The Destiny was never known.

To start off, I'm sorry it has been so long since I have written anything.

I will try to pick up some where close to where my last story left off.

I continued programming and learning as much as I could. I spent nights, weekends, days off studying. Reading, writing code, analyzing the market for a job. I applied to thousands of jobs, quite literally, thousands. I probably went through two to three dozen interviews with a variety of companies.

Through these interviews it became very clear and inherent that I did not have the skill to gain a job as a programmer. I did get some job offers, but the ones I got were either contract, or paid so low that I could not afford my mortgage on it.

I even tried doing some freelance coding. I could not get anywhere with freelance coding either. Though I spent three years of my life, countless hours, obtained another bachelors in Computer Programming, all of this was simply not enough to replace my corporate job paying me around $50k per year.

I came across a tough decision when this realization came about. I had just turned 30 years old, last November, and it was a rough age to turn. Looking at my life I was successful by almost everyone's standards. What is success though? My whole life I have been looking for a way to define it. Everyone says "Congrats" on "that job" or "that degree", but what if you don't feel it.

What do you do when you go through the daily motions of feeling like you were meant or more than a simple degree, yet you do not know what? How do you try to even define or justify this feeling? With everyone around you patting you on the back and telling you how good you have done, its hard to pursue the feeling that you should be doing more, or should have done more.

I believe I heard this definition of success from a man by the name of Grant Cardone, "Success is the difference between your current reality, and your potential.". This hits on every single level for me, and is right up my alley.

I have achieved what everyone else considers feats of magnificence, and yet I still felt hollow and empty like I was meant for something else, something different. Not in the way of "I want to save the world!", but just something different that no one would understand until I had achieved it.

I leave you with that as a final thought. Are you working towards, and achieving success by someone else's definition, or by your own? How do you define success? Please reach out for your potential. Getting into the mindset that you have so much more to offer for yourself, your family, and the world will take you to places that you never dreamed of.

I think this is an awesome book and it touches very heavily on reaching for your potential. This is a book that I lend out to as many people as I can get to read it, then encourage them to look into the other items by this author, as I like his content. Grant Cardone is a very successful business man, and his content, in my opinion, is some of the best out there.

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure