Dear Anthony,
Last year you, were going through some troubled waters. It wasn’t anything devastating, just depressing and prolonged any traction you may have had the year prior. You were trying to build trying to work on you but it got put on hold.
It’s okay though....seriously it’s okay to be where your at. You broke up with your fiancé and had to move back in with your parents while you started a new job. You made it work, you had support and you didn’t give up. Your family and friends helped you through the struggle of depression, Covid-19 didn’t help at the end of 2019 going into 2020, but you stayed safe followed the guidelines for keeping others safe.
All of 2020 you worked hard having two jobs for four months to pay off your credit card debt. You helped your parents remodel their house inside and out throughout the year, all the while working on yourself. You started drawing again, you started writing again and you started reading again. You began to work out twice a week and lost 20lbs of depression fat.
You have grown out of the depression you were in, you were knocked down but you stood back up. You started to get that traction back, one baby step at a time you started moving and your still going.
This new year I know big things are coming, your taking action, your taking risks because you know if you never try you’ll never know if you could have succeeded and if you fail you’ll move on and try something else. This year is not just yours, your making it yours!.
Your doing well at your new job, your going to start working another job part time just on the weekends. Your donating plasma twice a week and you started up a small business online to sell coffee. You are making things happen for you, and you’ve got a plan all be it a simple plan, it’s a plan that suits you.
Your working to pay off school debt by October of this year, then you have an auto loan your going to pay off by august of 2022, you will continue to learn and grow as you manage your business, promoting it everyday. You will start to save and get your own place by the start of 2023 and will carry all this momentum with you through that year as well.
Your business Senor Llama Coffee LLC is doing well, and your looking into starting another small business. You plan to have at least three other small businesses while you continue to work and write. *You just want to be a billionaire so f****** bad*, but let’s be real you don’t, even if Travie McCoy and Bruno Mars sang such a catchy song. Your plans are to build wealth by having more then one source of income, to invest and save for your future endeavors.
You are living your best life right now!, not because your going to have money not because you have a five to ten year plan. Your living your best life right now beacause your not giving up, your not settling for anything less then greatness. It’s hard work and it will take time but your heart is full and your mind is determined to make things happen you are manifesting your life right now, you are in control of your actions and your time.
So to close I wish the best for you, your goals, your plans and for your success. Your hard work will pay off and you will have everything you work for, because you want things and the only way to get them is to work.
Good luck, best wishes, stay blessed and stay humbled because you may not have hit rock bottom but you came pretty damn close and you climbed back up, and your climbing until you say it’s enough.
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Anthony Valadez
Novice writer. Living life one day at a time.
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