Something is Wrong With You…

and me.

I agree with David Goggins: “focus on your strengths” is some of the weakest shit out there.

What type of advice is that?

You are so fucked up, we are so fucked up, and yet you want to double down on what works?

Nothing works! You don’t “work”. You’re fucked up. I’m fucked up. Your “strength” is just a gleam of hope if anything.

It’s a facade. It’s a cover-up.

You sit there making a weak foundation stronger and stronger and building all of this weak shit around it to hide who you really are.

You focus on what works.

How about what doesn’t?

How does you or I allowing our weaknesses to continue to be weak making anything else better?

How does that help your mind? How does it help it when all it does is reinforce that idea of “I could never”?

That’s what’s wrong with us nowadays. We’ve forgotten that our dreams are actually possible.

We’ve forgotten that we can indeed pursue something, that we have an unfathomable amount of potential.

We’ve forgotten that it all just requires work. Hard work. Not that easy focus-on-your-strengths work.

You know how far that gets you?

Halfway.

Oh, maybe you’re fine with that: “half-doing things”.

But the successful ones aren’t.

I’ve come to a point in my life where I’m literally just pursuing my dreams for what it will make out of me.

I’m pursuing it to find answers about myself.

To see if change is possible.

To see if I can actually work hard enough at something to get to the level of all the people I look up to.

And you know what’s funny?

I already know the answers!

It’s “yes yes yes yes and yes!”

I know it’s possible because it’s been done before. The mere possibility of it all excites me.

I don’t care what you believe in, but something or someone or whatever places us here with the ability to actually do it, whatever “it” is.

Is that not enticing?

Look, of course, you should pick your strengths as a start. Maybe you should pick something your good at and want to pursue (hell, or not). But once you decide, that’s that.

There are still going to be a whole bunch of things that you suck at, a whole lot of weaknesses.

When you encounter those weaknesses promise yourself that you will figure it out no matter how long it takes or what it takes.

Don’t reinforce the idea that you can’t do it.

Then who will?

Thank God not everyone thinks this way, or else the world would’ve been an underdeveloped piece of shit filled with billions of scarcity-mindset thinkers who believe “it is what it is”.

Thank God many people are going out there, being successful, proving things are possible, and in turn changing the world for the better. I hope to be amongst them. I will be amongst them.

There are so many people out there living life with intention and it’s still not enough.

The world is still full of a whole bunch of weak-minded people. Forgive me if all of this sounds harsh, but it’s just the truth.

So many people act like they are okay with the way things are and that you don’t have to want to be successful to have a good life.

First off, success is whatever you define it as. But I do think it involves working toward something you set for yourself and achieving it.

Second, why would you aim small, though? Work toward something big and don’t stop there.

Third, if you don’t think life is about growth and achieving and bettering the world please don’t bother laying on your deathbed regretting that you didn’t do those exact things. It’d just be a waste of your last breath, wouldn’t it?

Don’t run away from weakness. That only gives it more power than it deserves. It only softens your mind to convince you that fear is simply fear and there’s no breakthrough on the other side of it. Right?

Wrong.

Run toward it. Make weakness run away from you. Matter of fact, make weakness give up and say “I quit, you win” because it knows you’ll never stop chasing it.

You already have the doubt of success in the back of your mind anyway. Don’t bring it to fruition through doubling down on strengths and letting weakness run free. Don’t quit.

Turn those weaknesses into strengths. The Resistance always wants to know your weakness. Make sure they don’t find any.

The Resistance will find it if you try and guard it with a wall of strengths. Having a wall up means that something dear and harmful to you is on the other side. It means that there’s something to find on that other side that has no protection, and there’s always a way inside.

Instead, make everything within you a strength. There’s gonna be nothing you can’t do, okay?

When the Resistance comes, stand there with all your might, without walls, and dare the Resistance to approach you.

You’ll scare the living shit out of it as it wonders where the hell your weakness-guarding wall went.

And that’s the way it should be.

Please know that you will face resistance, and you’re gonna have to dig deep down in your heart, soul, and mind to face it.

Do you know what’s scary?

No one can face it for you. No one can do it for you. Absolutely no one.

And you don’t need them.

You don’t need accountability, support, empathy, sympathy, or any of that shit.

Sure, they’re nice and all.

But at the end of the day, it is you.

It is you on this big ass planet with billions of people who have their own shit to worry about.

It is you.

You are alone, and it doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

Accept that you are the only one who can go on your journey and change those weaknesses to strengths. Only you can reach what you want to reach.

Don’t you get it?

You’re not coming back! Not here at least.

Life is now. It’s you and life. There isn’t any magic to this.

It’s raw, organic, dirty.

It’s you and the world.

How will you make your mark?

You can choose to double down on what you’re good at and know deep down it’s because you were too weak to face inevitable challenges.

Deep down it’s because you quit too early.

You quit thinking “maybe it’s not possible for me”, even though it fucking is!

You quit thinking that you will be okay with where your life will take you even though you won’t.

You quit all the way to your death bed and then you say: “I should’ve…”

Should’ve doesn’t do anything for you at that point. Don’t let your potential-future-self-of-greatness look down on you and the weak path you reluctantly pursue.

Step up to the plate and face the challenges head-on.

This is your life we are talking about! It is happening now and will continue to do so, whether you are on board or not.

How will you live it?