I’m back from hiking. I removed all my work apps from my phone (+ LinkedIn).

I feel good right now. Before I left, I worked intensely, but it wasn’t a burnout/fighting for survival type of working. Something switched at the start of this year. I’m working harder because I’m excited at how much I want to do.

This self belief, knowing it’s going to work out, is an interesting phenomenon. When I read about the famous athletes or founders of our time, they all seem to share a deep fundamental belief that they can achieve what they want to.

This is important to me because I didn’t have this starting out. The goals I set for what I wanted to achieve felt very remote. It was hard to have conviction in my vision when I was still working it through myself.

Most people were great started off just like you. They just iterated over a long period.