#004 - Doubt.

Is it a waste of time?

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Ayan Morshed
May 15, 2025

#004

Self-doubt.

I keep asking myself if what I’m learning and trying to build is a waste of time. If the market is too saturated to even try.

I heard about the hard times and uncertainty that entrepreneurs (or anyone who takes a similar path) have to go through before they find something that finally works for them. Still, when you’re actually feeling it in the moment, it’s hard to remember why you decided to do this in the first place.

And I’m burning through cash to get leads through UpWork, set up a cold email campaign, and the rest of my tech stack — part of the process apparently.

But to be honest, it’s simple. I have to remind myself that the doubt will inevitably come true if I don’t keep trying.

The only way to overcome this doubt is to prove to myself that I can do it through consistent action. It’s almost cliche advice, but why do I need this reminder over and over again? (Rhetorical question).

I don’t even think I’ve stuck with it long enough to make an accurate judgment of my abilities. It’s been about 3-4 weeks since genuinely starting?

Then again, how do you keep putting in the work when it feels like your energy levels are at 5%. I probably just need to fix my sleep schedule again, but that’s pretty much the update.

Akashi Updates:

  • A total of 82 proposals sent, about 3-4 messages with genuine interest

  • I think I learned that I need to be quicker at responding, leads go cold quick

  • I’m also going to try to add more automations to my portfolio to help convert those leads

  • I got some feedback on my UpWork cover letters — I should personalize the first sentence a bit more

  • I learned to scrape leads and automate personalized icebreakers per lead — still tweaking the prompt to get better outputs for the icebreakers

Side Notes:

—Ayan