Rule 1: It takes you.
This one is not negotiable

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2 min readMar 30, 2024

You must be able to stand alone or learn to stand alone before you can live a healthy life, achieve your goals, and lead.

There’s a place for support. Support is important, and everyone in life will need support somewhere along the way.

Nevertheless, there’s a room you must enter alone, there’s a path you will walk alone, and there’s a fight you will fight alone. Not because people hate you, but because that is a reality of life.

If you have a vision, a calling, and a passion, and if you remain true to your identity, you will not always have support.

Therefore, if the desire to fit in, to please people, and to win support is bigger than your desire to see your dream come true, by default, you have forfeited your dream.

You must sacrifice for your vision or dream before anyone else does.
You must learn to fight your battles before anyone else does.

Learn to walk alone because everyone has his own journey.
Learn to fight alone because everyone has their own private battles.
Learn to support and help people when you can, because everyone needs it.

You need you before you need me.

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