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#13 Coronavirus

What has the coronavirus done for you?  In the beginning, it brought a lot of fear, panic, sadness and anxiety.  I remember taking the bus after heading out to buy necessities, after a period of time staying home. Seeing places so empty, like a scene right out a zombie apocalypse. It was really disturbing to see places that used to be bustling with people, empty. People were scared of people, us afraid of one another and loathing the ones that do not don a mask or removing the mask to sneeze or cough.  But what has it done for you? It made me treasure the people around me, the time that I have, or do not have, it got me to think hard about what matters most, be it people or things I did with my time.  As what Noah Kagan mentioned in the Noah Kagan | OkDork, Don't Do What You Love | The Wolf's Den #78 Youtube video,  "to enjoy life in any aspects is to enjoy the ride. I have a mantra that I read in the morning, it says,  Enjoy the journey, not the destinati...

#12 Don't Do What You Love

Some key points as I'm in the midst of watching this  Noah Kagan | OkDork, Don't Do What You Love | The Wolf's Den #78 Youtube video. Words from Jordan Belfort :  "If you wanna make money, find out what you are great at and monetize that." "I don't let my fears hold me back, I let my fears empower me. When I'm scared, or nervous, I work harder, I use it as a way to work harder, propel myself to success versus being paralyzed by my fears." "When I'm fearful, it's my sign to go." "So much of success is getting yourself to do the things you know you have to do even when you don't feel like doing them and another side to that coin is doing things other people might not be ready to do. → working harder, putting myself out there, not being scared to fail, be judged..." "It's not that I'm so confident, it's that at this point in my life, I know the truth about myself, I know I have the resiliency, the...