).

This video is what many of my days look like.

It got me thinking 🧠

Before I disappeared off social media,

I'd felt almost like a fraud for wanting to do so!

𝑰'𝒎 𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓! 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉!

But I needed to put all my focus and energy into building my new platform LeadLenz without distraction, while continuing to grow Those Marketers.

The irony is, having been so active before,

Disappearing for a while was NOTICED,

And 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 marketed me and business 📣

We've achieved more in these "offline" months

Then we'd achieved in double the time before!

Moral of the story?

🧿 Focus on what's important

✖️ If your business is ready for marketing, shoot me a DM and I'll be happy to help you grow

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All the people that are building multi-million dollar businesses, and phenomenal lives,

They've all figured out one thing ☝️

If we've been connected for a while,

You undoubtedly remember a time when

I posted a motivational video 🤳

Every Single Day,

And now it's been quite a while without even one...

I've always had big ambitions,

And one day I asked myself;

❓ What will you do when you're not feeling motivated?

❓ What will you do when you burn out?

❓ What when you do when your big ambitions overwhelm you?

This led me up the path to discover the one thing

That successful people have figured out how to do really well.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝗽,

How to get themselves moving,

Even when they don't feel like it.

💥 It all comes down to discipline!

Don't ask the question

"𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥?"

Because 𝗡𝗢𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 stays motivated...

Ask the question

"𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦

𝘛𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮?"

It's really easy to go to work

On the days you feel like killing it,

And on those days actually killing it,

𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙩?

Because those days 👆

Those days are going to define

How well your business does

And where you are going to end up in life.

❓ So how does one build that discipline?

I've discovered a very effective method,

Which I'll share very soon,

But I'm curious to hear how you do it!

[lionsunleashed]

A few days ago in Shanghai, a scannable qr code was put up in the sky using drones, and when scanned, allowed people to download a video game 🤯

The way people consume content is constantly changing. In a world where everyone is pulling for your attention, often with blatant click-bait, you have to ask yourself;

How do I stand out?

How do I get attention?

This isn't an ego-based question.

It's about driving business.

🧨 Best known will always beat the best...

👉 Are you known?

[lionsunleashed]

It really amazes me how blind people can be to the opportunities that are all around them.

Unfortunately, young people tend to lack the perspective to recognize opportunity, and older people are usually just too beat down by life to hop on opportunities.

That doesn’t change the fact that there are limitless opportunities available to you at any given time!

Literally anything and everything can be turned to your benefit.

(Maybe if you’d take a moment to stop whining about how difficult things are and your lack of opportunity, you’d notice that.)

Truthfully, there are so many opportunities, sometimes we have a difficult time deciding which to choose and which not!

The lack of opportunity isn't really the issue, is it?

The real issue lies within what you are willing to do to capitalize on the opportunities around you.

When you’re young, you have more freedom to pick and choose your opportunities.

You can be whoever you want, and you can accomplish whatever you want.

As you get older, your body ages, you might get married and have kids, take out a mortgage, and overall, you take on more and more responsibility, which makes it more and more difficult for you to capitalize on opportunities.

Not that there are fewer opportunities at that point. You just have less flexibility on what you’re willing to do to take advantage of them.

So the question you need to ask yourself today is this:

What are you willing to do?

What are you willing to risk?

What happens if you don’t take the risk?

Look for ways you can help the world today.

The door may appear shut, but if you demonstrate the ability to solve a problem, the door will open.

Will you walk through that door?

p.s. no one will drag you through that door… it's up to you.

Power On! 🚀