From the path well-traveled…
I went to school, got good grades and eventually got an MBA (cue proud parent moment). Then I got myself a well-paying, corporate job and spent the next 13 years of my life working in the areas of project management, strategy, leadership development and climbing the proverbial ladder.
By most people’s standards, I’d made it.
I was making a six-figure salary, owned my own home and had a great group of friends and family.
Yet most days I dreaded going to work. Deep down I knew this was not what I wanted for my life. Why couldn’t I be like everyone else and be grateful I had a good paycheque and a few weeks of vacation each year to escape my otherwise unhappy career?
Why couldn’t I just show up, do the work and live for the weekends? #TGIF #FRIYAY!
But to me, it seemed like the higher I climbed, the further I got from who I was and what mattered to me. I was angry, frustrated and felt helpless. I knew something had to change.