Being busy feels productive. But busyness is a treadmill—momentum is forward motion.

What you work on is as important as how you work on it.

Busyness doesn’t create momentum. Consistent focus on scoped goals does.

my own struggle with busyness

I am guilty of this pattern—keeping busy but seeing fewer results than I’d like. I do too much. I do too many different things.

It’s not easy to stay the course. Sometimes, it’s even harder to decide what you want—because you know the tradeoffs.

I want financial freedom, and I want it soon. But am I willing to climb the corporate ladder—or gamble on entrepreneurship? Both pull time away from music, and that’s been my dealbreaker.

And yet, even as flexible work lets me pursue music seriously, it still fragments my focus. Music alone is a full-time job—writing, promoting, managing, creating. Balancing both paths has left me feeling perpetually scattered.

Juggling both feels like sprinting on two treadmills at once—tolerable in the short term, draining in the long run.

when everything is important, nothing moves

The combinatory path scratches some itches, but it’s an unsatisfying compromise.

Corporate work? Predictable, but soul-deadening.
Music full-time? Fulfilling, but financially precarious.

So what can be done?

I don’t know. I’m honestly asking myself this question. I might just drop everything for a bit—take a step back and see what clarity emerges.

But here’s what I do know: trying to maintain two careers is unsustainable. Even when balance works, it creates constant context switching, and context switching kills momentum.

the invitation

Protect yourself from busyness.

Do fewer things—but do them fully.

Focus like a magnifying glass—because scattered light doesn’t start fires.

You may find yourself building momentum faster than you expected.