Chasing this and that…doesn’t lead to this and that 

Throughout my life, I’ve been taught to chase this and that. 

Study hard to get good grades.. 

Get good grades to get into a good college.. 

Get into a good college to get a good job.. 

Get a good job to get a good paycheck, and so on… 

I’ve been conditioned to do X in order to get Y 

In other words, I’ve always been on a chase. 

There’s nothing wrong with a chase, but if you seek satisfaction and effective-ness like me, 

you’d know (by your own experience) that it is the road to anxiety and ineffectiveness. 

When you do X, you’re constantly looking to see whether you’ve gotten Y. As a result, you’re in a perpetual state of anxiety. 

And because your focus is on Y, you cannot do an extraordinary job at doing X. 

It took me a long time to realize this.. To realise how things truly work… 

The truth is, when a thing is done for its own sake, it has a far greater chance of success.  

Recently, one of my articles got featured in a Malaysian business magazine…out of nowhere!

Funny thing, I only wrote two such articles and my email list only had 11 subscribers… 

I did not write them to be featured. I do remember being lost while writing them.. 

More recently, I was inspired by someone’s email marketing. His startup makes > 6 figures. 

I made a video talking about why his email was great. 

I did that out of inspiration, and he subscribed to my channel of 4 subscribers. Followed me on Twitter/X with 39 followers. 

Why would someone moderately successful subscribe to and follow a nobody? 

Doesn’t make any logical sense, right? 

That’s because things don’t function in the way we believe them to. 

I don’t know where results/outcome comes from. It certainly doesn’t come from ulterior motives… 

In fact, I think having ulterior motives in an activity actually jinxes the outcome.