Overconsumption pushed me to my limit — why I disappeared from Medium for 4 months.

My last post on medium was around 4 months ago.

I’ve been deeply reflecting about this small corner on the internet where I engage with around 8000 people through my writing, and if I have been adding value to their life.

The motivation to start writing here stemmed from countless hours spent consuming self-improvement content, to the point where I had my own ideas that I believed people could benefit from.

Delving deeper and deeper into this thought, I realised, is this really my objective with this little blog? Am I truly providing value to my audience, or merely providing more content in a world already filled with so much content?

On here, I’ve always stressed on how taking action is so much more important than planning or consuming content, but I realised that is what I was doing, I was just adding to the noise, with no proper conclusion.

Over this huge break, I revisited my own articles and realised that I myself wasn’t applying many of the ideas I had once been so excited to share about.

It almost felt like I was repeatedly going through a temporary phase of motivation — sharing and following a new idea for a while, only to quickly shift my focus on finding newer, “better” approaches soon after.

This whole realisation led to a huge mindset shift, and I went completely blank for the past 4 months.