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How I deal with comments and criticism from those who want to crush my joy?
Apparently, I write about it.
It has been a little over a year since I have been doing this writing ¨gig¨ full-time, along with my YouTube channel, which is not full-time, yet something I enjoy doing.
What a concept, right?
So I continue doing it because I like to do things I enjoy. It seems the concept of joy and doing things because they make you happy are foreign concepts to people.
I write because I enjoy writing and connecting with others. I earn money, not a lot, but I have simple needs and find ways to make it work. However earning money is not my driving force any longer, in the past, it dictated my entire life. No more.
In the past, I worked in a busy ICU. As well as at some of the biggest busiest hospitals in LA and Boston. While there, I always thought ¨there has to be more to life.¨
My inner dialogue daily was with myself. When you are dealing with sick people who are dying it makes you wonder why people do things they do not enjoy.
So many of my patients accepted defeat, without even trying, I knew that if I stayed in my past life, that would be me. The angry old lady who hated life, because she was afraid to live, and…
