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Trader | Hebrews 12:11

[UHN @cdotner]

Waiting on the lord means refusing to take shortcuts and trusting that his ways are higher than ours.
What he has for you is far better than what you can grab for yourself. Waiting isn't weakness, it's courage.

[UHN @cdotner]

The secret of discipline is in the reward, which can only be seen or felt by those who are disciplined.

Discipline is the path, and your heart and mind must be aligned with your true purpose to maintain that path.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

As a man you are cursed to become the exact size of what you hunt. Hunt pennies and your soul shrinks to copper. Hunt kingdoms and your hands grow large enough to hold crowns. This is the law: God carved your capacity from the same stone as your ambition, and He will not let you cheat the equation. The man who fights giants dies a giant. The man who fights nothing dies nothing

[A @AOSpeaks_]

What you do in private, shows in public. Reading shows in a conversation. Your diet shows in energy. Your discipline shows in confidence. Your focus shows in your results. You are what you cultivate when no one is watching. Prioritize your time & focus on discipline/consistency.

[John Cocktosen @indiewhacker]

Once you accept the fact that getting to a world-class level at what you do requires an unhealthy, fatal attraction level obsession with whatever game you're playing...

One that will cause the people around you to question your sanity and how much time you spend doing and thinking about the thing...

When you get to the point where you are cursing your body's need for sleep because you want to keep going, and even when you sleep, dreaming about the thing...

And when you are finally ready to kill your ego, and seek wisdom of the giants who came before you like a detective collecting the clues they've left behind (because the greats can almost never fully articulate how they became great)...

You will then reach a level where you start seeing the unseen. The underlying patterns that are not obvious to the casual observer.

And you'll realize these patterns do not only apply in a vacuum, but can be transposed across markets and scenarios.

Like realizing a mechanism you noticed in one market's sales process can be lifted and applied to another with just a few strategic tweaks...and being able to recognize the what and the how...

This is when your skillset starts to reach a level very few will ever get to.

This is the type of understanding and skill that attracts equity over salary.

The kind that makes you irreplaceable in your role (or would require multiple people to reach an outcome thats not nearly as good)

Your satisfaction with your progress explodes. Your value explodes. And not long after (if you use this right) your net worth explodes too.

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Unfortunately on the road to this level, there is no room for "balance".

You will disappoint people.
You will lose people.
You will get lonely sometimes and wonder if this time in the trenches is even worth it.

It doesn't have to be forever, but to get to the highest level of your game, you need to be willing to sacrifice everything.

Those who truly love you will understand. If you get to this point you are following your purpose. Embracing the reason you feel you were put here to begin with.

Some you lost will never come back. But as you move up the ladder they will be replaced with those more aligned to your path.

Embrace the loss. Embrace the suck. Let the wide spectrum of pain and gain along the way wash over you through good and bad.

Because if you have what it takes to get there, and can stomach everything you will face along the way

Then you deserve every bit of the fulfillment and satisfaction that comes when things finally clcik into place

Because you have successfully bent reality to your will, through sheer brute force. And you will have proven to yourself that YOU are worth far more than you ever believed when you were just starting out on day 1.

[Valentino @EuroValentino]

Your reminder.

[Grant Lannin @retirementkeys]

Life is hard. Things are scary. You're afraid of fucking up & looking stupid. You're worried you'll run out of money. You don't want to be attacked. You see a lot of evil in the world & wonder how & why it exists. You question if you should be a good person. You sometimes wonder if it's all worth it or if you should just stop playing.

These are very normal feelings your animal brain will feed you in times of stress. Have to basically realize that you're here NOW (which means more is right than wrong, a blessing) & there's no other option for you other than to keep going forward powerfully & fearlessly. Remember this game ends anyway. Are you not going to maximize it?

"Fear is a mile wide, a mile high, but paper thin". Our brain creates monsters out of the unknown. The shadows are always massive and scary & it is "safer" to assume there's a monster there instead of a pebble. Because if it is a pebble when we think it's a monster, we are safe. But if it's a monster when we think it's a pebble, we are dead. So the brain has to skew to the 'worst case scenario' as the "most logically-sound operational system" to keep us alive. A biological protection mechanism perpetually running rampant.

Your hedge against all of this is always to zoom out & ask yourself "who do I want to be?". View your life like a biography, you reading it to yourself after you die. "how would I wish i acted here? What would I wish I did there?". Write your story as you're in it. Is it one of courage, victory and triumph? Or one of fear, avoidance & cowardice?

The amazing part is, YOU get to choose.

[UHN @cdotner]

@benhbader @Carlos14672068 Most 18-20 year olds can’t even get out of bed before 9 am. If you have high agency, I agree college will probably be a waste for you, but for most kids it’s probably their best chance at not becoming a 26 year old still living with his parents.

[UHN @cdotner]

@Carlos14672068 @benhbader If you have the foresight to put effort into college and get a good job that actually teaches you skills for 2-3 years move somewhere for another 2-3 years to learn more skills, your a highly skilled 30 year old with $500k-$1mil liquid.