However, it does have some major issues and would need a lot of re-working. This is the book that already is sitting on my laptop and which has come relatively far in it’s development. Intercultural Mindset: How to Adapt to Any Culture Quickly:.Now, I will simply have to choose which book project that will be. What I really want to achieve is to finish writing a book in my field of expertise, publish it and achieve a reasonably good amount of readers with it (5000 and above). Quite frankly, it is clear to me that my project should be a book. I should be willing to invest the large majority of my time and energy into this project.If everything else I do this year fails, but I only get this single project done, it should still be a successful year to me.Once it is shipped, it will be among the top 5 most important things that happened in my life so far.To me, this project should have the following characteristics: Something tangible that will make a real difference in my life. Let’s make a commitment together.įor 2018, I want to choose one single project that I will deliver no matter what happens. They believe that if you follow the “normal way” of life, the chances that you succeed will be much higher. They are simply scared that you will fail. It is exactly because they love you that they reject the choices you make. But I guess the reality is that this won’t help much, either.Īs long as your life choices are unconventional, the people who love you the most are always going to reject them. In my imagination, this would be enough to quiet the voices of the people close to me who criticize the way I choose to live my life. Now, I will simply focus on repeating this process until I can live from the income it generates”. Something that I can slam on the table and say: Sometimes, I just want to to be able to produce one single thing which everybody would agree to be a real, tangible achievement. If you have a partner, for example, you are not only financially responsible for yourself. Plus, there are some realities of life that we can not just ignore. It should depend on what you yourself want.īut then again, to listen to the constant criticism about what you are doing certainly has an impact on you. I know, your choice shouldn’t depend on the opinions of others. Your friends don’t care about what all of these people say.
Your parents don’t care about what all of these people say. One problem with that is a simple one: your wife doesn’t care about what all of these people say. Whether it is Gary Vaynerchuk, Jeff Goins or James Altucher, pretty much all the people who have achieved reasonable degrees of success speak about the importance of patience in achieving your goals. Something that has a real impact on my life.Įverybody talks about the importance of patience Or the fact that I have relatively deep knowledge about the field of intercultural communication, and the Indonesian- as well as the Iranian culture in particular.Īll of these are really important skills I have, but I simply haven’t been able to translate them into tangible, specific outcomes.Īfter all these years, I need something that I can touch. Things like the fact that I have managed to live in three foreign countries (Indonesia, Australia and Iran) or that I learned to speak Persian reasonably well. Other things that come to my mind are simply too abstract. There are some blog posts that I am proud of. My life is lacking something that I can present to other people and say: “here, I did this” or “here, I made this!”.
I have always loved taking on new opportunities.īut none of these things feel like a real achievement to me. I have always been driven by achievement. Although these days I do get responses from readers quite regularly, the number of subscribers is hardly growing at all. I have been blogging for years now, but I have never really achieved any tangible results with it. I have taken on several jobs during my lifetime - as a journalist, as a marketing manager, as a German teacher for a language-learning app - but none of them have been things that I want to keep doing on the long term. Not so much because it wasn’t a good idea or because it was obvious that it wouldn’t lead anywhere, but more because it didn’t turn out to be the right time to focus on building it. I have been working on building a start-up for months, but it has been a failure. It’s just sitting there on my laptop, waiting for something to happen. Neither can I touch it, nor does it have any benefits for me. I have written a book for the most part, but it hasn’t been published. When You Have No Tangible Achievements In Life…ĭo you feel as if you have done a lot in life, but none of it has produced any tangible outcomes?