Stephen Scoggins argues you need a passion project alongside your day job. Spend an hour or two regularly on something that brings you joy, and let that fire spill over into everything else you do.
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Building a dream on the side. You still got to put an hour or two. Yeah. Throw a log on the fire. Otherwise it becomes fire, regardless of how tired you are. Right. So it's still a minding process. It is, you know, passion oriented, fire oriented, maybe in contrast to a low meaning, you know, day job or something like that. You got to find a way to isolate some. Some time, even if it's nominal, and mind those fires to keep that going. And for me, I found, and I think others have found, that when you do that, you know, it then shades every other area of your life because you get so much joy out of even just a small amount of mining those fires or those things you're passionate about potentially outside of your day job. Your day job becomes more meaningful, more enjoyable. It becomes what I call your enabler pursuit that either finances or feeds into or maybe there's a transference from one to the other. And to me, I just think it's a very important thing to find something in your life that lights you up and mind that damn fire sa.