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Is Life getting boring?

Having a "Shiny Object Syndrome" will keep you stuck, with little hope of progress

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Stevewinroad
Apr 21, 2023
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As writers and business owners, we're always focused on the lagging numbers

How many views on my post, what’s the revenue number, what's the net profit etc.

If you stare at it all day, it's not going to change

What really matters is daily inputs

How many conversations did I start, did i make effort to write something today no matter how ugly it may appear, how many offers did we make etc.

And doing them consistently.

There's no magic bullet to success in this game.

It's just consistent daily inputs for an unreasonable amount of time

It's actually pretty boring

Part of what has been making life appear boring for me these days is the fact that for almost a year now I haven’t dressed up for work. So most social interactions with bosses, coworkers and random “friends” plus the daily life office hassles has been eliminated.

I looked at the kids playing around the block today but noticed I couldn’t play with them. It made me miss all my nephews and nieces and which i had my family.

I decided not to practice after long years of study and internships ….

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