The how comes from the why. Not the other way around.
If you're looking for how to be successful, you're going about it all wrong. You're doing it for the wrong reasons. And you'll continuously be left searching for the next patch of land to find gold.
What will be left?
An open field of half-dug holes, three feet from gold.
If you know what you want and why you're doing it, you're not worried about the "gold." Your security is internal. You aren't worried about the outcomes because you already know they are coming.
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