I just made a video for my serendipity YouTube channel that likely will get less than 30 views. Ironically, the videos I spend the most time on often seem to get the fewest views. So are they even worth doing? Last night, I spent ninety minutes brainstorming with AI about a new 2-3 minute video. I still have to shoot it, edit it, post it, and perhaps write about it here.
Does that make sense? I tell myself, “Trust the process. You’re working on your craft. You’re working on talking to the camera. You’re building your grit. You’re callusing your mind.”
I have learning disabilities, and all through school growing up, I had to get double time on tests. Papers took me five times as long. I got strong. I got resilient. I see that as serendipity. I see that as lucky that it’s made me the resilient person I am today.
But in school it was clear where to expend my time and grit. Now I get to choose where to push myself.
Do you keep banging your head against a wall to make a new business opportunity work, or do you pivot? Do you keep fighting a machining job one more day, or do you decide this one just wasn’t meant to be?
The question we all have to ask is: Is this the moment when the universe is telling you, “Yes, use your resilience here,” or, “No, use your grit somewhere else”?
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I use a few questions to test my resolve: Do I still love what I am doing? Do I find value in it, even if no one else does? What could I be doing instead that does a better job of helping me find joy while creating value? Is your goal to create good content or create lasting discourse? Because you could get 300 likes and comments on a Reddit post, but you wouldn’t be a creator. Do you want to create or do you want connection? Because creating CAN be a very lonely process (I say, as I round the corner on one completed novel in a series that will be several books long…)