3 Key Lessons I’ve learned so Far as an 9-5 Worker becoming a Content Creator
1. The Way You do One Thing, is Usually How you do Others
If you are lazy at your day job, you will be lazy at home too.
The quickest way to solve this is to remember that the way you do one thing, you do another.
Highly effective people do not have to play a part in being excellent in one area of life, and mediocre, they live in excellence in all areas.
Now this does not mean that you have to burn out, but the mindset of how you go about life will reflect in all areas of life not just work.
If you give up at work easily, you will eventually see that pattern in life. If you complain a lot at work, you will see that in your personal life. If you put things off at work, you will see that in your personal life, and so on.
I used to think that I could keep my day job, and life outside of it separately but I burned out from the exhaustion of playing 2 different people that I had to make a change. In all areas of my life, I will force myself to be authentically myself and no one else. When you do that, you can easily work on yourself by knowing who you are at your base form.
2. Your Day Job is a Training Ground for Who You Want to Become.
Right now I am running an Ads Management Side Hustle, working a warehouse 9-5, Maintaining healthy relationships, & While working on my personal brand.
2023 was my most difficult year yet, and it forced me to do quite a lot of Inner work. I’ve had an issue that I just did not want to get up out of bed for days because I dreaded going to my day job in the past but I got out of it.
I failed even harder because when I left that day job, I did not do a single thing to get myself out of it.
So I had to pick up a day job again, and this time I wasn’t going to accept another failure with it.
This time I made the decision that I will not quit until I can make a full-time living online consistently for 3-months straight.
Now I am working hard at my day job, and even harder on my personal life, & the things that I want to work on for a living while Enjoying the whole entire process.
When I did this I found a very valuable lesson. When you create a purpose for your day job, it will be more enjoyable.
This translated to giving purpose for everyday at my day job.
When I do not want to go, I set an intention to train my Discipline, Social Skills, Hard work, Grit, Resourcefulness, Leadership, and working together as a team.
It translated into my personal life, where now as a part-time content creator, I have content to create about on the things that I have learned, and learning. Your day job is a training ground for who you want to become.
3. Work to Impress Yourself, Never the Others Around You
Growing up, I was the middle child and I did not receive much attention, so I would do everything that I could possibly do to impress family, friends, and even strangers.
I stopped doing this earlier this year when I burned out from trying to play 2 different parts at once. It affected my life so much that it affected my personal life at home.
I would give up opportunities if it meant my coworker would benefit instead of myself, I would stay quiet if my coworker said something continually that I did not agree with, and these little habits also translated into my personal life, I would keep quiet when a family conflict would happen, and I had something to say that would benefit others but I was afraid to say it because I did not want to be viewed as bad.
All these little habits caused me to become not who I truly was and this led me to constantly stopping my authentic self from coming out.
I had enough of this when I almost blew out of anger at a coworker for complaining too much about work and making fun of others.
Then I learned, if I continually stop myself from being me, just to impress others I do not admire, then what use is my identity, my personality, my experiences for?
This thought shook me, so I did a full 180 by creating a list of values, traits I have now, and the traits I would like to have in the future, and made a promise that I will live in accordance to my lists and no one else.
Now, I am not afraid to speak my mind, when I have a potentially uncomfortable truth to say I say it despite of how the person will react because not doing the things that are not in accordance to who I am causes me to live a life that isn’t even mine and this is my life, so I will make the most out of it, especially my authentic self despite of how others feel.
Live authentically to Who You Want to Become, and you will live Satisfied, knowing that you live life on your own terms, which is very essential when you are working on things most people find very different from the beaten path of going to college, getting a good job, and retiring at 65.
