01/07/2019
My Journey didn't start today, my journey started when I was 14 years old.
Let me explain a few of my thoughts with you so maybe you can figure out where you are at on your journey too.
I never fit in as a typical high school kid. I bounced around from one group of friends to another, never having a best friend. There just wasn't a group of friends that I could share all of my hopes and dreams with. Most kids were concerned with high school popularity or who they were dating, I was concerned with how to be the best in my future and I was convinced that any typical route like College wasn't for me.
I picked up the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad at the young age of 14, my mom had left it out on the kitchen counter and I couldn't resist the title and ultimately stole her copy. This book confirmed a lot of the way I was feeling while in high school. The feelings I felt while reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad have stuck with me till this day.
My Journey has always had one thing rattling away in the back of my mind and that is to never give up on the entrepreneurial spirit. In the book it speaks about how Adults stop dreaming past the age 25. They get sold into the corporate world and stop dreaming about their future. They dig in their heels for the next 30 years so they can duplicate what they saw with their parents and “retire” from the grind.
I can’t be that person to curl up and wait for 30 years to just “retire”, that isn’t me. I ask myself why I haven’t been “successful” in my visionary and entrepreneurial journey yet, and the answer Is simple. I am scared I will fail. I have been approaching my journey like I have one attempt, and if I fail then I have to go the way of the rest of the world and dig in my heels for 30 years in a corporate job that I do not enjoy, in a job where I am not building an empire for myself but for someone else. This Fear is non-sense, but it has been crippling.
I have realized that I have been burying my head and letting time slip past me because I have had a fear of failure. What I have also realized by standing on the sidelines and just watching others mount up success is that I should be out there just like them. I have tons to offer, I have so many stories that can resonate with others to help inspire others growth. I have realized that it isn’t about me. Because I have been fearful, how many people have not been freed from their fear because I wasn’t there to lead them out?
My Journey isn’t starting today; it’s just being given an opportunity to shine. My journey is just beginning and the people that come across my journey, I apologize for me being so fearful, for even if I find some failure, it is all part of the journey. I am excited to see where this goes, and the people that I get to meet along the way!
Let me know if you have had a similar story to mine, go ahead and comment below with NO FEAR if you are committed to continuing your journey today, but in the spirit of being visible and not afraid to fail.
P.S. – What will the rear-view-mirror of your Journey look like 90 days from now? For me I am expecting to see distance covered, twists and turns navigated, some dust from the speed I made, and for once, I won’t be in the same place as I started!
