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Swimming against the current is hard for a reason

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Photo source by  https://unsplash.com/@toddquackenbush?photo=E9PJO_vL3E8 To pick up where we left off last time, accomplishing your wildest dreams is possible, but it takes more effort than the "overnight success" stories care to tell. A society of participation trophies and not keeping score, as to not hurt people's feelings is failing to prepare the next generation for the battle that life will hand them. This may come as a surprise to some but, life isn't easy, nor will it ever be, because it wasn't meant to be that way in the first place. I have experienced life's battles first hand. From a young age, I was made fun of for being short. To this day, people find it their duty to remind me of how short I am, that it's not OK to be so, and that I am less valuable a person because of this single trait. So much that when I was younger, it felt like a burden I was incapable of baring. This created a feeling deep inside like I had something to prove, yet lacke...

The chicken or the egg? What the entrepreneurial gurus don't tell you.

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  Photo source by Nicole Martins Ferreira from Oberlo -  14 Jan, 2020 About two years ago, I started on my tech entrepreneur journey, because I truly believed I could make a difference, and wasn't satisfied with the limitations set upon me, as an employee. I ran into a few brick walls along the way, and almost gave up numerous times, before I had anything to show for the late nights and hundreds of hours of research and writing. No one believed I could do it, even my wife had her reservations, and rightly so, I had nothing to show for my effort, except for three failed business ventures, and being sold down the river twice, by two different scammers. A lot of adversity came my way in a short period of time, a lot more than documentaries on successful people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates, portray. This may be because I came into the tech world relatively late in life, and am less of a genius and more of a dreamer with grit, who refuses to give up on the the idea th...