The lesson I didn’t need to be taught
My December tasks all failed. However by January finish, one thing wild occurred.
An sudden alternative got here in — from a channel I didn’t know might pay.
Now, it brings me 5x extra revenue than earlier than.
It’s solely as a result of I saved exhibiting up on-line even after I had no clue what I used to be doing.
Wanting again now, I can see it clearly: the breakdown was needed.
If Medium had saved paying me $2,000 a month perpetually, I might have stayed comfy. I might by no means have pushed myself to strive more durable, scarier issues. I might by no means have constructed revenue streams exterior of 1 fragile platform.
I needed to lose what I assumed was safety to search out actual stability.
And actual stability, I’ve discovered, doesn’t come from platforms or algorithms. It comes out of your willingness to maintain experimenting, to maintain exhibiting up, to maintain sharing your work even while you really feel like nobody cares.
The algorithm can take your revenue. It could actually’t take your braveness.
The breakdown you’re scared of might really be the breakthrough you didn’t know you wanted.
