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My Million Dollar Cryptocurrency Plan for this Year
You better suck it up, buttercup.
He sounded serious.
He should.
I was on the edge of a spiral, a deep dive into a woe is me, with a heavy helping of self pity and why, why cruel world.
I sniffed a snort of laughter.
Because he was right, and he reminded me about a 5k race I ran on small hills in Florida. The Suck It Up Buttercup 5k.
It was only 90 degrees, it was only 3.1 miles and the hills weren’t even that big.
But it was fun.
He was reminding me, I used to have fun.
I wrote more comedy back then.
But I’ve been listening to some other people who don’t think I’m funny.
Have you heard the expression, be careful of who you surround yourself with, because you are the sum of those 5 people?
What if you accidentally become a victim of it?
A steady current can erode the strongest rock, and though my confidence has always been quite high, for the past few years, the level of criticism against me has increased.
Ten fold.
Words like, “What’s wrong with you?” and “Not good enough,” are bandied about with…