08/15/2021
Society has monetized success.
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Everyone is in competition with each other trying to…
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Have the go to the best schools.
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Get the highest paying jobs.
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Drive the slickest cars.
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Wear the trendiest clothes.
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And show up on social media living their best life!
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But for a lot of people it ends being one huge trap.
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You get in debt for the car.
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You work your ass off for a raise and when you get it, you upgrade your house stretching yourself even more.
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I was living that life for most of my life and what confused me the most was that I still wasn’t happy.
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I thought there was something wrong with me!
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What I learned though all of this was that my beliefs about success were all wrong.
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Back then I’d rather be unhappy with the Gucci shoes than happy without.
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And the funny thing is… I was the most depressed and disconnected that I’d ever been in my life.
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I learned that monetizing success creates competition, greed, anxiety and fear.
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It makes you care what others think & it makes you compare yourself to what everyone around has and does.
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It puts you in the lack and actually holds you apart from what it is we truly seek.
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FREEDOM!
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Growing, expanding and learning has become second to paycheques and material items.
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True freedom comes when you can let go of your old identity and love yourself enough to grow.
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Albert