Steve D Valentine asks if your work still brings you joy. He realized his unhappiness came less from the job itself and more from toxic relationships and his own mindset, so he cut people out and rebuilt his life around what actually made him happy.
Chapters
I don't care what walk of life you're in. If you're in a job or a situation, ask the question, is this still bringing me joy? And if it's not, the question is, why? Is it the job? Is it the environment? Is it the community you're involved in? Is it you? Is it you that's not bringing you joy? And so when I finally got to the bottom of all that last year, it was a lot of me not bringing joy. It was a lot of people that I had surrounded myself that I was like, you know, this is not making me happy anymore. Including a really good friend that was around during this time that was really hard. And I still go back, and I'm like, man, I wish that he would have stuck around and actually done for me what I had done for him 20 years ago. And that was heartbreaking, right? And you're like, you know what? This is just a person in my life that I can't have in there anymore. And so we started going through that and just setting different strategies for the way we were going to deal with things. And what happened was it just started to become very, very clear.
