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I Just Didn't Want To Be Poor

Name: I Just Didn't Want To Be Poor
Uploaded: 2025-08-31T15:01:13+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this personal monologue, the speaker reflects on how scarcity and the desire to escape poverty in Baltimore shaped their drive. They argue that…

31 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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In this personal monologue, the speaker reflects on how scarcity and the desire to escape poverty in Baltimore shaped their drive. They argue that progress comes from using the resources and emotions you currently have—initially anger, then sadness and shame—to take the next concrete step, rather than chasing vague positivity mantras or distant, grand‑scale goals. The speaker emphasizes pragmatic, incremental action, meeting success where you are, and converting negative feelings into forward momentum.

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You have to use what you have, not what you wish you had, to get to where you want to go. I don't think that anger drives me as much as it used to, but it was everything that I had when I started. And where you want to go isn't 100 steps forward. It's just the next step. If I had listened to the positivity mantra when I started, I never would have gotten going because nothing made me feel happy. They were like, follow your passion. I was like, my passion is to not be poor and to not be here. Be in Baltimore. That's my passion, is not be here. That's what drove me. Like, you have to meet success where you're at. And the first step you have to take out of anger, and the next step you have to take out of sadness, and the next one you have to take out of shame, and use that to propel yourself forward. All that matters, you take the step.