RE: Perseverance and progress.

I am of 2 minds on this one.

You can achieve anything you set your heart to. You can hustle and make money and strive and grind yourself into a machine that cares not for your happiness as it consumes you like fuel to generate profit. When you are comfortable, you will want more. You will sacrifice your life on that treadmill and be proud you are running faster than your peers but the track will keep speeding up and increasing in angle til you die.

That’s a pretty grim outlook on capitalism and free enterprise. Not without merit but definitely the wrong attitude if you want any kind of success and comfort.

One thing for sure for me, nothing can happen unless you believe it can happen and work to make it happen. One wild card we have is our passion when it comes to making things happen. Another factor to consider is that people who have a losers mindset can throw a wet blanket on anything we can and will do if we let them affect our attitude and actions. Misery loves company and others cannot see what we see because they don’t have our perspective.

One thing for sure, if we are to achieve something special, there are moments when we will be grinding alone and doing things other people are not willing to do. When you can balance that with being happy where we are as consistently as we can without becoming complacent, we can keep running the marathon and enjoy victories along the way.

I think that we all want more. It's a natural feeling to want things. The machine expends it's whole energy trying to keep that treadmill going.

Buy more stuff, work more hours, be more successful. They push consumerism down our throats to sell more money and trap people in that vicious cycle.

The real way to win is to break out of their cycle and set our own path. Get debt free, invest, create revenue streams and free yourself form the corporate rat race. IMO.

Anyone can do it but not everyone has the will power and want to achieve it. I try to grind away without sacrificing the important parts of life to do it. Just use wasted time instead. The early morning, the scrolling time. Make them worthwhile.