Developing It. Not Faking It.

I choose to believe that I am a rich, prosperous, happy entrepreneur in the making. 

You could say I subscribe to the classic commandment, “Fake it till you make it.”

I am in partial agreement with the idea of “faking it” till “I make it.” My belief is that I am almost there, touching, feeling, even smelling the achievement of my Great Goal -to become a successful  media entrepreneur. 

I am not actually faking it, I am building it, indeed.

Certainly, the Great Goal as a whole is, still, an unfinished business. It can't be appreciated to its full extent as much as an unfinished work of art can't elicit any emotional or esthetical response from the beholder, who may look at the shapeless, developing project as a mere collection of meaningless elements -emphasis on meaningless.

The project only makes sense to its author. It is the author who strives to blow life into his creation, a process that usually takes an emotional and financial toll on him. 

Only the author experiences the pangs and fears derived from the creation process. The longer this process takes, the worse the amount of frightening uncertainty.

Naturally, the outside world will tend to look at the author's suffering as pitiable at worst, or something unfathomable at the best. It is this particular feedback from the outsiders that often creates an extra hardship on the aspiring entrepreneur, especially when it involves people he cares about.

It feels like an anvil being thrown down on his shoulders, on top of the heavy weight he already has to carry around.

Yet the artist and the entrepreneur must keep going. Because only the artist and the entrepreneur know why they have to pursue a dream, a vision, a purpose. In discovering why they realize this journey is a lonely and very often misunderstood adventure.

We Are Alone In Our Journey

I want to believe that a man may be beaten but not defeated.

I want to believe that times of frustration and hopelessness are indeed preparing a man for the upcoming times of success and prosperity.

When a man hits a financial rock bottom, for one, by mere logic alone, progress out of it is what lies ahead of him.

Even though it hurts a lot.

My own experience teaches me that apparently there is no God or Universe holding a safety net at anytime. You must get back on your feet all by yourself.

If God exists -which I strongly doubt-- it is in a catatonic state, utterly unable to help us. It is an inept God. Sorry for writing this, it's just the facts as I see them.

A man cannot live based on faith alone. He needs and demands results to keep it going.

Thus, a man must take massive action to reinvent and save himself, to advance towards prosperity and a chance at a better life.

The secret to keep fighting and eventually win the battle is in his very own mind.

I believe it is a dialectic operation. A man creates as much his own circumstances as circumstances create its own men.

I believe that the good and the bad that may happen upon a man is not the result of some divine intervention, or some odd alignment within the Universe.

It is the complex consequence of a man's thought and action interacting with Reality.

A man's mind can produce miracles in real life. It may take a long time. Or a lifetime.

A life lived believing in what is worth fighting for is much better than a life devoid of that Supreme Goal that pretty much feels like Home.

Achieving it is certainly possible. Only the time for its realization is uncertain.

Therefore, and despite his present circumstances, a man who has taken his first step towards his Supreme Goal and is resolved to never surrender is on his way to Glory.

For now he realizes that he only has to ways Home: death or Victory. And there is no one else to help him keep going regardless of what he may believe. No God, no Universe.