It Took Me 10+ Years To Realize What I Can Write In the Next 5 Minutes
Steal it all
I never thought I would say what I’m about to say.
You see, 10 years ago, I was desperate to ‘make it’. All my energy went into figuring out how to earn climb the corporate ladder, to get the best job, and build the best career for myself.
I was (and always have been) obsessed with success. To me, that was a measure of a good life, to me, making it to the mountaintop was always the goal.
But everything changed when my life unfolded.
What happens when you’re a million miles away
In my mid-20s, I realized, this mountain top was light years away.
Like I was as far away as physically possible from where I wanted to be.
I was a total disaster. I barely had the energy to function, work was a daily battle, and I was exhausted by life. I would wake up, travel an hour to work, work 7:30 am til 6:30 pm, was consumed by work.
My body was there but my mind was elsewhere — dreaming about everything I could do. Everything I wasn’t doing right now.
I’d get home, throw something beige in the oven, slop onto the sofa feeling like my life was going nowhere, and…
