A Birthday For This Blog: 6 Years Of Insanity

Today is my birthday.

And hence, it is also this blog’s birthday.

The birth of Alden-Tan.com and my writing journey started something insane for me.

Warning: There’re no big numbers for you in this story. There is no extreme rag-to-riches milestones. And neither is there a product for you to buy at the end.

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Started out as a fake writer

All I honestly cared about was being my own boss at home and making money.

That was the dream, or so I called it that.

I “hustled” hard, screamed “no excuses!” at myself, imbued “passion” and told the world that I “love helping others.”

I have never not killed my soul so badly before as I chased money so hard.

A very tough lesson here is that you should start with the intention of being true to yourself and never compromise your beliefs and goals are. All I cared about was making money. As a result, the way I functioned was telling myself, “If it makes me money, I’ll definitely love doing it” in everything I did.

Money is important in life. It’s a factual element in society. But it’s merely a means to an end. And that end cannot be reached if you aren’t even…