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This week….. Oh boy where to start….. Mentally, I guess has been good. As I had said in the very beginning of the creation of this blog, this is my life on my journey to a million. My end goal is 20 mill, but for now who’s counting right. The first mill is a good goal post to hit first. So, This week……

This week actually started last Sunday at 2pm. That’s when I woke up to start my day for work (work at the club) . Many times on Sunday’s, while at work,  I use that time to prep for the coming week. Many financially rich and mentally successful people prep their week the night before the week starts and then constructively analyze and restructure their coming days each night prior to each coming day.

So this post I call “a snapshot that I can remember part 1” and here is why, so I woke up Sunday @ 2pm and didn’t go to bed until Monday night around 11pm. A total of 33 hours. Was it tough? To say the least!!!! but idk, now a days I don’t do that as often as I used too. Back in the day (like 5 years ago) I would do those type of hours on the reg. But now in my older years, It just hurts too much to do both the night life and then instantly turn around and also do the day life. I don’t know if it’s because of my age or that I am not belting down on my determination. Who knows???? Maybe it’s a mix of both. But you know, there are still days, every once in a while, where I can push thru the breaking point and do 25 + hour days.

This week just happened to be one of those weeks. (Side note: I will say this, whenever I do a 30 plus hour day, I tend to sleep really, really well that night without waking up repeatedly throughout the night) So this week 30+ hours in one day.

After work in Austin, I got home already with an agenda of things that I wanted to tackle. I told myself that I would push until my body gave up and my eyes just wanted to close,tap out, and get that small burn from being open too long. At this exact moment of writing, I can’t quite remember every exact thing I did. Idk if it is because of the other things that happened through out the week or because sleep deprivation causes memory loss. What I do remember is that I made significant ground on connecting with people. One event that happened at the end of my day was that I caught up with an old childhood friend, Roland Arriaga, to get some advice on an upcoming event. I was at his house by about 6 or 7pm and on the way to his house I could feel my eyes start that burn and wanting to close, So I stopped at a Valero (local convenience store) and picked up one of those new Acai berry red bulls. I later sat with Roland, in a room that a few years earlier I helped him section off to create and turn into his personal office space. While sitting and talking, I patiently and slowly sipped on my red bull and talked about things that would cement my purpose for staying mentally strong. I truly believe that one must surround themselves with like minded people. And for me 99.9% of my like minded people that are hell bent on making success a MUST is almost non existent in my close circle of physical life, especially compared to the number of people that I interact with on the reg that are content with not digging their heels into the shit that life gave them and making sure that where they started in life is 180 degrees different than where they end up. Many, when asked how bad they want a better life say “I want it real bad” but the truth is exactly as Eric Thomas says “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful!”. And there ain’t no more truth than those few words. It takes an immense inner pulling of internal will and mental aggression, much like a pitbull to a tire, in order to push the body past the 24 hour period, let alone 30+ hours. So for me to find personal time with one of my very few friends, (that I rarely see) and we spend the whole time talking about life events that have shaped our determination to dig and find success, about things that we have read of successful people and how they have overcome obstacles and challenges, and even current events in our life and how we want these events to be stepping stones to our future. Stephen Covey and many others say you are the sum of the 5 people that you surround yourself with , so I find it important to take time for me to connect with the very few childhood friends that see and define success in the same way I do.

Sadly time had flew, and by the time I knew it him and I had spent almost 4 hours talking. I only meant to be there for about an hour or 2, I had things that I still wanted to try and accomplish plus I was already up for way too long.  When I was about to leave I had remembered that I only ate breakfast so on my way home I stopped for about 20 minutes and grabbed some food. Then I went home and like a charm I slept without any hesitation of my mind running. It’s like my mind finally ran out of gas. Something that doesn’t happen very often without doing some mental work (mindful meditation or meditative music) to turn off the internal chatter…… To be continued.

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