On embracing the tough times

If you are following my stories closely, you know that I promised to publish two articles a month: one book summary of the previous month at the beginning of the month, and one reflection/realisation/life hack article in the middle of the month. Why did nothing come out on June 15th? I have been struggling with a couple of issues professionally and personally for the past couple of weeks and when the time came to write an article that is supposed to “give people advice”, I felt like this would be obnoxiously inauthentic to give people advice when I am at a moment when I need advice with multiple different things. I took a break for travel, reconnected with myself, reorganised a couple of things and… to be honest, I am still in a state where I feel overwhelmed by chaos and the number of things that are going on. Yet the difference is that now I am okay with the struggle, I understand its purpose. Given that everyone now is saying that a recession is coming, I think it is an important time to talk about ways to deal with plans falling through, obstacles coming up. Thus, I decided to share a couple of ways I use to realign with my long term plans below. Enjoy :)

And what do we do when we are struggling? We book a flight.

Keeping just “in touch” with plans

I listen to plenty of podcasts but my unquestionable #1 is Zaprojektuj Swoje Życie by Maciej Filipkowski (Eng: “Design Your Life”). Maciej interviews succesful entrepreneurs and…