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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mon_fi" data-source="post: 929277" data-attributes="member: 78083">I quit my job in Poland end of December 2020 promising myself to never ever have an office job again. I came back to Belgium on Christmas Eve. At 26, I ended up jobless, broke, and with absolutely zero will or wish to do anything. I wasn't depressed, nor lost. I was just blocked. Not to give myself excuses, but the loneliness I experienced in Poland hit me hard. I didn't really understand what the hell I was doing there in the end. I couldn't remember why I had come to Warsaw. All I knew was that I wanted to go home. I spent the last two weeks of 2020 and the first two weeks of 2021 agonizing on the couch of the house I was staying at, looking for energy, discipline, motivation, and the ONE thing that was going to enable all of the other things.  They were nowhere to be found. I had to make a change somehow. So I updated my diet, felt better, started a morning and gratitude journal, bought an air fryer, and used the energy it gave me to get myself back on track.After a lot of hesitation and thinking, I decided to learn copywriting very well for my Tinder website on one hand and to monetize the skill on the other. I spent the last two weeks of January and early February reading copywriting books, summarizing them, and built myself a copywriting structure made out of three parts: research, where I answer questions regarding the product; writing, where I write the 13 parts of a sales letter; verification, where I answer other questions to make sure the copy is good. I then translated the structure into French so that I could get jobs in French.Today I signed up on thee websites to get paid French writing jobs. We will see how it goes. To be honest, I am not so sure about this copywriting thing because I do not see where it will lead. I will earn a bit of money...and then what? It's not a business. It's not fastlane either. Maybe I should better focus on my Tinder website, since it is the most advanced money-making project I have at the moment. Then I could focus on the next step, like building an actual fastlane business instead of wasting time learning how to earn freelance money. With that thought in mind, I decided to quit my blog today. After 200 000 words and 120 articles, it's time to reflect and make a decision. Here's why I am stopping it: I did it all wrongI never chose a niche, never tried to look if what I was writing was already being written anywhere, my SEO sucked and overall, my ideas were probably too weird and abstract to be read. I started the blog writing for myself, then I shifted writing for other people. At the end of the day, the articles I wrote for myself did better than the ones I was writing for others. I still do not understand why, nor how. I just know results in general always go the opposite of my expectations. Where is this leading?Likely nowhere. I was writing because I enjoyed it and needed to communicate my ideas somehow. But it was taking time, no one liked my stuff but for me, and besides entertainment and mere mental masturbation, it didn't fulfill any purpose. I am still glad I did it because I learned sooooooo much and had to figure out a bunch of other stuff, but it has now become a black hole for time and mental resources. Yesterday I bought a new URL because I had a new idea for a blog I wanted to write, with a niche this time: freedom. I was going to write about freedom. I thought I'd divide the blog into three core principles- Lifestyle and philosophy- Business and money- Health and relationships I was going to sign up for hosting, but somehow, had some doubts before hitting "pay now". I decided to wait a bit and think about it. Then, 10 minutes ago, I understood why I was hesitant: I have no f*cking clue what the hell I am talking about. I am at the moment as dependent as a newborn, own no business, been struggling to build muscles for years, and have no real friends. I would be the worse one to write and give advice on freedom. I first need to attain the lifestyle before even pretending I could teach it. I follow a couple of people on Medium giving cool advice about freelance work, money hacks, etc. The reason why they have readers is that they know their shit. I don't. I am someone who writes about business but who has never built a profitable one (except that time when I got paid to create PP presentations my classmates didn't want to make). All I know about business is what I read in books. I could tell you how Warren Buffett got rich, but no one would give a f*ck about it because I am just vomiting what I have read somewhere else. And I can't prove I know what I talking about since my bank account is as empty as a black hole. I know I have action-faked a lot lately. Thinking about it, it's not so much failure that I fear. Failure is easy to deal with because nothing changes. Success though, isn't. One of my biggest fears, besides lacking money, is not to be up to the task. What if my Tinder website works and people start asking me questions I can't answer? What if I give wrong advice? I am paralyzed at the idea to produce work which is not valuable to anyone, and for which I shouldn't get paid as a result. So, that's something I need to work on. Maybe doing a couple of paid jobs on freelance platforms would help me out deal with that limiting belief. In the meantime, I'll start an internship at the EU next week so that I can earn something. The internship will last 5 months. So I better find some way to earn cash by the end of July, or I ll have to find a slowlane job. And I really don't want to.I have a couple of plans and ideas up my sleeve. I just need to choose one and focus on it like my life depended on it. I need to make it the sole purpose of my life, and stop being afraid to succeed at it.  I need to cut loose the projects that I like but that are not leading anywhere. This is not serious, and I need to get serious now. I need to start believing I can earn money and be financially independent. Tomorrow, I am going back into SEO because the ranking of my tinder website sucks. I need to figure out google analytics. And do keyword research and this type of thing. I guess focusing on my tinder website is the best I can do at the moment since it is my most advanced project. Once the website ranks high and got great copy, I'll be able to run ad campaigns, which will be a good occasion to learn how it is done and test the website. Then I guess I'll have to tweak the thing around until it works. Once that works, well...guess I'll have to start a real fastlane business. It's time to do it now or I'll never see the end of it. I have been writing about the book Personality isn't permanent for 8 days now. And the reason I am stuck is because I do not know where I am going. I have many goals, but hesitate every day about the one I should focus on.So Tinder website it is. The quicker it is done, the quicker I can focus on the next purpose, and the quicker I'll be able to build something sustainable. It's a marathon, not a sprint. And yet, in both cases, if you stop, you lose.</blockquote>

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