Week 1 of writing everyday - my reflections
It's been one week since I started this 30-day writing challenge, and I wanted to pause and reflect on what's coming up for me.
When I began this, I wasn't entirely sure what I was going to write about, I just knew I wanted to explore this concept I've been thinking about: "building your business around your life, not the other way around." And honestly, writing every day has helped me clarify what that actually means.
What I've written so far
Over the past week, I've explored:
My entrepreneurship journey - how I got here and why I'm on this path to work-life integration
Why founders need a learning habit - the INPUT → THROUGHPUT → OUTPUT framework
Seasonal business design - the idea of masculine and feminine seasons in business
Multiple revenue streams - how to structure income that matches different energy levels
Health protocols - the non-negotiable habits that keep me from burning out
The thread connecting all of these: your business can only grow as fast as you do.
The patterns I'm noticing
You have to keep learning and evolving. The learning habit article reminded me that founders don't have a boss or training programs telling us what to learn next. We have to be our own teachers. Your business is a reflection of what you know. If you're not growing, your business isn't growing either.
Everything comes back to energy management. Whether we’re talking about revenue streams, health protocols, or seasonal business design - it's all about managing energy, not just managing time. We're not in hustle season all the time. If you're "on" 365 days a year, burnout is inevitable.
You can't build freedom without systems. Multiple revenue streams only give you freedom if they're structured to match your energy. High-energy work for grind season, low-energy work for flow season. Otherwise, you're just juggling more things and still trapped.
Rest isn't optional. I used to think rest was something you earned after you succeeded. Now I know rest is what makes success sustainable in the first place. My health protocols aren't a luxury - they're the foundation everything else is built on.
What's really emerging
What I'm realizing now, through this writing process, is that the core question I'm trying to answer is about sustainability:
How can I sustainably write every day?
How can I manage my business so I can sustain it - all the expenses, stress, that comes with it?
How can I manage my energy to be sustainable throughout the day, throughout the week, throughout the year?
I don't have all the answers. I'm still in the middle of this transition myself - still building the infrastructure, still learning to honour my flow seasons without guilt, still experimenting with what works.
But that's kind of the point of this challenge. Not to have everything figured out before I share, but to think out loud and invite others into the process.
What's next
Over the next few weeks, I want to explore more topics around sustainability and energy, but also business strategy, marketing, and sales - while of course still sharing my journey along the way.
I want to get more tactical and more specific about the frameworks and strategies I actually use.
If there's something specific you'd like me to write about, please let me know by commenting below. This challenge is as much about figuring out what resonates with you as it is about clarifying my own thinking.
So here's to week 1. And to the next three weeks of figuring this out together.
What's resonating with you so far? What questions are you sitting with?
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Hi, I’m Mikee Federizo, entrepreneur and consultant making content around business, balance and self-development.
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