Doing it all won’t make you successful

In the past few years, we have become more and more absorbed by productivity culture, or hustling culture. We think we can do it all, working a job that keeps our bills paid, while having one to three side hustles, cultivating our hobbies, and keeping relationships alive.

Well, here’s the harsh truth about it: you were lied, and brutally.

You don’t have to do it all, just because you can’t.

I used to think I had to have many projects to work on while juggling university, freelancing, friends and family. The result? I fell out of love with things that used to excite me, just because everything was too much.

We are a society of overworked, burnt out and overwhelmed people, trying to create something ours while dealing with a world that is not kind to us, between wars, economy crashes and inflation.

Our society has told us, for a very long time, that working more means working hard, when in reality it leads just to constant burn out.

And what do we do, then? We look for some quick stress relief, something that will bring us away from the chaos of our life for a few minutes.

Social medias, tv, sex, drinking, drugs, everything is used as a form of distraction, as a way of gaining a glimpse of pleasure and peace in the midst of the many things on your to do list.

Doing it all is not healthy.

Doing it all doesn’t make you better than others.

Overworking yourself doesn’t make you more worth of success.

You can choose what is most important to you and do just that.

It can be one thing.

It can be seven.

You can decide, you have the freedom to say “that’s enough” and do less.

Because no one will give you an award for working too much and neglecting your happiness.