Missteps: It’s alright to collapse

You grow up thinking you are going to change the world. As a child, you were certain of your capabilities, that there would be no inhumanity when you became an adult. But when adulthood hits, you find yourself in the middle of financial struggle and emotional fallout. Somewhere between the lines, you lose the innocence of that child to solve inhumanity and start falling on your knees just to bear the load of life. And when this pressure hits you make mistakes not ordinary missteps, but life-changing wrongs. And then hits the guilt and self-doubt of being better than that. You start to call yourself a failure just because that stock didn’t grow as expected. You start thinking that you are a loser just because you couldn’t prepare good meals. A failure who couldn’t stay consistent at the gym. A failure who made really bad financial decisions in the lust for more money faster. And when you hit this self-rejection point, that’s where greatness begins, or the vision dies.

You are not a god

The problem with highly capable human beings is that they start seeing themselves as gods after a certain point. They naturally outperform at anything they desire, and that instills a belief of being superficial. And this misbelief somewhere instills a problematic psychic element. “I can’t be wrong. I can’t make mistakes”. And when life hits you, fall back and reflect on your missteps. You are devastated. Your brain starts to scream, “You fool, how could you? You were supposed to be better than that. How could you make such a stupid mistake?”. And then hits the defense wall, you kill the vision and believe it’s unachievable. Not because you are incapable, but because your destiny doesn’t want you to do it. And it is at this point that you need to understand that humans make mistakes, and if one mistake kills your vision, were you really the supreme commander you once believed yourself to be?

90% of men give up after that first devastating mistake. Punishing themselves for the rest of their lives for making that mistake. It could be financial, emotional, or maybe something they didn’t even intend to do. But because of their own poor belief system and lack of self-awareness, they give up on themselves. And from there begins the slave mindset. That uncle at your office who just does office work, spends time with family, gets the paycheck regularly, and does nothing else is the end result.

There is always time

So now we are over the part that you are a failure just because you made a mistake. Now, another constraint is time. A lot of men think they don’t have time, but let’s say you have 2 days left, what’ the point of living it for a paycheck? See that paycheck or that vision, nothing is gonna make you happy. The race never ends, whether the race is about achieving something in life or getting a bigger paycheck. What matters is what your experience was? When you die, do you regret how you spent those last days of your life? That’s what matters. And if you can’t forgive yourself for such simple mistakes and stop punishing yourself to be a slave, you don’t deserve the life you are living. Animals are better than you. The only thing that differentiates man and animals is that man can choose to live the way he wants. Don’t let that misstep kill the child who believes he is special.