TLDR:
- To find true happiness, is internal. Work on projects that you find fun and satiate your soul rather than sulking over the fact that it realistically cannot be worth a million dollars. Otherwise, you’ll never be happy.
Attaining that drive again when you’ve lost it
As entrepreneurs, one way or another, whether or not you explicitly say it, the feedback loop we’ve set for ourselves, be it consciously or subconsciously, is around happiness.
We want to feel good about ourselves by receiving praise from our circle on what it is we’re currently working on, returning customers, and those who have only good things to say every time they visit and purchase something.
But at the end of the day, that’s all artificial.
Those are all external factors that you’ve essentially made yourself psychologically dependent on just to feel happy.
And yet, it’ll eventually dawn on you that you’ll never be truly happy that way.
Instead, true happiness only comes from inside you; internally.
As bitter as it may be to admit it, not everything has to make a million dollars. As cliche, as it is, true happiness is priceless.
If there are things you want to do but are worried about how well they’d be received, see it all the way through merely for personal satisfaction.
Sometimes, to seek happiness, you have to be selfish like a child, completing projects that you find fun and satiate your soul by putting your ideas out to the world and attracting people into your circle who find it interesting.
Your spirit and creativity will continue burning within you, by separating what makes money from what you’re truly interested in.
Naturally, your money-making ventures should be an intersection of the two, but if that isn’t the case, then they should still be done regardless because you know you’ll have a good time.
You’d not only be truly happy but perhaps stumble upon that golden opportunity you’ve been searching for all this time coincidentally, just because you were working on something for the sake of it.
This drive to true happiness is what I personally discovered myself after about two years of running a newsletter and experiencing inconsistent success.
Sometimes, it’s not that you’re bad at it, it just isn’t meant to be. But instead, convert that into energy unleashed where you go all out like Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and Virat Kohli.