This one’s personal.

No fancy edits, no gimmicks — just lessons and frameworks that shaped me.

🔹 A lot of people wait for perfect conditions to start, not realizing that starting is the perfect condition.

🔹 If you live in the future, you’re anxious. If you live in the past, you’re depressed. If you live in the now, you’re happy.

🔹 Life is like the gym — there’s always someone ahead of you and someone who’d kill to be where you are.

🔹 Trees don’t hang around in the grass even though they both started on bare dirt.

🔹 You don’t rise to your standards when no one’s watching — you fall to them. The real work is the work no one sees.

🔹 The difference is I can starve for as long as it takes, because I won’t settle for fast food.

🔹 God will never let what you lost be the best you ever had.

Then there’s escape velocity — that moment when everything clicks after years of pressure, doubt, and failure.

People call it “overnight success.” But it’s really the reward for everything you endured when no one was clapping.

This video is a reflection, a reminder, and a conversation — from me to you.

Because chasing success isn’t the goal. Becoming who you’re meant to be is.

—

🎙️ Subscribe for more raw thoughts, frameworks, and stories on business, mindset, and life.

#TheRicardoVargas #Mindset #Entrepreneurship #Growth #Lessons #Motivation #MowBlowGo #thejourney

Links:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thericardovargas

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ricardovargas174

Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@r.vargas174?_t=8lJxUUN4SD5&_r=1

Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ricardov174

Threads: https://www.threads.net/@ricardovargas174

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-journey-from-zero-to-a-million-and-beyond/id1734802848