Thread by @bigbrothergrav

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"This Is My Story"

My Pursuit of Happiness

A Thread//

Deciding where to start my story was a bit of a struggle

What should I share from my past?

Why is it even worth sharing?

I mean why should you waste your time reading a thread about some random guys past

Looking at his mistakes and analyzing his life

I don't want to bore you with all of the little details

At the end of the day, Why would you even care?

What could you possibly gain from looking back at my life and the different moments that define me?

A big roundabout story, with tons of words and you get... what?

Simple. For the Lessons Left Behind

My past. The moments and interactions that shaped who I was

They are all lessons I have learned on my journey that I want to share with all of you

Every step of the journey and every connection in the process

Made Me Who I Am Today

This last March, right when the pandemic struck, I was pretty much skating by in life

I had a good job (Analytics Consultant),

I had a cool new apartment and plenty of free time since I got to work from home

Let's just say I played A LOT of Fortnite and Rocket League..

After a week of slacking off at work and playing 14 hours of Fortnite a day

I got BORED

Then really down and depressed

I just started looking at my life and just kinda feeling underwhelmed

I was basically just the shell of the person that I wanted to be

For the first time in my life, I realized something

Something that would become the catalyst of everything I would change over the next year

I went from broke, depressed, and constantly ashamed of my life

To Confident, Passionate, and above all. Happy

What changed?

What did I realize that completely altered my entire mentality?

"No one is coming to save you. So get off your ass and go save yourself"

Well, shit. I know. Very to the point...

But it's a simple truth.

You must take responsibility for your life and how you live it

As I was sitting at my desk during the second week of quarantine

I had a thought

"If I don't start figuring out my life now and when there is literally nothing else to do, I never will"

I was about to be quarantined for MONTHS and heavily isolated

It struck something deep

Taking the right actions is started by creating habits and behavioral changes

Align your mind, body, and spirit towards bettering yourself

One day, You'll make it where you were pushing for

When your mind, body, and spirit are out of balance

Everything you hate will come true

This isn't going to be your typical 'Thread' where I give you some useless platitudes and engagement tweets

This thread is going to actually be 30 separate threads that will all piece together into one big roadmap

A roadmap through my life and the insights it shares with us

Over the next 30 Days, I am going to be sharing different moments in my life

From these experiences, I am going to share everything I learned and some of the mistakes I made

We are going to discuss my mistakes I made and the lessons I gained from them

During junior and the first half of senior year, I was truly on top of the world

I was working out every day and getting my body in peak shape

I was focused on my mission and doing everything I could to make it happen

I was passionate about improving myself

Because I was gaining confidence, I finally asked out the quiet girl who had a crush on me

That girl truly unlocked my potential in a way I never had before

She believed in the real me and it gave me confidence

I didn't care what happened to me, because I knew she loved me

With her by my side, I started to fully unlock my athletic potential

Now, not only did I have the size, speed, and mental to dominate

I had something infinitely more important. CONFIDENCE

I walked onto that field with the thought that I was the best or I would become the best

I didn't care who was in front of me

I didn't care what others thought or said

I just knew without a doubt, I could do anything I set my mind too

This was the first time in my life I got a glimpse of this 'potential'

But as it happened many times

Everything would tear apart

From a Captain of my high school football team

To this. A 65 yard hail marry pass to lose in play-offs my senior year



I broke up with my girlfriend that night...

After that day, I slowly broke inside. Badly

It took me almost 7 years to fix it

Through playing college football at Mizzou and studying engineering/math

To trying to commit suicide --> Being saved by your friends

To almost making 2nd team --> To quitting for school and losing all of my friends

To getting very lost in the alcohol and drugs

To spend a year and a half building a massive online social network

To watching it fail miserably and all fall apart

To slowly dying every day as I hated going to sleep

And never wanting to wake up

Every day The same as the last. Nothing ever changes.

Then, it all changed

I'm going to walk you step by step how I took back control of my mindset

Took back control of my growth

Took back control of my life

Then, I'll show you how you can do it in your life too

Everything I've learned

Every past experience has become a journal on how to be better

In July, I found the girl of my dreams

I found her after I found the man of my dreams, ME

The real, unaltered, Me

Together, we continue to grow and push each other forward

I became happy and confident on my own

When I found her, I became unstoppable

All in all, every step has led me where I am today

Hopefully, through my experiences, you can find your own insights

⭐Innovation Through Insights⭐

A mindset and lifestyle that will drastically alter how you live this life

Tomorrow I'll show you how.

Tune In.

Thread #2 - Innovation Through Insights

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