Stop feeling guilty for spending so much time and energy on what makes you feel alive. Stop feeling guilty for spending a huge amount of time and energy every single day to create something.

Your focus on making money is ruining everything. I’m not saying you’re corrupt. I’m just saying that you only care about getting clients and lead generation.

You came here to chase what you love. To follow your passion. To live up to your full potential. To live in alignment with your core values. To do what you’re truly meant to be doing with your life. To do what you really want.

You came here chasing fulfillment. You came here chasing true success. You came here to make the most out of your talent. You came here to be happy. You came here to live your life to the fullest. But in the process, somewhere along the way, you became consumed by focusing on survival over everything else, thinking that by eliminating the causes of stress out of your life, you will have all the time and clarity in the world to focus on what you truly desire. What makes you feel alive. You became obsessed with the means to an end, and you forgot all about the end itself. You thought that this is okay to do all the time, because it was not a wrong thing in and of itself to do. After all, paving the way to focus on doing what you’re passionate about full-time without worrying about money is essential, and is not a bad thing to do, right? Absolutely. But you did nothing but just that. You did nothing but pave the way. You did nothing beyond just that. You became all about making money and maintaining the success of your business, with disregard to following your passion.

And that’s why you can’t feel pleasure, despite doing everything right. That is why you can no longer feel good, even though you’re doing what you love. And you think that this is burnout, when it has nothing to do with burnout. No longer feeling good despite doing what you’re passionate about is part of burnout, right? But in your case, it happened not because you’ve been working too much doing what you’re passionate about, but instead, it’s because you haven’t done anything that falls under the category of what you’re truly passionate about for a long, long time. You’re not doing what you’re passionate about enough, to say the least. But you are still entitled to the same amount or type of reward that you can only get from doing what you’re truly passionate about. And you are wondering why you aren’t getting any of that type of reward at all, despite doing everything right. You came here to be creative. But you’re all about business now. Just business, nothing personal.

But you are totally oblivious to the fact that you can’t be happy if you are totally disconnected from yourself or from the universe, or at least from the rest of the world. You can consume the content of other people all you want, but you will still feel isolated, if you never show up, if you never put anything out there. Taking care of survival won’t alleviate the feelings of isolation and emptiness you have. Only staying connected to the universe can. And in order to connect to the universe, you have to interact with it. In order to connect to the universe, you have to post.