Do you know what it was like to be me in school? (it really, really sucked)
I almost had a very different life, destined for poverty and suffering if it wasn't for online marketing.
I literally say sometimes this business saved my life.
Maybe you can relate?
So let me give you a little backstory and hit you with some straight talk...
Our system is broken. I'm a classic example.
Throughout my early years in school I was made to feel "bad" because I was creative and high energy. I was reprimanded, disciplined and sent to detention because I couldn't sit in my seat for six hours a day. In 5th grade (ten years old) I was stuck in the corner for hours at a time in a cubicle backed against the wall, isolated from the classroom.
Even though I came up with the same math answer as the teacher, I was "wrong" and given consequences because I didn't work the problem the same way she did. Yet….I haven't used 98% of the math in my real, adult life that I suffered through learning.
My entire early-life school years were simply preparing me to become an employee. A robot. Someone void of creativity and ideas and groomed to stand in line, be quiet and blindly take orders from a boss.
By age 12 I had little-to-no self-worth. I was insecure. I doubted myself. At times I even hated myself. My grades were my only value and when those began to slip I suddenly felt like I had no purpose in life.
Going into high school drugs and alcohol became my new best friend. They eased the anxiety of test taking and homework.
I had no social skills. I had no healthy coping skills. I didn't know how to talk about my feelings. I felt alone.
I dropped out in 9th grade, became a teenage father and my drug and alcohol addictions took over. For the next 10 long years I went from casual user to everyday heroin addict. All the dreams and aspirations I had of growing up to be professional baseball player at 5 years old vanished like a thief in the night.
This is my story, and as grateful I am to be writing this to you today clean and sober for many years away from all drugs and alcohol - thankfully - and a successful business owner, husband and father….
Similar stories are happening to millions of people all over America; all over the world.
Those who do "make it" and graduate to higher levels of education are forced into choosing their career path at 18 years old and taking on tens-of-thousands of dollars in personal debt before their brains are fully developed to make life-altering decisions of that magnitude.
The American Dream for us is camouflaged as "opportunity" when in reality we're simply preparing to become slaves to debt and work the next - and best - 40 years of our lives to pay it off.
But it doesn't have to be that way.
No matter what your story is….
What your backstory is….
What you've failed at in the past….
If you're willing to LEARN and APPLY….
You can change the REST of your life.
Here's Where To Start (informational video)
It's your time,
Dave Sharpe
