It’s easy to turn something you enjoy into a scoreboard.
A lot of people start writing because they love to read and share their ideas. And then they start focusing on views. They start thinking, “What should I do to earn more money?”
That’s how many writers end up as podcasters or YouTubers. And after a while, they find themselves burnt out because they didn’t sign up for becoming a glorified views-chaser.
Many of us fall for this trap.
Most of our suffering is useless. Eckhart Tolle wrote a line in Stillness Speaks that I often think of: “Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.” He is of course referring to the mental suffering that so many of us go through every […]
Working hard won’t make you rich. I know that’s not what we’ve grown up hearing. We’ve heard the opposite. It doesn’t work that way, though… At least not the way we’ve been promised. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Even if you work hard […]
Last week I was walking through town with my wife and our son in the stroller. We ran into a former high school classmate. We were both pleasantly surprised to see each other after so many years. He looked at my wife and said: “He […]