It’s funny how much time and energy and frustration I would have saved in my life had I been braver. Good thing I now know that the quickest route to having an unfair advantage over the seething masses is not in doubling my output or being busier or making more things to share, though these […]
Just as I have repeatedly made mistakes, I’ve spent my life surprising myself. Over and over and over again. Mistake. Surprise. Mistake. Mistake. Surprise. Mistake. Surprise. I’ve lost myself to despair from failures. I’ve felt the elation that erupts from taking courage and pulling through. I’ve experienced the joy that comes from surprising myself. The
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I know what it’s like to go through the day disorganised, and without knowing what I’m doing. I know how a day can be swallowed whole by the lure of tasty and stimulating distractions. I know the frustration of having a busy day, and working hard, yet feeling like I’m running in one spot not
You feel miserable. Life is hard. Everyone sucks. Nobody pays attention to you. Nobody respects you enough. You feel low. You’re depressed. Your anxiety is surging. You try all the cures. They tell you to take pills. You take them, but they only add a layer of ointment on top of your deeper ‘problems.’ Ultimately
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We get frustrated because we aren’t progressing as we had planned. We aren’t there with the traction we hoped we’d be getting with all this work we’re putting in. We’re not getting enough of them dratted likes, follows, pings, pokes, thumbs ups, and subscribes. And little Johnny Genius over on YouTube seems to be getting all
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What’s the solution? Do we need to stop hiding? Not quite. That would mean taking on the additional burden of trying to ‘not hide.’ That takes work. The solution is to change your thinking. Remember your current philosophy? ‘The right thing is to be a good person.’ Here’s your new philosophy: ‘I am flawed, weird,
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I had someone email me recently that their lack of purpose was driving them crazy. They felt lost; trapped. Surely the solution, if you are lost, is to figure out where you want to go. Right? Isn’t it easy? When we’re in a city we don’t know, and we are lost, what do we do?
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If someone were to ask me what words I’d use to describe working for myself, many would come to mind… StressfulFrustratingUnstableScaryDraining (mentally and of cash) Of course, these are not words and emotions that are in play constantly, and they are rarer for me now, but it hasn’t always been sunshine and daffodils. Many times
When I am a victim… …I feel a weight on my shoulders. It’s pushing down so that I bend slightly at the knees. It’s what they call my ‘ego.’ Every time life was unfair to me; my ego has inflated a little more. Now I carry it around. I have to trudge under the weight.
