Radical transparency.
I haven't been at my best, and it has shown over the last two months.
I started getting burnt out and overwhelmed starting a few months ago. I didnt realize it until recently and have started to make the changes I need to recenter.
It started a few months ago in advance of the 1 year anniversary of my mothers passing. I didnt realize just how much it impacted me or my thinking or my emotional standing. I was truly creating chaos around me in order to avoid the pain and sadness that I was trying to bury. I have struggled in silence with the pain of that loss, and have even hid the way it made me feel from myself. I spiraled a bit emotionally and it impacted everything around me.
I have worked unhealthy amounts over the last three years during the derugging of Frogs, in many ways my work has been an emotional outlet for me and a way to build and channel my energy into something positive and exciting. I have had many highs and lows throughout that time, but it has also been an unhealthy crutch for me at times coming first before taking care of myself. I have realized that in creating that crutch, it hasent benefitted the frogs.
I have had a few personal revelations over the last two weeks, and the main one as it applies is that in order for the frogs to be the best that it can be, I need to be the best I can be as well.
We go through highs and lows. We have so much to celebrate as a collection and company, but the attention economy and emotional basis of the industry can be challenging to navigate as a project that seeks to grow through legitimate utility and service model. When we work 3 years of 16 hours days just to see some shitcoin pump to 100m MC, it can be challenging to remain motivated, or even feel like our efforts will be rewarded.
And then I zoom out. I look at our historic ability to overcome challenges both individually on a personal level and as a community and collective. We have always been resilient. We have always overcome, and we have seen our efforts rewarded overtime and growth slowly.
Slow and steady is healthy. Rome was not built in a day, and I am as optimistic and excited about what we are building at Frogs and TAP as I have ever been.
I am in the process of asking for my communities conviction, and I want to take the time to reaffirm to you all that I am equally reestablishing my conviction to you, to our shared goals and to the vision of our project. It has taken me recognizing my own personal shortcomings and working through them in order for me to feel confident professionally again, but I have done just that.
You cannot shake our conviction, you cannot stop our growth and I will not falter in my dedication to our future and I vow to do my best and to take care of myself in order to be the leader that I set out to be. I will continue to do my best.
Frogs are family
It is strange that, while so many in the NFT/memecoin space go FOMO-chasing each new shiny object, communities like @The_Crypt_NFT are both rewarding AND sticky because of the art, games, purposeful projects, and camaraderie. Great chefs like @v1rtualn0mad keep on cooking!
@jonty_sol@The_Crypt_NFT@v1rtualn0mad Exactly! Well, we can say it again while still earning and getting rewarded 👌😎
When You've found something good, at some point You want to share with it 🙏😇
Super happy to get my hands on 2 new Kats today that were the last ones on the #ME shelf 🤩 Already staked earning $KDNA and waiting for that next months payout which judging by @v1rtualn0mad and what he's got planned might be juicer than before😎💵
Don't fade @The_Crypt_NFT 😉
@The_Crypt_NFT@v1rtualn0mad This is the way. Love the ability to be minting these amazing NFTs, having the ability to exchange them for REAL PHYSICAL SILVER is a great play.
Not to mention these NFTs also come with some other benefits in terms of staking soon 🤯
Well played @The_Crypt_NFT 👏
#Solana has had a fantastic journey and while our members mint in Sol, they can exchange for #silver - the currency of the apocalypse. So on one hand they embrace the new but also trust the old. No need to spend more to convert. Just 20 #CryptCandy is all it takes, less for OGs