When I enrolled in the “classes prépas” a few years ago, I had no idea what was awaiting me. It is a cram school that prepares students for the engineering schools in France.
They provide a two-year intensive program with thirty hours of courses every week. Additionally, evaluations and projects are completed every week.
What “classes prépas” and freelancing have in common?
To summarize the student experience in a few words: we were always overwhelmed and trying to catch up. The stress and the pressure were omnipresent.
But the worst was the guilt. Any time we weren’t working, we felt guilty because we always had something to do. This was especially prevalent during weekends. Even when we worked hard, our teachers were always there to remind us that we should work more and that we were lazy.
Does this sound familiar to you? So much work that you feel you can’t catch up and extreme guilt when you’re not working?
Most of the time it leads to burn out.
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If you’re like me, you probably have tons of interests but not enough time to pursue everything you’d like to do. Maybe you have a side project sitting somewhere in your mind but you either don’t have the time or are too tired to work on it at the end of the day. For me, it was to learn English. Then it was to learn new skills related to statistics, my field of study. Then I wanted to start a blog, and read more books, and… well, you got it.
I’ve recently realized I’ve succeeded to do all of these things in the past few months and now, I would like to share with you the three important steps I took to free up time to be able to work on these side projects. tc2000 brokerage review
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One year ago, I was an amateur poker player. I was dreaming of earning as much money as the poker professionals, having a free and rich life by playing cards. Then, everything would be fine. With all that money, I would be happy and do a lot of cool things!
Well, guess what? Nothing happened! I’m not a professional poker player and actually quit poker a few months later. Why do you think this happened?
I wanted to be rich and famous without any
specific purpose.
I was heading the wrong direction because I hadn’t even thought why I would play poker. Sure, I liked the game, but my goal was far more than having fun.
It’s only later that I learned to focus on what’s really important: the purpose of my actions. Why am I doing what I am doing? Did I have a good reason to become a professional poker player? I quickly realized that this lifestyle wasn’t for me, even if I had invested thousands of dollars and hours in poker courses. I would never be more than a slightly winning player. Quitting was actually one of the hardest decisions of my life; it required to admit that I’d been wrong for months! But it was also one of the best.
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