How To Ruin Your Young Years

If you finished high school you’ve seen many different types of low-lifes and they all got to that point for a reason.

The first reason that’s universal for all of them is that they prioritize the moment over the future. “These are the best years of my life” is the stupidest quote I’ve ever heard, are you so stupid to believe that your peak is when you’re 16 years old and partying?

If you sometimes get that thought in your head, wipe it out immediately, unless you’re fine with living a shit future for the sake of having fun today. which at that point you’re useless, click off.

Main reason that people fall into this is because they enjoy their current pleasures too much, be it drugs, dopamine, 0 stress, whatever, it’s not even gonna sustain in 1 week. And the way to get over it is to obsess with becoming the best version of yourself. Your best self does not drink, procrastinate, or essentially prioritize the pleasures over your purpose.

This is something that doesn’t come down to tips and tricks, it only comes down to you wanting to be the best version of yourself and wanting to reach all your goals. If someone doesn’t wanna change their lives they wont. But if you do, this was my blueprint—

The first thing that genuinely helped me the most was finding one thing to work on. One thing that would take my mind away from all the momentary things I had going on. For me it was becoming rich.

I went through crypto trading, stocks, nfts, sales and now I’m in business. My full focus over the last 3 years has been on money only, so I had no time for video games, women, drugs, etc. My only focus was and is on becoming as rich as I can and in the past 2 years I’ve done a phenomenal job at that because I had nothing else to do.

It doesn’t need to money for you, it could be, but it could also be achieving the best body you can, or getting as close to god as you can, becoming the best at your craft, etc. Find something that you can dedicate a majority of your life too so that way you just instinctively cut out all the bad stuff because only you decide what you give meaning too.

Another thing that holds others back is how they view everything. If something bad happens to you, don’t view it as bad, view it as how it is. Nothing is good or bad, it just is what it is until you give it meaning.

Whenever someone does something you don’t like just understand that if you were raised in the same environment as them, going through the same things as them and believed the same things as them, you would do the exact same thing they did. So understand them.

Because this is the only way to resolve any issue, understand to be understood.

Or if it’s a negative event that happened, just focus on how you can fix it, don’t even think about what happened or be a victim. Because you never get control over something that someone does to you, or that happens to you, you only have control over how you react and solve the problem.

A horrible thing that I also saw ruin a lot of people is ego. And I’ve talked about this a lot, ego can make or break you. I’ve always used ego as a way to hold myself to a certain standard but most people use ego the wrong way.

They project it outwards, they think they’re better than everyone, and that no one around them is right. So they live these selfish lives which don’t help anyone, not even themselves. If you’ve met someone that’s genuinely egotistical, they have nothing going for them, their only focus is being right.

And this is the first time you’ll hear me say to balance something. Be able to take criticism but don’t just take it from anyone. If someone is older than you but also living a life you don’t want, pretend to listen and dismiss it later, you don’t need to dismantle everything you disagree with or cuss them out.

Be fine with agreeing with people for the sake of saving brain power. Act like others, think how you genuinely are.

And use your ego as a way of holding yourself to a degree. I’m someone who doesn’t scroll, I’m someone who exercises everyday, etc. Use it for yourself and don’t project it onto others.

And a common theme with all of this is people, people are present in every aspect of our lives. And something we need to make sure we have is people around us but not just anyone. Don’t just go out and befriend some crackhead for the sake of community. You need people who have a similar mindset, goals and beliefs as you.

Because the worst part about leaving school is you also leave all the people behind, the good and bad but we as humans are social creatures and we need people around us. We shouldn’t be one of those people who spends all their time inside their stinky rooms dreaming of being successful but who takes no action.

And the way to find people outside of school for most teens/young adults (or at least me) is mainly through the gym, because the people going there are at least too a degree aware of the importance of a healthy body.

Another great way is actually family. There’s a lot of untapped potential in your older siblings or cousins. As well as this, try and join a club, for me I enjoy business events/seminars and outdoor clubs, it could be anything for you like mma, running, computers, literally anything. Just search up an interest and you’ll find a group (most likely free too.)

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And that’s how you go about saving your future self.

• by understanding that The moment is only meant to set your future self up

• next by Find something to put your focus into (gym, business, etc)

• and throughout the whole time, View nothing in a negative way

• Remove your ego

• Find community, or like minded friends

This is all the mistakes I overcame as well as saw a lot of people succumb to over the years so hopefully this helps you regardless of which boat you’re in.

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