I’ve discovered the JoS about 8 years ago. When I was in my very early teenage-hood years.
Since then, I’ve only been trying..
But amounting to nothing..
Sometimes I feel something’s seriously wrong with me.
I don’t know how to describe it best.
But I feel like I never amount to anything of substance.
Best I can do is try, but the ending is the same it seems?
I don’t know how I can be a good person, a wise and advanced SS, an ultra-successful entrepreneur, a fit, strong and healthy man.
I feel like I’m nothing, knowing I can be everything.
This hurts me deeply often, then I try again, and I fail again.
Is something wrong with me? Will I ever succeed? Or is this just a pipe dream and I’m actually as worthless as my mind used to tell me?
The time this process takes varies, and you need to be positive about all of this. I will share some of what I have dealt with and how this relates strongly to what you describe.
Despite quite a bit of years in the path, I have tried many, many times at alot of things. Failed alot of times more then I won. Succeeded in some ways.
The same concept and approach applies to basically everything. Especially with being an entrepreneur. I have observed multiple businesses and business models and paid close attention and worked really hard as an employee. Yet, I still am not a successful entrepreneur and have to find my nitch.
One job I crawled around on the wet ground in the cold like a worm, saturated in dirty water from janitorial work, failed some opportunities, worked until my hands literally bled everywhere and I walked away.... still was broke, and nothing to show for it materially.
From there, I spent 4 months grinding out code and applying to computer programming jobs. Sent out hundreds and hundreds of applications. Nothing, and I had to just take the soul crushing defeat after years of building myself up as a self taught Linux Sys-Admin and Computer Engineer. Still take it now, and I have to walk and fight it until someone eventually hires me, while working regular jobs in manufacturing, and planning some endeavors and entrepreneurial pursuits.
Mind you now... this was also combined with alot of wealth and career workings. I had to take the L, all part of the process sometimes.
The good news though? All this struggling and suffering provided me with the knowledge and confidence to move forward in approaching these endeavors and not giving up no matter what happens.
The answer here is you absolutely need to drop this mindset and these doubts. It's alright within reason to doubt, but you must affirm and understand that yes, you absolutely are going to succeed.
This is not a pipe dream insofar that progress is actually made. There is times in my life I've had to just work the job and completely set my dreams and plans aside for a period of time, this is normal and sometimes once we pick it back up in a month or two or a longer period of time, we find we have learned so much through study and experience we didn't know at the time, so then we can apply this to the entrepreneurial path for example.
Be strong in yourself, set things into motion, work hard and never give up and you'll sooner or later succeed.