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The Last Year With My Eyes Closed

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Mathias Barra
6 min readNov 6, 2019
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Gary Vee has been consistent in one information he gives:

Close your eyes until you’re 30.

And I turned 29 today. This means I have exactly 1 year during which I definitely cannot let myself think I’ve done enough.

Then again, what is enough? Is there truly such a thing as “enough”?

I have realized there will always be more that I can do. And even more important, there will always be more I want to do.

The world has so many opportunities open for each and every one of us and it’s a matter of whether we want those hard enough.

Yes, I didn’t give much thought to what I wanted to accomplish in the long term before a year or so ago but I’ve noticed the many years I spent studying languages were all to get me ready for a bright future.

If I gave myself the opportunity.

Obviously, waiting for an opportunity to fall on your shoulder never really works and if you’re one of the lucky ones who do get it, you’ll often waste it for lack of preparation.

And now that I’m officially a 9-ender, I definitely don’t plan on getting to the big 3 0 my hands in my pockets, hoping for the best.

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Mathias Barra
Mathias Barra

Written by Mathias Barra

French polyglot speaking 6 languages. Writer. Helping you learn languages. Get my new ebook → https://linktr.ee/MathiasBarra

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