What’s the ROI of everything you do? Will anything pay off eventually? Why am I doing this? When will the money come? Is every single thing that I do essential to get me to the kind of life that I always dreamed of? When will I ever solve my problems or make my life better? When will I ever get out of the tough situation I’m stuck in?

Intention matters. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Every time you make a piece of content, you ask yourself: how is that going to solve all my problems. How is that going to make me reach all my career goals. How is that going to transfer me to the financial independence that I have always wanted.

It won’t.

Getting a job might make a ton of instant gratification in terms of fixing all of your financial problems right away.

That kind of one solution fixes all, in one step, in just a minute, is not found in entrepreneurship. It’s not found in any alternate route to fixing your problems, getting your life together, or figuring everything out aside from the get a job route.

I’m not saying any job would do the trick. All I’m saying that a job can do the trick. Entrepreneurship can’t.

No single step would make you no longer worry about financial struggles or issues again.

In fact, no single step would ever get you anywhere.

There is no transformation.

You keep trying, over and over again, until the change takes place so gradually you didn’t even notice it.

To the extent that you don’t feel that there’s anything happening in your life.

No difference. It is all pointless.

And then you take a look at others who seemingly made it in one year, or even two years, and your spirit of giving up is complete. You don’t need further convincing. Everybody made it but you. And it’s going to remain like this forever.

Unless every single step is an achievement in itself. Unless you have intrinsic motivation for all those countless useless single steps. Attrition will take good care of you. It will leave nothing behind.

It’s not about doing what you love. It’s about every single step of the way being enough in and of itself.

Every video you make is enough.

Every DM you respond to is enough.

Every zoom call is more fun than gaming.

There’s no agenda. There’s no ulterior motive that you keep pushing yourself through each and every one of those steps, tasks, or projects, until until you reach it someday.

Every achievement is its own reward.

If it is not, then I think it’s time for you to get a job.