🥴 Bob the Neck Throb, Part Three
Catch up on Part One and Part Two here first:
“I started to notice that the degree to which I ever felt unhappiness, discomfort, or despair was in direct proportion to how far I let myself stray from the seat of my soul.”
—Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul
I must have veered off track somewhere, if not at multiple turns. Otherwise Bob the Neck Throb wouldn’t be here, pounding on my head and shoulders, making it hard to read, hard to think, hard to sleep, hard to work.
My decade-long obsession with building a scalable business model—to prevent exactly this kind of strain—had fallen short in recent years. My soul intervened (cue eye roll if you must), yanking me back to a creative path, rather than ones that might have been more lucrative but less aligned, like outbound B2B licensing sales or growth hacking for marketing online courses.
Financial stress can be brutal, fomenting a vicious cycle:1
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