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