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    The Journey To Success As A 17 Year Old Entrepreneur

    Hey, my name is Sam Jacobs, and I'm a 17-year-old entrepreneur from New York. Just over a year ago I began my entrepreneurial journey not knowing what I was going into. All I did was gave it my all, and I could tell you the journey of success is nothing but easy.

    To reach success you must master the mindset of an entrepreneur, you must be relentless. You must tell yourself I am going to succeed no matter what, and that was me. I told myself no matter what I was going to reach the top. I was going to be like the people I always dreamt of becoming so I went for it. No matter how many times I felt down no matter how many times I felt like giving up I told myself if I stop now I would never reach my goals, I would never accomplish the thing I wanted from the very beginning, financial freedom and happiness. One big factor of keeping motivated throughout your entrepreneur journey is the power of YOU. See if you don't have the motivation, the journey will be harder than ever, but when your WHY is strong enough, your mind will go chasing after your dreams. Ask yourself why do you want success. Is it for your family. Is it because you just want to live a life of financial freedom?

    For me, It was actually for my parents to allow me to stay away from college and as funny as that sounds It worked! For me, I hate school more than ever. I asked my parents what would it take for you to allow me just to skip college and pursue the entrepreneur journey. We both decided on a number and I went straight for it never looked back. Then one day I realized that I achieved it. My parents started seeing the success and overall allowed me to keep doing what I do best as an entrepreneur. I then felt unmotivated, I felt like I accomplished my goal. So instead of just quitting, I created even bigger goals and bigger things to go after. Remember never stop achieving the next level of success. There were so many times where I just wanted to quit. There were so many times where I just didn't know where to turn. I told myself this one thing... "Figure it out, there must be an answer to my problems." There is a solution for anything that you get stuck with whether it's a search on Google whether it's a simple youtube video there is an answer. The Entrepreneur journey is filled with problems and filled mysteries but from what I can tell you the problem always comes with a solution and that solution is just a step away. Never look back, and never ever give up. You never know what can happen the next day. Success comes from hard work but not just hard work. Smart work.

    For my first six months of my entrepreneur journey I was putting in late nights every single day 2 - 3 a.m. every single night and I saw little to no success at all. I told myself it's coming and sure was I right. That next month and told myself this month is going to be the month where I go all in, where I actually find out the right steps. I invested in two mentors who guided me who showed me the right steps. Since I was already working hard the hard work and smart work combined and created ultimate success. You look at every single billionaire, almost all started from nothing. Remember you're gonna look back at this very day and tell yourself I'm glad I put in the work. Be relentless. Never give up. Go all in and you will succeed and have massive, massive, success in the near future.