No More Waiting For Vacations: Creating A Life You Don’t Need To Escape From
Gm, friends.
Every year, I promise myself that this will be the summer everything changes.
This time, it’s not just a hope—it’s a reality, fueled by freedom and self-made motivation.
Here’s what happens when you stop chasing escapes and start building the life you really want.
Before we start, let’s have a word from our partner Soul Protocol:
Soul Protocol is a groundbreaking protocol in the DeFi lending space, acting as a meta-layer that aggregates borrowing power across multiple blockchains and lending protocols. Unlike traditional platforms where assets are siloed and users must bridge, swap, and pay high fees to move funds between chains, Soul allows users to deposit collateral on one chain and borrow on another seamlessly, all while keeping assets native and avoiding wrapped tokens.
This unified approach enables users to optimize yields, maximize borrowing capacity, and deploy capital efficiently across ecosystems like Aave, Compound, and Morpho from a single interface. Soul’s integration with cross-chain protocols like LayerZero and Axelar ensures secure, native cross-chain activity without synthetic assets.
The protocol’s $SO token is designed with genuine utility: it features revenue sharing, boosted yields for stakers, and gauge-based emissions that let holders direct rewards to specific pools. Soul’s tokenomics prioritize community ownership, with a large portion allocated to public sale and mechanisms to ensure fair participation.
In fact, they actually raised $6m in their community sale that ended last week.
Overall, Soul Protocol aims to abstract away DeFi complexity, making it accessible and profitable for users while amplifying liquidity and utility for existing protocols. With its innovative technology, strong incentives, and user-centric design, Soul positions itself as a transformative force in the decentralized lending ecosystem.
Also, they have a Kaito campaign right now where they’ve set aside $5,000 in weekly rewards for the top 25 yappers on the Soul Leaderboard, ranked by their impact and mindshare on Kaito over a 7-day rolling window.
More info here: https://x.com/0xSoulProtocol/status/1925216997362528663
No More Waiting For Vacations: Creating A Life You Don’t Need To Escape From
Every summer, I think to myself that this will be the best summer ever. Well, this time it will. Feeling so much more relaxed knowing money is taken care of.
No pressure to grind 24/7 to make it. Can do it because I want to, not because I have to. Sure, there are always levels to this game, and you can always make more.
It's super cool to be in such a competitive industry like this, talking to hungry degens in the group chats that has motivation like I've seen nowhere in my earlier 9-5 jobs. Being on your own forces you to think bigger.
You understand that no one is coming to save you. If you want to make money, it's on you. No one can do the work for you. Grateful to everyone that have helped me in here throughout the years.
Some more thoughts about motivation: When you're in a normal job, all you want to do is to get home, relax, and meet friends. You dream about beach vacations, and all the stuff you can't do. Simply because you are trapped in a cubicle from 9-5 every weekday, typically 48 out of 52 weeks every single year.
If you're being honest with yourself, this is not your dream job, because if it were, you wouldn't dream of binge-watching Netflix on your comfy sofa instead. The thing is, when you're on your own, you stop dreaming about these holidays, because you know that you can go whenever you want, and this automatically leads to that you have no need for it anymore.
The beach holiday was simply a metaphor for an escape. But now you don't need to escape. You are free. Also, at least for me, I seldom feel the need to watch Netflix, because I would rather spend my time on something work-related, it could be screening for new trades, writing on the newsletter, reading stuff other people have written, or testing a new DeFi strategy.
The passion is so intense, and this is what I want to do. Watching a TV show steals time from work, which I think is even more fun. When I try to explain this to friends, they always think I am a sick weirdo.
Well, this is something I wish everyone to experience in their life. A real dedication to something. And it could be anything. So if you have a dream, just follow it. If you fail, you can, 99% of the time, go back to the life you had.
But if you never try, you’ll always wonder what could have been. That “what if” is so much heavier than any risk you’ll ever take. I used to be paralyzed by the fear of failing—of losing money, of looking stupid, of wasting time. But honestly, the only real waste is not giving yourself the chance to find out what you’re capable of.
I’m not saying it’s all sunshine and easy wins. There are days when nothing works, when the market goes against you, or when you just feel stuck. But even on those days, I’d rather be frustrated building my own thing than comfortably numb in a job I don’t care about. The lows are real, but so are the highs—and those highs are yours alone. You earned them.
One of the best parts? The people you meet along the way. There’s a different energy in communities where everyone is chasing something bigger. You see people pushing boundaries, sharing ideas, and actually rooting for each other. It’s infectious. It makes you want to level up, not because you have to, but because you’re inspired to.
And the growth isn’t just financial. You learn to trust yourself, to handle uncertainty, to adapt. You realize that setbacks aren’t dead ends—they’re just part of the process. That’s something no traditional job ever taught me.
So yeah, this summer is going to be the best one yet. Not because I’ll be lying on a beach somewhere, but because I’m finally living on my own terms. That’s the real freedom. And if you’re reading this, maybe it’s your turn next. Don’t wait for the “perfect” moment. Just start. The future you will thank you.
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That’s it for today.
See you next week!
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Thank you!
That was inspiring and beautifully written.
What would you say was the biggest challenge on your journey to freedom?
Was it maintaining consistency?
And if you had a 9-to-5 job, when did you decide it was time to leave it?