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The One Quote That Shifted My Mindset

Ahmed Awad
3 min readJan 3, 2024
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I tend to rush things.

To seek quick results.

To dream of overnight success.

This is ingrained in me. I know it’s not correct, but in the heat of the moment, I can’t help it.

I was convinced that overnight success was possible.

There are people who succeed overnight.

Or I thought there were.

I was impatient. This was true throughout my life, but it was painfully clear when I started a new project or a new business.

In 2022, I started a YouTube channel.

I saw that it was a lucrative side-hassle for many.

I chose the book niche because I enjoy reading books.

I made the videos myself.

I was inpatient to professionally produce them.

When there were no results after a week, as expected, I was going mad.

Just two weeks after starting my first channel, I started another one.

I thought my first niche wasn’t good, so this time I made videos about how to make money online, as advised by the gurus on Fiverr.

I made some videos and again waited to see BIG results in a couple of days, but of course:

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Ahmed Awad
Ahmed Awad

Written by Ahmed Awad

on a mission to distill the best books and studies into practical, actionable insights. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmedawadxx/

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