STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING, THIS MIGHT BE THE MOST PAINFULLY TRUE THING YOU HEAR ALL WEEK…
I was in the middle of one of my grind mode phases, you know, working late, stacking tasks, chasing 10 different ideas, convincing myself I was building something. And then someone from this community said something that felt like a punch to the ego: You’re working hard… but you’re not working right. For a second, I froze. Not because it was rude… but because it was true in a way I hadn’t admitted to myself. I was exhausting myself in circles. Running fast but going nowhere. Confusing movement with progress. I kept telling myself, If I work harder, something will finally click But all I got was more confusion, more overwhelm, and more unfinished ideas. That sentence, that one brutally honest sentence, flipped a switch in my mind. It made me question everything: Why was I pushing so hard on things that weren’t even aligned with where I wanted to go? Why was I chasing ideas instead of building direction? Why was I busy instead of effective? So I stopped. I reevaluated everything. I stripped away what wasn’t working. And for the first time, I started putting my energy where it actually mattered. And guess what? The moment I stopped working blindly and started working right, things moved faster than they ever did when I was grinding myself into the ground. Sometimes the biggest breakthrough isn’t doing more… it’s realizing the way you’re doing it is the thing holding you back. __ What’s one uncomfortable truth someone told you that forced you to rethink everything?