Quadruple down on what you’re good at.

The details of every step of what you do might not be enjoyable or a source of pleasure for you, but still, make sure that the overall career of yours is something that you’re truly passionate about. Again, even if there are moments during it that make you hate yourself.

You don’t have to love the entire process. Just that this is the type of career that you’d prefer over anything else in the world, and you’d even want to do it even if you cannot monetize it.

Just because it’s not sun shine and bunnies every step of the way doesn’t mean that this is not the career of choice for you, or that you don’t love or are not truly passionate about this type of career. If you weren’t, even the easy days would feel like torture or hell. You wouldn’t be able to tolerate anything about its entirety. You’d be trying to convince yourself that you should just keep doing it despite hating everything about it just for the money. It will be like hating your spouse or resenting them but staying just for the kids. You will end up waiting for time to pass quickly without you feeling it took long to pass every day or every moment you spend on this type of work so that you can get the next paycheck or earn money from this boring task, project, or business model.