I almost lost everything 7 years ago but instead turned my life around

I almost lost everything 7 years ago but instead turned my life around. Seven years ago, I hit rock bottom in my life. I was in multiple six figures of debt from gambling addiction. My credit score was in the four hundreds. I was 60 pounds overweight. I was living paycheck to paycheck. I was wildly insecure and on the outside, you would think I had it all figured out. I had a six figure tech sales job. I had a ton of friends living in San Francisco, but on the inside, I was completely miserable and no one had any idea what was going on. And I was ready to call it quits until one day my mom caught me gambling for the last time and she gave me an ultimatum. And I had a decision. I could continue down the same path that I was on of self-destruction, self-sabotage, or I could finally give myself a chance at a new way of living and thinking. And here's what happened. I went back to San Francisco and I decided to start to align my behaviors, my actions, and my decisions and my choices with the person that I knew I was capable of being. I thought that I was just this insecure loser who was a degenerate gambler and this is what my life was just gonna be for the rest of my life. Instead, I started to realize that if I could align different behaviors, different choices, different actions every single day and choose differently, that I could rewire my way of thinking and change how I lived in the world. And what happened was over the next seven years, I paid off all the debt. My credit score is now in the high seven hundreds. I met the love of my life and I'm now married. I moved into my own house. I have a great six figure job at LinkedIn. I don't live paycheck to paycheck any longer. I have multiple six figures of savings and now I get to share my story and my lessons from my real life experience with the world. And things could be very different. I could not be here today if I didn't decide to make that choice to live differently. And so my message to you, for anyone that's struggling or anyone that feels stuck, just know that you are capable of living a new, different life for yourself. And it all starts with aligning your actions, your habits, your choices, and the behaviors every single day with your goals and the person that you wanna be. You can't be the person that says they want one thing and then does the other. The recipe is not complicated. It's simple. It's going to be difficult and throw time out of the equation because it's gonna take much longer than you think. I've been on this journey for seven years. But if you can do that inner work, I promise you you can rewire your brain and you can achieve the life that you think is impossible because right now I'm living in the life that I once prayed for and that I once thought was impossible. So if you wanna follow for more tips like this, I share lessons from my real life experience. I'm not some guru trying to sell you a course. I just wanna help others based on what I've been through and what I've learned. Peace.