Lesson 13: How to Create Philosophy for Your Side Hustle and for Dream Career
The truth about sticking to it.
Hi there,
After a year of writing online, I have learned something important. I had come to believe it was impossible for me.
And I thought of sharing with you in today’s lesson.
So let’s get into it.
The expectation vs the reality
While growing up most of us have ambitions to rule the world, build an empire for ourselves, and do things that bring us the ultimate joy and happiness.
Do things that we love and feel proud of.
But amidst all these things, life hits you.
You start making a compromise to fit in, to live a certain lifestyle, and all of a sudden time has passed.
And when we are old, we wish, what if we could have taken a different path, what if we tried a few bolder steps, what if…..
But the reality is time never comes back.
“My goal is not to wake up at forty with the bitter realization that I’ve wasted my life on a job I hated because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens.” ‒ Daria
The bitter truth
Starting a side hustle or just changing a career won’t change anything.
Like everything else in life, your side hustle also needs consistency.
No matter how much you love it. There will be days when you will not feel like doing it. Your motivation will start slipping away.
No matter how much you love your side hustle or the career you got yourself into.
After certain days, when excitement fads away, you will realize it was nothing like that at all.
The looming reality was that almost everything was the same.
I woke up annoyed some days. Some days I didn’t want to face the day.
Some days I felt like crawling back into bed and giving up, some days I did.
Realization
Honestly, most days, It’s been pure hard work.
Sometime back I began to wonder, is it my expectation of happiness, or being successful all of time killing me ,or the love I have for my career?
All those failed attempts, maybe they were because I had miscalculated my happiness, or rather, the expectation of my happiness.
Is the pressure, or the constant obsession to decide who we are and what we are going to be doing with our lives?
The new mindset I live by now
Stop thinking and dreaming about how happy this thing will make you.
Stop obsessing about your success, it will kill the joy out of it.
So instead, spend more time doing and enjoying yourself along the way.
Show up for yourself.
And start enjoying the process.
Gather the strength, the patience, and the curiosity to live in the moment, even if the moment is awful.
Be happy in the unhappiness.
Cry, kick and scream.
Experience that awfulness, but don’t turn away from it or ignore it.
Celebrate how far you have come.
Take some time out, and remind yourself why you are doing this.
Re-touch with that passion you had at the beginning.
Everything will start making all the sense in the world.
Trust me.
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