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Building Unbreakable Confidence

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You look around at your peers and they are all taking the wrong drugs getting no where in life

You’re only 17

“I’m going to fix my life.” You mean it

You tell your friends “I’m going to gain 10 pounds of raw muscle this year and lose my belly”.

Your friends laugh

Its been a year

You look in the mirror, you benched 175 this year, you got down to 10% body fat

You walk on the beach one day in the summer and you notice that even these older broads are checking you out

YOU GOT A LITTLE BIT MORE CONFIDENCE.
WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

It’s results day for college admissions

You didn’t get into that Ivy or even a target school

Your friends come back and tell you it’s not possible to get into Investment Banking now, you’re not smart enough

You’re stressed, but you believe in yourself

You lost all that muscle you built up because you’re working three finance jobs in college to make sure you can have a chance when you start cold calling those banks in 3 years

You’re getting no where

No one wants you in their office

You keep on grinding it out

You get one hit from a boutique bank for an internship

You get the job

Maybe improvement isn’t linear

Maybe you’re friends were wrong. Maybe you can hack it

You work 100 hour weeks

You thought 100 hours a week was easy, its not

That’s what you’ve been told to believe

You get the offer

You realize a lot of what you knew about finance was a myth

You saw a double jump in confidence and now you think you can hit those weights again because you earned a stripe in the war of life

YOU GOT A LITTLE BIT MORE CONFIDENCE.
WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

You land a more prestigious job at a higher ranked bank in M&A because of your work experience

Everyone around you has that ivy league education

You’re dirt to them

You don’t care

The market is firing, deals are going and you’re the only one working 100+ hours a week and hasn’t complained once

Time passes

They tell you, “we think you’re going to be an associate you don’t need that MBA“

YOU GOT A LITTLE BIT MORE CONFIDENCE.
WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

Your ego is getting a little too big

You’ve got a couple girlfriends who know you can’t commit

But you have that confidence still

You even kept the majority of that muscle

You get into a fight at a club, you slipped up

Your arm is broken

You’re struggling at work but its fine

Seven months elapse, a large recession

You’re laid off

No one wants that young associate

Your girlfriends leave you in a blink

You look at your life, all those hours are now worthless... so you think

No one is hiring

You’re broken down

You remember how you got that first job and think to yourself

I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
I'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE

You pound the phones, your ex-employer still loves you, eventually you get one interview

You nail it

Time elapses you’ve survived

They offer you a promotion. You accept

You recovered

YOU GOT A LITTLE BIT MORE CONFIDENCE.
WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

Some time goes by

You’ve been doing better and better.

Your body is returning to normal because you know only losers quit

You’re back to that weight room

You’re at a new high, you don’t even tell girls what you do for a living because you learned your lesson last time

You take a ski trip and break your leg. You're in the hospital again

I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
I'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE

You’re weaker than ever

Your superior lets you know “you know maybe we’ll promote you soon”

You can’t tell if he’s a lying stealing cheating banker

But you do know one thing

YOU GOT A LITTLE BIT MORE CONFIDENCE.
WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

You’re getting read to sleep for more than 8 hours for the first time in years

As you’re drifting off to sleep you realize every time you recover you become a better man

I’ve been here before. I’ve seen this before

Your last thought
"I hope I get fired"

You pass out

FIN!!!

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