Hey,
I hate going back to sleep after the first prayer of the day.
Usually, I do not. But this morning I was so tired.
I had a task waiting from yesterday.
I had added some features to Game Mode, and they made everything unbearably slow.
My job was to optimise it. Find a way to make it faster.
Which meant testing. Thinking. Trying ten different approaches just to find one that works.
My mind did not want to do it.
So I procrastinated. Told myself I would just watch one YouTube video first.
Mat Armstrong is rebuilding a G Wagon that refused to start.
And I watched.
Mat tried everything.
Checked the brake connections. Fixed them. Car would not start.
Checked the battery. Car would not start.
Changed the entire engine and gearbox. Car would not start.
By 7 am, I felt exhausted just watching. So I closed my eyes and tried to sleep.
Two minutes passed.
My mind would not stop.
It kept circling back to Game Mode. Turning the problem over. And then, lying there in the dark, a solution appeared.
But before I got up, I wanted to see how Matt's story ended.
He tried again. And again. His team was ready to quit, to start fresh tomorrow.
But Matt gave it one more attempt.
One connection. Loose. He secured it.
The engine roared to life.
I felt a surge of energy I cannot explain. I switched to Notion, applied the solution I had found, and within minutes,
the template was ten times faster.
The Point
When you love what you are doing, you cannot sleep.
Even if you try, your mind refuses to rest. It keeps working in the background, turning the problem over until it cracks.
Last month, I was working with a client on a custom Second Brain build.
She described what she needed, and it felt impossible to build in Notion.
For days, I could not stop thinking about it.
Walking. Praying. Reading. Watching random videos. My mind was elsewhere, searching for the answer.
Until it hit.
I did not work on anything else until I found the solution.
Even when it pushed my mind to its limit. Even when it stressed me.
But here is the thing.
That stress was beautiful.
Because it came from something I love.
When you work on something you care about, there is no ceiling to your creativity.
Only external limits you cannot control.
When you work on something you do not care about, even quick tasks drain you.
One More Thing
I was ready to launch Game Mode officially a few days ago.
But something inside me said: This can be the greatest gamified template in the world. Not just good.
The greatest.
So I kept going. Deleted features I had spent hours building because they were not good enough.
Pushed Notion to its limits until I hit walls that even Notion themselves can't fix.
The version coming out is worth the wait.
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Thanks for reading.
Osama (OLS)
P.S. — Do what you love. Or at least, learn to love what you do. The difference between burnout and fulfilment is not the hours. It is the feeling behind them.
