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Believing in Yourself Is the First Step to Achieve Anything

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.”

Darius Foroux
4 min readOct 4, 2021

Without self-belief, we can never do the things we want. It’s difficult to be happy, have a career we enjoy, and make an impact on others if we keep doubting ourselves.

Without self-belief, we’ll go through life with our heads down, trying to avoid failure, criticism, and risk.

Without self-belief, we think we’ll never be enough. We keep chasing the next degree, experience, promotion, and so forth.

Without self-belief, no one else will believe in us either.

Your belief is your reality

When I talk about investing with friends or people I meet, the majority says things like, “I’m bad with numbers.” Or, “Investing is only for Wall Street people.”

So they never even try to invest. And the people who do try often read books about investing that say, “You can’t beat the market!”

Sure, the odds are against you. But it doesn’t mean beating the market is impossible. There are always people who beat the market every year. It can be done. Just not by everyone. But if you want to achieve something and…

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Darius Foroux
Darius Foroux

Written by Darius Foroux

I write about productivity, habits, decision making, and personal finance. Join my free newsletter here: dariusforoux.com

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