Episode 19 of The Rewired Podcast is now live.
This one asks a question you’ve been avoiding: what if the life that looks successful is the very thing suffocating you?
Your LinkedIn looks like a dream. Your calendar feels like a hostage situation. Somewhere between the promotions and the praise, you stopped noticing that you can’t remember the last time you felt alive.
Seventy hour weeks. Emails at midnight. Meetings that eat your mornings. Exhaustion worn like a badge of honour.
Who told you this was the price of success? More importantly, who benefits from you believing it?
Not you. Your health is declining. Your relationships are on life support. Your actual life happens in the margins, if it happens at all.
I can tell you the exact moment I woke up. A Tuesday morning, 6am, already ninety minutes into work without remembering deciding to start. I looked at my calendar and couldn’t find a single hour in the next two weeks that belonged to me. Not one. I’d optimised my entire existence for output and called it a life.
That wasn’t ambition. That was avoidance. Avoiding the silence. Avoiding the question of who I was without the performance.
The prison wasn’t my business or my clients or my responsibilities. The prison was the belief that exhaustion equals dedication. That more hours means more value. That sacrifice is the only path.
I built the cage. I held the key.
10 minutes on why the bars are gold plated but they’re still bars, and what happens when you finally stop polishing them. Click above to listen.
-Chris
P.S. Track your energy for one week. Not your hours. What leaves you sharper? What leaves you smaller? The pattern will show you exactly what needs to go.
