VLOG #9 - It's been a rough few days... Thoughts on Patience, Achievement, and Having Fun

in life •  7 years ago 

Sometimes it's tough to be working hard all day, living far away from your friends... the last few days I'm really feeling like I just want to GET OUT OF HERE!

But - there are lots of life things to balance: Money is the big one, but also having the steady home w/ the home studio in it, family stuff, you know the deal.

In this vlog, I talk about how I landed in Connecticut after living in Boston, NYC, and North Carolina - and share some thoughts on patience, and how to balance enjoying right now vs. doing the right things for the future.

Question of the day: Do you have any stories from your life of times when you were patient and it paid off, OR, you were too patient and should have acted sooner? I'd love to hear them in the comments.

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In short, I am still unsure if I was too patient or not patient enough when I attempted to move to NYC, but as it were, there was not much payoff. My general thoughts are keeping preserving until your heart's not in it

I could have bought ETH at about $70 but waited, not too long though and I'm still in the black.

You think that's bad, try this one. When ETH was at $10 I went a long rant to five friends about how "You remember hearing about Bitcoin when it was a few bucks? None of us did it, right? Well Ethereum is $10 and it is gonna be the same shit with this token. ITS GONNA MOON."

Yep, I didn't buy any... To be fair I was kinda living paycheck to paycheck back in January, buuut still damn I was SO RIGHT.

I have a whopping 3.6 ETH & we're still living month to month but I figured I had to change something so I figured out a way to git me sum.

We all have stories like that. I purchased 15 ETH at $7 each, then sold a month later because I needed the cash. We all just didn't know. I forgive myself... sorta :)

If I knew then, what I know now...

heyMatt... Subscribe to my youtube channel, and I'll subscribe you back... thanks buddy... Balance is good !!

not begging ... blind squirrel.. youtube is a different creature ..

Oh, sorry about that @primal-buddhist.

The follow 4 follow stuff has been happening so much lately that's more like a reflex.

it's fine buddy... I think youtube kinda sucks.. you have to have 10,000 views before you can monetize.... sometimes a ton of work goes into it. ; steemit is growing; hopefully if they develop a video platform, it will be a good competitor for YT..

It would sure make things a lot simpler to be able to host the videos here.

Yo man, I appreciate you hanging out in my posts lately and stuff. I don't really do follow for follow so gonna pass on Youtube, but I will follow you on Steem since your feed looks pretty good.

No problem.. Thanks...

Christ man, we're the same age but you're just so much more of an adult than I am, haha.

I don't have any stories about patience, paying off for me, I think that requires more foresight than I'm capable of. I'm sure there are times I should have acted sooner but none are really coming to mind right now.

I find myself in a similar situation as you except I think it's mostly fear that's keeping me where I am. For the last year or two I've had dreams of backpacking around Europe, trying to survive off busking and working in hostels, or trying to find a cheap place to live in Holland or Spain. The only problem is that I'm comfortable where I am, and to follow through with any of my ideas requires me to give up that comfort. But I think, even more than comfort, it's the fear of failure that's really keeping me here. That, and a lack of money, haha.

Anyway, I hope you can figure out what you should do and that, whatever you choose, it works out for you.

Sometimes comfort is the enemy of progress. Backpacking around Europe sounds pretty fuckin rad to me.

Yeah, it'll be fantastic if I ever get around to doing it, haha.