The Shift Nobody Warns You About

I was outworking everyone. Closing deals nobody else could close. Collecting every accolade they had to give. And I was miserable.

Not because the work was hard. I was built for hard. What I wasn't built for — not yet — was what came next.

What got me to that level was intensity. What was required to go further was restraint. And those two things don't live in the same room without a fight.

I was still operating like a hungry closer when the room needed a steady leader. Still swinging when the situation called for stillness. Still proving myself when the opportunity required me to simply be trustworthy.

The shift wasn't about working harder. It was about becoming someone different — someone who could be trusted with more weight without cracking under it.

The real obstacle was the version of myself that hadn't caught up to the opportunity in front of me. The gap between who I was and who I needed to become was the only thing standing in my way.

If you're feeling that tension right now — where you're winning but stretched — you're not broken. You're at a breakpoint.

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