Enjoy the shadows:

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Enjoy the shadows.

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The silence.

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The darkness.

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The moments no one else sees.

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Enjoy it.

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Savour it.

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Appreciate it.

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If you work on something bad enough, you’ll be successful.

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You’ll accomplish your dreams.

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You’ll be recognized everywhere.

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But that life can also tear you down.

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It can destroy you.

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Success is intoxicating.

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It’s a drug.

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It’s a never-ending wheel with no stoppage.

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You have to be ruthless with your time.

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You have to be ruthless with your relationships.

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You have to be ruthless with your decisions.

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Your life shifts when you get success.

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More things to do.

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More things to buy.

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More things to experience.

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But you lose that time alone.

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You lose that time thinking.

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You lose that time tinkering.

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You lose that time failing.

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Then judgment enters the picture.

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Particularly other people’s.

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People tell you you’re great.

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People tell you you’re successful.

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People tell you you’re a role model.

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Yet the entire time you feel like a fraud.

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Like you don’t deserve to be here.

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Like you haven’t put in the work.

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But you have.

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You did.

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You deserve it.

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You worked for this, even when no one saw.

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That’s the difference with the greatest.

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They get some success once.

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Then they do it again.

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And again.

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And again.

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Not for one year.

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But 5 years.

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A decade.

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Multiple decades.

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Most of the time - failing.

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Showing up with no success.

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Showing up to work.

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Showing up to practice.

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Showing up to improve.

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Showing up for themselves.

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Success will come when you enjoy the process.

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When you enjoy the time alone.

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When you enjoy the darkness.

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When you enjoy the shadows.

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