Why you shouldn’t try so hard to make money

Courtney River
New Writers Welcome
3 min readNov 23, 2021

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Life is short — why work yourself to death

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Some things just come naturally to some people.

Napping on planes, being quiet in libraries, and baking bread from scratch are a few things that do not come naturally to me. I have to try really, really hard at them. So I tend to just abort the mission altogether.

Why struggle at something that has a low success rate for me? While there are things in life worth struggling through — learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language, raising your kids; some things aren’t worth the headache.

Why force a square peg into a round hole?

There is an easier way.

Take the path of least resistance and simply do the things that come easy to you. This can be applied to how you choose to make money.

In 2021, nearly everything is monetizable. Your passion can be your ‘side hustle’ until it just becomes your full-time job. But it doesn’t even need to be something you’re passionate about — just something that isn’t difficult for you.

Something that comes easy to you.

If you are good with numbers and have little money to risk, Wezi Simkoko shares their experience and success with investments.

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Courtney River
New Writers Welcome

Over-educated and under-qualified. Figuring out things as I go.