Something is happening out there, and I think we need to talk about it.
I’m hearing it from more and more people right now, and I’ve been part of it too.
Fed up, burned out, maybe a little bit depressed, frustrated, feeling like we’re failing – and this is the really painful bit – at the very thing we gave up everything else to do. Maybe we left a full-time career to devote ourselves fully to being self-employed, to doing whatever it is we just knew – we still know – is our soul mission. The thing we were born to do.
For months and months, we’ve been waking up feeling as though that purpose is just gone. The enthusiasm isn’t there when we come to market ourselves, and neither is the creativity. We’ve hit the point where we’re thinking: ‘if I can’t be happy doing what I’m meant to be doing, how on earth am I gonna do this? What’s next? What is left for me? This was my purpose, and it’s not filling me up anymore.’
When that happens, the world starts to fade from colour into shades of black and white.
The world has been screaming negative energy into our conscious and subconscious minds for a long time now, and we are exhausted by it – burned out, running on empty, feeling increasingly hopeless in a way that goes much deeper than needing a break. This isn’t just burnout. It isn’t just life with ADHD if that’s part of our story, and it isn’t just a sign of the times. This is a massive universal shake-up, and it’s hitting the people who feel everything most deeply, hardest and longest.
When our enthusiasm and energy start to slide, our cash flow follows – and that’s the part nobody talks about. We start saying yes to work we know isn’t the right fit just for the cash, and resenting every minute of it. We feel that drudgery – oh my god, do I really have to post something online today, what can I recycle from a couple of years ago – and we stop opening the bank app because we already know what we’ll feel when we do.
We need to work on ourselves first, before anything else – bringing our life force, our inner flame, our higher self back into a place where they can grow again. Because when that starts to happen, everything shifts. The right work starts finding us again. The mornings start to feel different. The colour comes back.
I’m building something to help us do exactly that – together. A movement, a collective reignition, something affordable and powerful that anyone feeling this way can be part of. I’m not completely done shaping it yet, but I’m hearing from so many people who need this right now that I wanted to say: it’s coming. If it sounds like something you need, drop me a line and I’ll make sure you hear about it first.
Something to try this week.
Write down the answer to this question without editing yourself: what was it that used to make you feel glad to be alive in your business? Not the strategy, not the income targets – the actual feeling. The moment in a session, the email from a client, the idea that kept you up at night because you were too excited to sleep.
That thing hasn’t gone anywhere. We just need to find it and reignite it.
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