Why am I selfie-ing with a toilet brush, though?

I recently received an email from a friend sharing her 2023 goals with me.  She shared about wanting to become more financially stable, along with, “I want to be able to provide a nice place for myself, something very similar to yours.”

I took this moment to “come clean” to her, not that it was necessary, but it felt important. 

Yes, I do what I love for a living, and I make it work, indeed. 

But I also sprinkle in some other things to “make it work”

I clean the AirBnB attached to the house we stay in to help pay my rent. 

I spend 20 minutes a day on an app responding to random strangers. 

Yes, I am making it work, but I am also supplementing myself. & this is something I sometimes feel shame around, or fear to admit. 

Am I really walking the walk? 

Am I really doing the whole “living my passion” thing, if I’m also scrubbing the toilet next door a couple times a week?

The answer, is yes, yes I am. 

I scrub toilets & respond to strangers because I care about my dream THAT MUCH. 

Because I believe in my dream, THAT. Much.

Because I know, deep down to my very core, that it will not always be this way. 

That I WILL find a way to make it work, ONLY doing the parts that I love. 

Because that is the decision I have made for this life. 

Because that is what I’ve chosen to believe is possible.

Because I know that, someday, (hopefully soon), 

Cleaning toilets & responding to strangers, will be a story that I get to tell, about how it was all worth it.

& to be honest, it already is.  Toilet brushes and all. ❤️