How taking things slow still leads to good results
On people reminding us of things we do, achieving your goals while taking things slow, and envisioning your rich life.
Hi friends & new subscribers,
How are you?
So my last newsletter wasn’t properly sent out last Monday. That's what happens when you do things late at night. The moment I realized that I didn't send it, I quickly sent it on Thursday.
I'm so glad I did because I received a heartwarming email from Jero, AND he wrote a Medium post 1 regarding this topic. Moments like this are what I’m reminded of what I continue to show up, write even if it feels like nothing is happening.
My coach used to tell me that your healing is someone else's medicine. She was a very spiritual coach, so some of the stuff she taught didn't make sense to me at that time.
And from this email, I think that's what she meant.
Once you overcome whatever you're going through, and you get the courage to share it with the world, you'll touch someone's life at one point or another.
As long as you're genuine and true to yourself.
🧘 How Taking Things Slow Still Leads to Good Results
This week, I received a really good email from two of my writing idols on the Internet world.
I can't spare the details yet, but we are hopefully in the process of working together. Writing is one of the things I really really want to be good at, so I challenged myself to reach out to the people I admired to work with them.
When I sent in my test piece for them, I didn't expect anything. I did my best in it because I wanted to prove to myself (not them) that I can do this. I wanted to experience writing long-form pieces while getting paid for it.
I expected tons of feedback on the piece. After all, I was writing for people who knew what good writing was.
So receiving the email that they loved my piece and offered me more work was a really good sign that I'm somewhat okay at writing. Fyi, I don't think I'm bad at writing, but I also don't think my writing is great. I think that there's always room to improve so that my ego doesn't take over.
I realized that after receiving those emails, my thoughts went like, "What's next? What's the next challenge I can do? Who else should I reach out to?" And the chill part of me was like, "Whoa, calm down. How about take a deep breath, and relax. You were able to achieve things without burning out, so why start now?"
So this week, I took things even slower than the past few weeks. I spent time with my family, my friends, go to the beach, and reflect on how far I've come.
You can achieve amazing things by taking things slowly.
Although, I was hesitant to buy myself a gift to celebrate this tiny achievement. I couldn't just buy things because I wanted to without any reason. So, that's something I need to work on in the upcoming weeks.
If you can't celebrate your tiny achievements, how can you celebrate your big achievements?
✍️ Writing Journey:
It's been slow, and I'm not proud of it. My last published post on Medium was two weeks ago. I am thinking of re-strategizing my game for publishing for myself vs. publishing for my clients without the burnout.
In the meantime, I wanted to share something interesting that I heard. I was listening to Tim Ferris' podcast interview with Ramit Sethi, the author of I will teach you to be rich. I've heard good things about the book but never read it.
Ramit shared the vision exercise he uses with his clients. "What does your rich life look like?" Some of them answered things like, "not looking at the price when I'm shopping at whole foods" or "ordering appetizers without feeling guilty." I thought it was so interesting because I never thought about having a "rich life."
If you have the time, I encourage you to try it out to know what you're working towards, and you'll know that you're there.
For the record, even though I'm not rich, I feel like I'm living a rich life compared to a year ago.
🤔 Question for you this week:
Are you still working towards the same goal you wanted six months ago?
Went to the beach last week, and this was my toolkit.
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With love 💌 ,
Jerine