I recently took a long break from social media and in large part internet use all together.
Why?
Because I was burnt out. I needed a break to recollect and to recharge.
You see, I work hard, and I hustle as much as I possibly can. I've been working what equates to two, sometimes three, jobs for 15 years - and I get tired.
After all that time freelancing and/or working contracts, I've finally realized that I've been working hard to make other people happy and/or wealthy. That hit me hard. I grew up believing if you work hard and put in your time, eventually you get yours. Scraping by and barely surviving is not that promised scenario, however. The world has changed.
While I had my head buried trying to reach that fictional goal I was promised, I failed to realize people like Steve Jobs were out there changing how things worked. The good news though is that now is a great time to realize my dreams. I have stories to tell. I have things I want to make. And I have all the tools I need to make it happen save the time and capital required to carve these things out.
But there are ways to find (or make) the time if I can put aside the capital. One of the major issues with my time/money ratio over the years, however, was that I spent so much time making other people's projects that I didn't have time for my own. So change is required. I'm working on that, and Steem may be part of it - we'll see. All I know for sure is what I've been doing does not work.
More as things develop...
My #steemgig posting:
https://steemit.com/steemgigs/@har5h/create-professional-illustrations-andor-graphic-designs-for-you
Follow my Patreon and become a Patron to see some of these projects come together!
It's important to take a break from time to time for sure, I can get way too involved and deep into things and even if it seems so important, I can't be of much of a help it if I don't try to balance the rest of my life more and I'm too tired from putting too much energy in and not resting enough. Anyways.. Sorry to interrupt on your page in an unrelated way but I tagged you the other day in an official post on my page in regards to the IFC finals and haven't heard back from you yet so I wanted to try to get in touch with you on your most recent blog post and see if you'll be available to compete in the sweet 16 finals?
If you'll be too busy or something like that you can delegate someone else to play for you and you can share the prize however you want together if they win or whatever, or we can pick the next highest ranked person as well if you don't want to delegate to anyone specifically.
The first challenge in the finals will be this coming Saturday the 23rd.
And it will be a photo scavenger hunt challenge so you'll need access to some kind of camera or a phone with a camera. If this is a problem once you again you can delegate to someone else to have them work with you to complete it together and share the reward, or just bow out and give your spot to someone with no strings attached.
There's more information at this link I'll be including below, like who you will be facing up against and such, so if you could go here and leave a comment letting me know if you can play or not that'd be great, or you can just directly respond to this comment as well. Thanks either way, hope you get a chance to play and congrats for making it into the sweet 16 finals of the IFC! :D
https://steemit.com/contest/@apolymask/the-ifc-sweet-16-finals-announcements-are-here
Sorry to interrupt on your thread again in an unrelated way.. But.. Hey har5h! I'm not sure if you've seen this or not yet but I wanted to make sure you were aware that the first round of the IFC finals has started.
https://steemit.com/contest/@ifc/ifc-finals-first-round
PS I seem to remember last time I got a hold of you on discord, so I'll probably send you a message on discord as well.
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