4 Ways I Channeled My Inner Scrooge (and it has NOTHING to do with money)

It’s that magical time of year...

It’s that magical time of year for most of us, but for many of us, it’s that time of year to reflect on where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going.

And if you’ve hung out with us for any length of time, you already know that I don’t really even need an invitation to be reflective; however, an opportunity presented itself for an awesome guest post and guess what the topic is? You got it—Tell about a time when change found you. This topic begs for recounting what has brought us to where we are today.

It is my goal today to share the 4 ways I channeled my inner Scrooge.

Read the post: https://ye-chen.com/why-do-we-do-all-the-things/

1. This journey requires emotional scutwork

First of all, to receive a wake-up call of sorts that asked me to evaluate how we’re living our life is already fundamentally Scroogian—is that a word?—but that was that is what I had to do, right? Actually, doing more than blindly doing what you’ve always done will most likely require asking yourself some difficult and often painful questions. To be honest, you really cannot move on and thrive if you don’t figure out what wrong turn you may have taken on your way to where you are. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like admitting that something’s amiss and that I had some hand in putting myself in this depressing situation. (If you read the post, you will realize that we once had a bigger vision for our creative life than what we wer