I took a 2 week break from blogging. It was a period of demotivation in my full time job. Now, I’d have thought my full time job would not have such a significant bearing on my life given my new business idea. I was wrong. I was really surprised as I’m a 200% positive positive person and have been 200% motivated on my business goal since I got into the idea about a year ago. Regardless, I’m glad I am out of the demotivated phase and with a lesson learned that I can deal with these demotivations along the way. Life isn’t perfect. 2 things that helped me out of the demotivated phase below.
Visualisation of shorter term goals
I had forgotten about one of my mini goals. The goal was for me to rent a beautiful Parisian apartment for 2 months to celebrate the end of my corporate career and to welcome my ikigai business career while getting inspiration from the city. I have a clear visual of the Haussmann building with the Parisian view balcony, herringbone flooring with the white marble fireplace and vintage gold mirror…where I would base myself for 2 months to explore the city for 3 hours/day, learn French for 1 hour/day and work for 4 hours/day while relaxing for 8hours/day doing whatever I feel like for the day.
ChatGPT gave Airbnb as an option so I searched and saved 5 places within my budget. I’ll keep searching for a perfect place for the next few years ❤️
I wasn’t blogging but I was actually doing some work the past month. 2 weeks of working on my product, got it to a draft e-version to test out with 8 of my acquaintances. I’ve run through with 3 so far, 2 of their feedbacks have been incorporated and the third is still pending my revisions. I’m proud of the steps I’ve taken to date! My goal still remains to launch the freebie by end September 💪
Achieve simple-to-achieve inspirations
I’m sure everyone has a few small to dos in their list that are easy to achieve but yet left undone. Shopping for my family bath towels for each of the bathrooms has been in my list. This weekend, I researched on the 100% Egyptian cotton luxurious and aesthetic looking towels to try. That has uplifted my mood with relative ease. It was simple to get me inspired and got me into a slightly uplifted mood.
Doing what I like
I realised that maybe my ikigai is financial planning for myself. Very odd as I find myself reviewing and changing numbers and thinking about my financial numbers of my monthly financial spreadsheets.
Whenever I didn’t feel like doing anything else, I would be attracted to the spreadsheet. Anyway, even better, as I finally realised that I would be financially free as I start my ikigai business! I increased the capital investment gain from 3%(this was too conservative, I might as well keep in USD cash whose interest is ˜5%) to 7%. I changed the % after listening to a long term investor who said S&P 500 over the past 10 years gave ˜10% gain YoY. This really gave me a booster for me to keep going 😁💲
Declaring that I’d get out of my demotivated phase to my entreprenuer friend for accountability
I declared to close friends that I would get out of my demotivated phase. So I had to get out of it 😄. In a serious note, I re-read my 2 most recent blogs, especially the one where I talked about what I was doing as a 2 month old blogger and surprisingly got inspired to write.
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