{"id":23,"date":"2015-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/blogtofreedom\/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-happy-struggle-to-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:09:26","slug":"when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-happy-struggle-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/blogtofreedom\/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-happy-struggle-to-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Grow up\u2026 I Want To Be\u2026 Happy! \u2013 Struggle To Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I first made the decision as an adult to become an entrepreneur, I was 23 years old.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I worked in retail, I did the same thing that I had been doing for 6 years straight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I felt to discouraged, disempowered, and stuck\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

I had so many things I wanted to do and so many ways that I wanted to enjoy my life.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was disappointed in myself because I wasn\u2019t anywhere close to where I had imagined I\u2019d be when I was a kid.<\/span><\/p>\n

I felt like I was missing something.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like other people I grew up with, who at least had a career or a job that they enjoyed, had figured something out that I believed I was too dumb to even grasp.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had enough money to pay off my car, my bills, rent and some dinners out sometimes.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had only the furniture that was passed down to me and I really felt like I was a failure in many ways\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only did I feel lost, I felt like I had nothing to look forward to.<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked myself daily \u201cis this really it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cJust work every day to just survive to work more? And have nothing to show for it after even 30, 40 50 years at a job I hate?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I made pretty good pay for what I did.<\/span><\/p>\n

I just felt like I had to be so many things I just am not just to make a living.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was a kid growing up, I always felt like I would end up in a big house, with nice cars, making great money, working short hours and travel half the year.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So where I was when I was 23 was a far cry from where I always thought I\u2019d be.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, I have always had high standards \u00a0for myself! I was only 23 and I had actually felt hopelessly lost since I was 17 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was a kid I always thought I\u2019d be helping more people somehow, live the lifestyle that I lived because I am nothing if I can\u2019t give what I have.<\/span><\/p>\n

One day out of pure frustration and a struggle to see how I was going to pay my bills that always seemed to rise month to month, I got a second job.<\/span><\/p>\n

That job didn\u2019t last.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I had an extremely low self-esteem \u00a0and it really showed.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was no longer getting any hours and my current job and was forced to look at something new.<\/span><\/p>\n

I stumbled across a way to make an income online while being authentic and being accepted in a great community.<\/span><\/p>\n

All online.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point, I \u00a0felt like I had nothing to lose\u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I found a place where I could realistically make the life that I always dreamed of as a child a reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had a lot of baggage plus many health problems I\u2019m not going to get into here in this post that set me back over a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

I quickly started writing everything that I could that could possibly help any other human.<\/span><\/p>\n

I started to share solutions to any problem that I could \u00a0and learned how to do it in a way that I became helpful to many people.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Now, even though I could have made this really easy on myself by letting things be as simple as they were, I just didn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

I started creating my own assets online.<\/span><\/p>\n

I started absorbing any training I could on how to get myself emotionally out of a bad place.<\/span><\/p>\n

I started learning \u00a0as much as I could constantly about why people do what they do.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was led to some great coaching programs and as I started to learn, I became more valuable because I started reinventing myself and created my own products to sell to help others learn what I knew.<\/span><\/p>\n

A couple E-books here, a few online courses there.<\/span><\/p>\n

I started to build traffic to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I started building\u00a0relationships with some amazing people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I even got offers to coach others one on one!\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This is actually how I make my income now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am grateful to say that I have been an entrepreneur now for nearly two years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been happier, healthier and I have more time to focus on taking care of my health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to what I learned here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I thankfully have had the time to put into building my businesses and streams of income.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The place where I learned how to do this on my own.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am letting things be simple so that I can properly set myself up in a way that is more grounded and focused.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel like I can be a better example of what I want to inspire others to do and what\u2019s possible if I focus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With results like creating 15 millionaires in it\u2019s first 3 years and over 200,000 customers worldwide and a vision that is aligned with mine, my dream as a child can be made a reality once and for all thanks to one company.<\/span><\/p>\n

At least financially.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll get the full transparent idea of what we do here and why this is working so well and also why this hasn\u2019t even begun as far as what is possible for this community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The point here is simple.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Nothing can\u00a0stop you from the life you truly want to have if you want it bad enough.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you for reading my story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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