For money to carry the heavy load for you in middle age, you must first carry the heavy load for money, skills, and a brand in your youth. -- Twitter
For anything really, that is valuable and precious, like money.
The grace and poise of a public speaker in middle age comes from deliberate efforts - even if it means the effort of simply discovering and accepting their god given talent, using their voice artfully.
Who knew, that even the act of looking deeper inside oneself - to find out what one is good at — is, on its own, heavy lifting and requires incredible mental strength?
André Gide, a Nobel Prize winner, once remarked:
“Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not—they dare not turn the page. The laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all.”
He would drive the point home, adding:
“You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.”
In this short adventure called life, few mistakes are as irreversible as settling for a career or job you despise—merely because it pays the bills. Notice I say 'settle', because understandably we all need to start somewhere. Not everyone begins with inheritance. Some, in fact, inherit debt.
No matter. You have youth. You have 365 days a year. You have a brain. You can and should carry the heavy load—for financial stability, for skills, for your unique brand and voice.
You can and should realize that:
Time defines our lives. We are not shaped by the space we find ourselves in but by how we spend the time we have in that space.
Cancelo Alvarez
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