I just got the following quote as a (spam) comment on one of the posts in this site:
“Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.” – Claude Pepper
And it made me think, as most of my life I’ve been pedaling very hard and I have the feeling it didn’t bring me anywhere. Yes, in a way it brought me quite some money, but the end result was not what I wanted or expected.
So end of last year I kind of stopped pedaling and recently I’m pedaling slowly. And I’m trying to make sense of it all as ‘just pedaling’ is not enough. As I’ve been pedaling very hard with my business, but it didn’t pay off until now. I just feel like I fell very hard and I’m not sure how to stand up, how to make sure I don’t fall that hard.
And the main issue right now is I fell so hard and am so wounded that I’m not fully sure how to move on. I feel like I need help, but don’t know where to go. And somehow I still want it to work, want it to move, want it to be alive. And while writing I realized the bike is still there as I still have some infrastructure, even though that’s also a bit wounded and a main asset in the form of the Active Discovery Application Framework which I think is a very powerful web development framework.
So yes, while writing this I see I still learned a lot and it seems I still know what I want and it seems there are still assets there, so yes, getting some quote and doing something with it like writing does help, does give perspective.
So you might also want to write about what’s bothering you, what you’re thinking about.