A revelation is an odd sensation.
You construct it as much as be this space-bending, time-stopping, world-altering second. Like the films . The whole lot modifications from that second on.
In precise truth although, none of that occurs.
I’ve discovered most revelations come by means of reflection, not by means of the expertise itself. More often than not I didn’t realise it was a revelation till I revisited the second in my head months later. In truth, most revelations improve in gravity the extra I mirror on them.
One revelation that has had the largest influence on my life is the one-person enterprise mannequin.
For a very long time, work meant a trade-off.
A trade-off of time and happiness. Work, as my mum and pa used to say, is within the identify, it’s work. You’re not meant to love it. And that’s been the accepted narrative for the longest whereas.
A job isn’t meant to be fulfilling or releasing.
A job is to earn cash in order that outdoors of labor you are able to do the belongings you truly love to do. You receives a commission, that’s the reward. And in order that’s type of what individuals did. They took jobs that paid that crammed their pockets however uncared for their soul.
The concept of liking what you do for a dwelling, that’s a comparatively new thought.
For a very long time, I assumed there have been solely two paths in life.
- Work for someone else.
- Individuals work for me.
In different phrases, work on someone else’s enterprise or work by myself. I at all times thought I’d do the latter till I attempted managing. Managing 4 individuals was sufficient to solidify the truth that I didn’t need my very own enterprise. I hated managing individuals.
I got here to the uncomfortable realisation: I wished to only take care of myself.
Possibly I’d be a guide or someone that simply labored a job endlessly. There was no means I wished a whole bunch of individuals working for me, I couldn’t think about the…