I’m starting over

Hey it’s Aaron.

Been a while.

Let me update on you what’s been going down.

In case you didn’t know, the month of April was huge for me:

• Landed my first ghostwriting client

• ~400 new followers on Threads

• SEXTUPLED my newsletter subs (29→179!)

If you’re new here and came during that time, I’m grateful.

It was exhilarating watching the numbers go up.

But I'm not here to brag.

I wanted to share with you something else:

It broke me.

I barely wanted to write.

I was more anxious than ever.

I was turning back to food to numb it.

I was sleeping in way past my alarm.

The past month, I feel like I’ve been walking through quicksand.

Here's the thing about success and failure.

Everybody talks about how to accept failure.

Nobody ever teaches you how to welcome success.

In his podcast with Ali Abdaal, Dickie Bush says that periods of leveling up are followed by periods of maintenance.

That's because leveling up breaks all your systems (they show your weaknesses) so you have to go on maintenance mode to fix everything.

All that to say: lall my systems broke. All the things I thought I've been making good progress on, fell apart rapidly.

For myself, it comes down to 5 things:

• Inner Work

• Productivity System

• Ghostwriting

• Fitness

• Content Creation

Some of these are issues I've struggled with all my life.

In a way I’m starting over.

These past 10 months creating content has been a wild ride.

And now it’s time to start making strides in my systems and internal issues that I’ve been putting off for a long time.

But most importantly for you: this is the game of being a polymath and having multiple passions.

You have so many competing interests, you have trouble prioritizing and making sense of it all.

Then you have to figure out how to turn those interests into something that make you money and create a life you love.

From all this, I realized I have a tendency to self-sabotage. That’s good. It’s life’s way of showing me that I can no longer look for band-aid solutions.

If you and I need to are to succeed in this game and life, then we truly need to learn how to do all of these things.

And of course, I’ll be breaking down everything I learn, so, as Alex Hormozi says, you will "Learn the lessons but without the scars."

We’ll be starting back up next Friday.

Stay tuned,

Aaron