🫠 A Quarter-Life Crisis

This week’s newsletter has been particularly difficult to write because I am uncertain about some things. Hopefully, writing to all of you may help me clear my thoughts.

I completed The Odyssey Plan earlier this week, which I first learnt about from Ali.

It’s designed to help you answer the question ‘what should I do in life’, and it’s proved to be somewhat helpful in getting all my thoughts down on paper and thinking quite clearly. It involves answering the following three questions:

1. Write out, in detail, what your life would look like 5 years from now if you continue down your current path.

2. Write out, in detail, what your life would look like 5 years from now if you took a completely different path.

3. Write out, in detail, what your life would look like 5 years from now if money and social obligations were irrelevant.

I also want to take a moment to insert the following:

As you can see, I have big question marks for ‘what am I trying to do?’

This is because I can’t decide what road to go down. In 5 years, ideally, I want to be doing medicine and ‘part-time’ content creation, but I don’t know what that will look like. Writing things out for the Odyssey plan was helpful…

I realised that I like medicine, but having the freedom and ability to do something on the side has made it even more enjoyable. Before I started my newsletter, medicine would feel tedious at times and boring.

I am still struggling with the business aspect of things. I think I will probably end up working with a virtual assistant or someone to help me by the end of the summer. I want to spend less time doing admin and answering emails if I can help it. Also, when do I say I can take on no more clients? This is just one of the many questions I have in my head.

Regarding content creation, I want to create something more substantive than just a weekly newsletter. I am unsure if I want to create a podcast - if yes, what about? Or I want to try out YouTube - if yes, what videos will I make?
The thinking here is that I want the newsletter to be well-complimented by whichever form of media I add. I also want to return to daily LinkedIn posting as soon as possible because that’s where I started my journey.

So that’s the key takings from My Odyssey plan in a nutshell. I have much more going on in my head, which I still need to jot down. Hopefully, when I write to you all next week, I will have a clearer picture, and some of the squares will be fully coloured in.

I hope clarity will come with time and as things get ticked off the to-do list…

I would be keen to hear your thoughts on all of this. Please reach out if you have any advice or ideas about what I should/could pursue, especially on the business and content creation front.