HeyJaredRent Free with Ella
This is an ongoing bi-weekly rant, highlighting my journey as an entrepreneur. Debunking the idea that we are all having an amazing ride 100% of the time. Word vomit & an opinion comes easily to me in Substack form.
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Ride the wave (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about The Great Lock In. Four months of choosing ourselves. Doing the half marathon, booking the trip, calling the friend, using the expensive candle instead of apparently waiting for the arrival of a minor royal. The general premise was that perhaps the greatest thing we could build before the end of the year was ourselves.Naturally, I have since been thinking about how to do that correctly.Because God forbid I have a revelation without immediately trying to project man
The Great Lock In (opens the original)
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There are four months left of the year, which means we have officially entered that strange period where everyone starts doing the maths. How much did I achieve? How much money did I make? Did I lose the weight? Did I get the job? Did I leave the job? Did I find love? Did I become the person I said I was going to become in January, or have I spent another eight months moving the same three things from one Notes app list to another?September has a funny way of making us behave as though the year
That’s Beautiful, But It Isn’t Mine (opens the original)
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There is a difference between admiring something and assigning your life to it.I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently because I don’t actually believe every dream we have is supposed to become our reality. Some are just passing through. Some are there to show us what’s possible. Some are there to make us ask better questions about ourselves.And some... are only meant to be observed.We have this habit of entertaining everything that catches our attention. A career. A relationship. A city. A
Desperation Is Not the Humiliation Ritual We Think It Is (opens the original)
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Can I tell you something?I think we’ve completely misunderstood desperation. We’ve turned it into this dirty little word. Something to hide. Something that makes us look weak, unsuccessful or, God forbid, as though we actually care.As though trying is embarrassing. As though wanting something badly is somehow beneath us. Who came up with that?Because from where I’m standing, everyone is desperate. The founder trying to keep the lights on. The graduate refreshing their inbox for the fifteenth tim
Don't Look Back in Anger (opens the original)
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Halfway through the year.Six months down. Six months to go.It feels impossible to summarise everything that has happened in such a short space of time. There have been conversations I wish had gone differently. Opportunities that slipped through my fingers. Plans that never made it past the notes app. Clients who left. People who surprised me. Moments where I questioned everything I thought I knew about myself, my career and the direction I was heading in.If I’m honest, there have been enough mi
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