First, an admission of failure. “The Big Drive 2025” for me is a complete bust.
Making money for the sake of making money simply isn’t motivating me. There was value for me in analyzing my past processes, and writing them up in a series of articles for others, but returning to that specific playbook is not working.
Because I’m not the same person.
There’s an old quote that I feel is relevant in this moment:
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” (Heraclitus)
I made the mistake of assuming I could be the same man, and cross the same river.
And maybe this was a lesson I needed to learn, by putting myself into the river again.
And here I am now writing and sharing it, because that is also what I do. This is what is coming up to write about.
And maybe this is what failures look like for me now, as I’ve opened myself up to more of that.
I’m using failure as a catalyst, because chasing “more” success is feeling empty.
For me, the challenge is no longer trying to achieve freedom, but learning how to create from it.
All the while attempting to quiet those voices within me that continue to push me, that I never have or am enough.
The thing is, when I’ve gotten clarity on enough, it’s been greatly liberating.
I write for 100 people every week. I determined that was enough many years ago, and it has allowed me to write and express myself in ways that most people couldn’t comprehend.
So, “enough” in that case didn’t prevent me from creating hundreds of articles. It fueled it, just as it is right now as I’m creating this one.
Maybe that’s the real point of achieving freedom – not to stop, but to start creating from a completely different place.
I’ll be here, wrestling with these questions every Wednesday.
Because that’s what freedom really looks like.
What about you? How do you define freedom? How might it change once you’ve achieved it?
