By the Ocean
Sunny 75 Degrees
8:44 a.m.
When you don’t know what else to do, figure out how to be more useful to the world tomorrow than you are today.
What could that look like?
How useful you are to a specific group of people means the difference between constant struggle and ever-flowing success in business.
Some people get lucky with their first attempt at this. Others take a lot longer to figure things out. Some have everything “work,” end up surrounded by tons of money, and realize they are miserable.
Every outcome is fine provided you don’t quit. It’s just feedback you can use for your next step on the journey to figuring out how to be more useful. Comparing your journey to someone else’s is only something you do if you want to be miserable and slowly drive yourself crazy.
The last two decades of my life are a never-ending experiment in how to be useful to the world. I expect the experiments to go on forever, which is why I’m still sane.
Expectations are often the problem. When you expect nothing and intend everything, you shift your experience of the entire quest.