Some entrepreneurs wonder why their energy has left them.
They seem to work the same way they did ten years ago, yet something broke.
Discipline? Plenty. Willpower? Excessive. Opportunities? Sky-high.
If only not for one tiny detail.
The Desire is gone.
It was there once. Now it has left. You want nothing. Absolutely nothing.
What will you do, entrepreneur?
Convince yourself with arguments? Laughable. Appeal to conscience? Enough for a week.
“I sit on the board of directors, I speak the words, but I am not there,” admits the founder of a company worth half a billion dollars.
You can distract yourself with new startups, climbing mountains, or safaris. The body stubbornly shakes its head: “None of this is it.”
Not always, but often the reason is this:
The person has lost touch with his sacred center.
He forgot it—or worse—he trampled the source of living water himself.
Lungs without air. Child without mother's milk. Bonfire without logs.
Should it surprise you that you feel so bad now?
The good news is that the situation can often be reversed quickly.
Start with a list of “small things” that, for some reason, personally for you:
give pleasure,
bring quiet joy,
light up beauty,
bring back peace,
fill life with meaning,
open a portal to new ideas.
Write everything exactly as it is—honestly, immodestly, selfishly, shamelessly.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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