It is better to close a few extra doors - I mean options - in life, and in time: Claims the finding of a scientific investigation. A write up, detailing out the observation, was forwarded to me by a friend today morning, reminding me about my own experience in that regard.
It happened when Lehman Brothers collapsed on 15th Sept 2008, triggering off a global recession. Although India wasn't affected to that extent; however, a subsequent knee-jerk reaction by Indian Industry brought my business to a grinding halt which had been experiencing an exponential growth for several years up until then.
Being heavily dependent on a few highly rewarding clients, my cash flow almost dried up when they enforced a complete ban on external hiring.
Coinciding with the same, I begun my journey as a blogger and, over a period of time, got so much obsessed with it that instead of bringing my business back on track I focused more on Blogging.
I continued knocking at the wrong door with a never fulfilled hope of making money from what I discovered as my true passion. And in that process, I ignored the other doors which had been consistently rewarding me for several years.
Despite an ever shrinking business since then, and blogging proving to be a financial disaster with no return on time invested, I, failing to assess the gravity of the situation, went on blogging for almost 16 hours a day.
Sleeping for less than 4 hours a day, obviously I fell sick. With a deteriorating health, devastated business and passion for blogging that was providing no monetary benefit, messing up of life was complete.
Thank God, I could realize my mistake before it was too late, and practically realigned my career priorities since then; however, this article, published on 'The New York Times,' is a great reminder to own experience of the consequence of -- knocking at the wrong door for a long time.
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