The 5 am club

The Billionaire’s Maxim #3
Failure Inflates Fearlessness.
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so
cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you
fail by default,” said J.K. Rowling.
The mighty goliaths of ambition and the massive behemoth of
imagination within you must never be abducted by the tiny cowards of “What
would people think?” “What if I get rejected?” and “I’ll probably look silly if
I try this.”
You can allow yourself to become paralyzed by a fear of rejection or you
can go out there and astonish the world. But you just don’t get to do both.
Life’s reality is that you have a transcendent destiny that begs for your
attention in this era of crushing complexity. Stop abusing your greatness,
deforming your magnificence and denying your radiance by labeling
something that didn’t turn out as you wanted a failure. We all know that
within every seeming setback lies a distinguished opportunity for even greater
success.
And start saying yes more often in your life. Courage is an exquisite
weapon to defeat the armies of regret that tear away at lives meekly lived.
A wooden paintbrush about the size of a finger was the next magic charm that

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Mr. Riley carefully lifted from the metal box.
“This will reinforce the notion that you are a powerful creator of your life.
And a mighty artist around your ambitions. That productive, prosperous, fit
and optimistic people got their great fortune by luck is a lie. I’ve invested a
lot of time making sure you understand this point. That such folks made their
empires of money, vitality and influence on society because the stars aligned
in the right order to breed their success is pure myth. Here, look at this,
please,” instructed the mentor kindly as he handed over the next letter.