If you‘re not sure about your life path, read this…

Alex Mathers
4 min readOct 5, 2024

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I’ve worked for myself for the last fourteen years since my early twenties.

I’m self-taught in all that I do and have worked with clients from Google to Mars, to Wired Magazine.

My work has allowed me to work from any cafe, in many countries, all over the world.

As a writer, illustrator, and coach, the work has afforded me a freedom I’d never change.

But I’ve also often struggled financially, I’ve frequently wanted to give up and quit, and I have doubted myself every single day.

I’ve come to accept doubt as a normal part of what I do.

These truths keep me going when I find myself doubting:

Doubt means I care.

What is doubt but a surge of energy rippling through my chest?

Energy can be read in many ways. One such way is that the energy I feel reflects my caring; my passion, my need for getting it right.

I want to succeed. With this want, there will always be fear running in parallel.

I have come to delight in this wave of fear.

It is a sign I am doing what’s right.

It’s a sign I am alive.

Doubt isn’t real.

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Alex Mathers

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