Trading Health For Higher Chance of Success
Tags: Success, Self, Self-awareness, Self Improvement, Stress

I haven’t had a good night of sleep for a couple of weeks now. I live in an apartment close to the city and my neighbours are a nuisance to me. They have more than five kids all of the different ages. Sometimes they would play basketballs in their room, run up and down the stairs, or simply knocking on the hardwood floor lightly in irregular beats throughout the entire day. If you want to read more about it. I wrote an article.

Simply put, apartment living just isn’t treating me well. I also live with my other family members who occupy other corners of the apartment so I’m mostly in the living room with my mom during the day. My brother’s constant need to be online talking with friends mean being in my room next to him would give me anxiety hence, I’ve been sleeping on the family sofa for the majority of 2020 since I moved back home from university.

Maybe I am more sensitive but I’m pretty certain other people standing in my shoes would have also felt the same sense of dread and stress brought on by living too close to other people who are frequently stressed out themselves.

For various reasons, I decided to try and become my own boss instead.

I currently have two income sources I’m working on to try and become self-employed. I’m giving myself a year until the end of 2021 to make a full-time income from my online adventure. I’m thankful that my parents are allowing me to live at home rent-free for the time being. I’m planning on publishing 3 articles per day on my blog Haappier.com and Medium, and publish one comic per day for my other brand which is also an online eCommerce store. If however, I don’t succeed, I have a back-up plan. I’ll go back to school to get a useful college degree.

For obvious reasons I won’t be able to work whenever I wish since I have this whole neighbour problem. Thus, I’m staying up to work on my articles and comics between midnight to 5~7 Am. I take 1–2 separate naps during the day to keep me going. Thankfully, school is online and recorded and I only have three courses I need to take next semester. I’m finishing full-time study at the end of April 2021 after which I’d have all the time to dedicate to my businesses.

I know it’s not healthy to be working on my business instead of sleeping but I really got no choice. You gotta be there to understand just how unworkable it is to have them around. I’m not even going to try and explain further.

The main thing I’d like to express from this article is this,

“Having the energy, time, and space to work for your success is a luxury. Not everyone has it. If you do, cherish it. Don’t procrastinate, note that sometimes people have a lot more obstacles to jump over if they want to be successful”.

I yearn to be self-employed. If I lived in a detached house where I’d be able to rest properly on time each night, space for myself to recharge and have silence for company I’d be meeting success easier. There would simply be fewer obstacles in the way.

Victories are told by the successful and those with more hurdles to jump over don’t necessarily become successful.

The true path to success is different for everyone and so are the obstacles you’d have to face along the journey.

I’m telling you what mountains I’d have to move on my path to success because you may be facing similar mountains too.

Don’t get discouraged looking at how fast others are going, you’re on a different path my friend. Life is not fair. Life is not about comparison. Focus on your own journey for one day you’d look back and glad you gave it a try even if you had to try harder.

You’ll be there, even if it might take you longer with extra effort, and with more sacrifices.

Don’t give up. Learn from your mistakes, refine your technique, keep ongoing. The reward is worth the extra try.