Alright, let’s talk about this whole 100,000 and 1,500 situation. It sounds kinda random, right? Well, it was a real thing for me, a target I set myself a while back.
I got this idea, you see. I wanted to build up a massive collection of something. Doesn’t really matter what, let’s just say digital bits of stuff. My big goal, the number I plastered everywhere, was 100,000. Yeah, ambitious, I know. Seemed achievable if I just put in the work.
So, I started grinding. Every day, sometimes hours on end. Just collecting, organizing, adding to the pile. Felt productive, you know? Like I was building something huge. I tracked my progress, made charts, the whole nine yards. Thought I was totally crushing it.
The Reality Check
Then came the slap in the face. After weeks, maybe months, I decided to do a proper count, a real quality check. And guess what? Out of that mountain of stuff I thought I had, the actual useful, good quality bits? It barely hit 1,500. Seriously. One thousand five hundred.
It was like… all that effort, all that time, just evaporated. Most of the stuff I’d gathered was junk, duplicates, or just plain useless. The gap between 100,000 and 1,500 just stared back at me. Felt like a total idiot.
That whole experience kinda changed things for me. Made me realize a few things:
- Focusing on huge numbers is dumb if the quality isn’t there.
- I was chasing a vanity metric, something that looked good but meant nothing.
- All that time I spent grinding could have gone into something… real?
Honestly, it was a wake-up call. I scrapped the whole 100,000 project. Just deleted most of it. Started focusing on smaller things, things I could actually do well, even if the numbers weren’t flashy. It felt way better, less pressure, you know? So yeah, 100,000 versus 1,500. A dumb goal and a hard lesson learned.