The Noise Around Us

Since I started the blog, I’ve been having mixed thoughts about its future.

Do I want to turn it into a source of income?

Do I want to become a coach?

Do I want to focus solely on career-related topics?

And all those questions don’t come from within—but from the world around me:

• Planning my strategy with ChatGPT, I get suggestions about creating some kind of coaching handbook.
• Searching YouTube to learn, all I find are videos on how to make your blog worth $100,000 in under X months.
• Sharing my ideas with friends quickly turns into conversations about how I can “succeed” by becoming a money-making machine.

We live in a world obsessed with how quickly we can monetize what we do. But here’s the thing: once I start thinking about monetizing, I begin to see this as a business. And when I see it as a business, I’m no longer doing what feels right—I’m doing what performs best. And when that happens, I lose the whole point.

I just started. And since day one, my goal has been to share stories for people going through the same phase of life I am—to remind them they’re not alone. I want my blog to push them to keep going, the same way I’m pushing myself. I want it to help them avoid the mistakes I made. I want them to read it however they need to, in a way that connects to their own reality.

Whether my blog helps one person or a million, that doesn’t matter—as long as it helps someone. If that means not monetizing it or not reaching the widest audience, so be it. A follower telling me “this hit hard” is what keeps me going. And I know it always will.

So, this is a reminder: when we set a goal, there will always be countless distractions pulling us off track. And if our vision isn’t clear, we may end up somewhere we never intended to be.

We also live in a world where money is sold to us as the ultimate destination. But is it really? Or is it just one way to get to where we’re meant to go?