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    Pushing Fifty, Still Pushing
    Pushing Fifty, Still Pushing
    Pushing Fifty, Still Pushing
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    Pushing Fifty, Still Pushing

    By Frank Perez

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    The Secrets Of How To Find Passion In Life Again - Immediately

    In this eBook I'll cover how to get off the canvas and back into the game. Techniques on how to get back that feeling of being alive and in control of your own destiny once more.

    You can use these techniques to find passion for life again, make more money than ever before, and even stop working for other people!

    Heck, I even show you how to take it beyond what you previously wanted!

    In fact, here's just a sample of what I'll cover on this incredible eBook:

    * Find & Reconnect with the inner passion (transform your life better than before).

    ... and much, MUCH More!

    Don't miss this breakthrough eBook that will finally show you how to be happy once more, and ensure fulfilment & prosperity in your life again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrank Perez
    Release dateNov 18, 2017
    ISBN9781370161904
    Pushing Fifty, Still Pushing
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    Frank Perez

    Frank Perez is cofounder and current president of the LGBT+ Archives Project in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is an instructor in the Office of Professional and Continuing Studies at Loyola University New Orleans, owner of Crescent City Tour Booking Agency, and columnist for Ambush Magazine and French Quarter Journal. He is author of Treasures of the Vieux Carré: Ten Self-Guided Walking Tours of the French Quarter and coauthor of Southern Decadence in New Orleans; My Gay New Orleans: 28 Personal Reminiscences on LGBT+ Life in New Orleans; and In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar.

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      Pushing Fifty, Still Pushing - Frank Perez

      Pushing Fifty, Still Pushing

      By Frank Perez

      Copyright 2017 Frank Perez

      Smashwords Edition

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Chapter One

      For some of us, it’s in our natures to be looking for more in life. We’re not happy with the status quo and somehow we just know that working for someone else or in a large corporate entity is not meant for us.

      Other people in life just don’t understand this drive, this monster that lives within us. This monster that propels us to search for better ways of living our lives. They look at us like we’re nut-cases who really should be locked up in a padded cell and not left alone near any sharp objects and without adult supervision.

      Truly, there’s been times in my life when I’ve thought that maybe they were right and I wasn’t. That I’d wasted all that money, effort, time and talent chasing some shiny pot of gold that’s being guarded by a made up leprechaun in some fairy tale land that doesn’t exist, except within the confines of my own fevered imagination.

      Luckily for me, these moments don’t last. This nirvana does exist. It’s not something that you or I have made up. Motivational books and videos don’t dwell in the fantasy aisle, they sit in the real life section of book-stores and libraries - non-fiction and if you look closely, there’s lots of self-help, motivational guides, books and speakers out there pushing us to be better than we currently are. To keep looking for that shiny star, the gold at the end of the rainbow. I’ve read, listened and watched many of these. I’m not going to say that they’re full of crap but truly, be very careful about their advice, especially the ones that haven’t actually lived through anything themselves and are just repeating what they think people want to hear.

      I’m pushing fifty now and have always had that desire and drive within me, long before the age of the internet and the above mentioned gurus. That inner beast, the inner fire and desire is a part of me. It makes me who I am.

      Almost fifty and still pushing. Yet I still ask myself constantly - Where does this drive come from? By all measures, doing what I’m currently doing would be considered by most to be a success. I’ve been happily married for almost twenty five years with a beautiful, intelligent son & a six figure income - and yet, internally there is a drive and desire that burns at me, eats away at me and practically screams in my ear that there’s more to life.

      I know plenty of people that would kill to have my life and yet, the hunger still craves and the inner fire still burns. Why is that?

      I’ve tossed the dice in life so many times that I’ve lost count. Sometimes they come up a winner and other times snake-eyes. For some reason however, apart from a few times of self-pity and doubt, it hasn’t stopped me from trying another toss of the dice, another turn of the cards, another shot at the pot of gold with a new venture & business, when most people with half a brain would have given it up already and voluntarily walked into the padded cell.

      Somehow, I don’t believe that this desire will ever be satisfied, regardless of how well I do. It’s almost like an innate beast that dwells in my soul. A spirit that will continue to look for new things and new experiences until I take my last breath and even then I don’t think it will be satisfied.

      Perhaps this is what life is actually all about and people like me are normal? Or maybe it’s just the crazy thoughts and actions of a delusional mind and lost soul looking for some kind of comfort that’s never meant to be? Who knows? I sure don’t.

      All I know is that I’m pushing fifty and still pushing. That must count for something in the great big ledger of life. At least I hope so, or I’ve wasted my time until now.

      Want to learn from my mistakes? There’s a lot to learn and I’m still trying to organise my own thoughts on the process of my life up to this point and hopefully, still many more mistakes to come, because amongst all those mistakes have been some of the best times of my life as well as the worst. That’s life though, isn’t it?

      Hopefully some of these things that I’ve gone through will help someone out there. Maybe they won’t. Maybe you’ll think it’s useful or maybe you’ll think it’s all a bunch of made up, useless, boring stuff. That’s out of my control, the only thing that I do control is myself and what I do, and I sincerely hope that some of these lessons are helpful to someone out there. Who knows? One small snippet in this book may be enough to set the fire alight in someone out there who will go on to finding a cure for cancer. I hope so!

      Chapter 2 - The Immigrant Son

      Like all good stories and some bad ones I guess I should begin at the start.

      My parents were

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