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The Truth About Passive Income (It's Not What the Gurus Are Selling You)
I believed the version I was sold for longer than I would like to admit. The version where passive income was this clean and effortless thing that successful people had figured out and that the rest of us were one course or one strategy away from accessing. The imagery was always the same. Someone on a beach, laptop optional, money arriving in their account while they lived their life unbothered by the ordinary demands of work. It was a compelling picture and it was, in the way that most compelling pictures are, a significant simplification of a much more complicated reality..
By Lara Croft7 months ago in Journal
The System That Keeps Me Consistent Even When I Don’t Feel Like It
Let me tell you about the version of me that relied entirely on motivation to get things done. That version was productive in unpredictable bursts and largely unreliable in the stretches between them. When the motivation was present the output was good and the momentum felt sustainable. When the motivation was absent, which was more often than I wanted to admit, almost nothing got done and the gap between what I had intended to produce and what I actually produced became a source of quiet guilt that made starting again the next day feel harder rather than easier..
By Lara Croft7 months ago in Journal
The Simple Daily Routine I Used to Go From Inconsistent to Unstoppable
I want to be honest about what inconsistency actually looked like in my life before I address how I moved out of it. Because I think the word gets used in a way that implies laziness or indifference and that was not my experience at all. I was not inconsistent because I did not care. I was inconsistent because I cared enormously and that enormous caring made the stakes feel so high that showing up imperfectly felt worse than not showing up at all..
By Lara Croft7 months ago in Journal
The Silent Epidemic: Why Smart People Stay Trapped in Jobs They Hate
I know intelligent people who have been quietly miserable in their careers for years. Not people who lack ambition or self awareness or the capacity to imagine something different. Some of the sharpest most perceptive people I have encountered personally are the ones who seem most thoroughly stuck in professional situations that stopped serving them a long time ago. And the intelligence itself, which you might expect to be the thing that solves the problem, turns out to be part of what makes the trap so effective.
By Lara Croft7 months ago in Journal
The Scarcity Mindset Is Literally Wired Into Your Brain — Here's How to Undo It
I used to think that my scarcity mindset was a personal failing. A weakness of character, a smallness of thinking, a limitation that other more evolved people had somehow transcended while I remained stuck in a way of seeing the world that made everything feel like not enough. When I heard people talk about abundance thinking it sounded like something available to a certain kind of person and I was quietly certain I was not that kind of person.
By Lara Croft7 months ago in Journal
The Real Reason You Keep Quitting Before You See Results
I want to start with something that might be uncomfortable to read. The reason most people quit before they see results is not because the thing they were building was not working. It is because they quit before the thing they were building had enough time to work. The quitting creates the failure rather than responding to it and by the time most people realize this they have already repeated the cycle enough times to have genuinely convinced themselves that they are simply not someone things work out for..
By Lara Croft7 months ago in Journal
The Permission Slip You've Been Waiting for to Start Your Online Journey
I spent a long time waiting for something I could not quite name. It was not more information because I had consumed more information than I knew what to do with. It was not more time because the time I had was already going unused in the ways that mattered. It was not a better idea or a more favorable set of circumstances or a sign that the moment had arrived and the conditions were finally right..
By Lara Croft7 months ago in Journal
The One Question That Cured My Fear of Starting Anything New
I have started a lot of things in my life with fear sitting right next to me uninvited. Fear of failure, fear of judgment, fear of investing genuine effort into something and discovering at the end of it that the effort was not enough or that I was not enough or that the whole thing had been a mistake from the beginning. That fear was not always loud or dramatic. Most of the time it was quiet and ambient, a low level resistance that made the distance between thinking about starting and actually starting feel much larger than it logically should have been..
By Lara Croft7 months ago in Journal
How Did Washington’s Biggest Annual Dinner Transformed Into Chaos And A Crime Scene
There are nights designed for optics. And then there are nights that expose truth. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was meant to be a celebration. A ritual of democracy where power and the press share a table, exchange laughter, and perform civility.
By Omasanjuwa Ogharandukun7 months ago in Journal
I Disappeared for Two Months. No Phone. No people. No noise.. AI-Generated.
People assumed it was a breakdown or a spiritual crisis.. or they simply looked at me as if I’d lost my mind. It was none of those things. I just wanted to see what was actually going on inside my own mind, and I suspected the only way to do that properly was to remove everything else first.
By Giorgia Bettili7 months ago in Journal
The Money Mindset Shift That Completely Changed My Financial Reality
There was a version of my life where I thought about money almost constantly and almost always from a place of anxiety. Not the productive kind of thinking that leads to decisions and plans and forward movement but the circular worried kind that revisits the same fears without resolving them and leaves you feeling drained without having actually done anything. I knew what was in my account to the dollar. I knew what was coming out and when. I tracked it all with a precision that looked like financial responsibility from the outside but felt like low grade panic from the inside..
By Lara Croft7 months ago in Journal
