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8 Spiritual Lessons That Helped Me Reinvent Myself After 37 and Make My Writing Profitable by 40
#7. Don’t Blame Others — even If They’re to Blame.
We’re living in the most hyper-competitive era in human history — plain and simple.
Kick a rock, and you’ll find thousands of people chasing the same dream as you.
Kick another, and you’ll see hundreds who became millionaires by 20, bragging about retiring at 30.
And there you are (or me), at 43, 53, 63, or like many of my readers over 70, scraping by because pensions don’t cover daily expenses, just trying to keep going.
You’re so overwhelmed by the success others flaunt on social media that it feels somewhere between lazy and embarrassing to even try.
It’s only natural to want to throw in the towel. How do you compete with digital-native twenty-somethings boasting millions of followers?
But sometimes, there’s no other choice. The way the world works, you either hustle or you don’t pay the bills.
I had to reinvent myself after 37 and didn’t make writing profitable until 40.
It wasn’t (and still isn’t) an easy road.
