What scared me was that I was about to follow a path that didn’t align with what I truly wanted for my career. I wasn’t going to be internally fulfilled by the role despite it being externally validating.

It’s clear the way we work today is not sustainable. People are burning out. They’re losing their sense of purpose. And they’re ready to do things differently, like ‘quiet quitting’. The thing is, quiet quitting is just as unsustainable as the way we’re currently working.

Success without mindfulness is possible but limited. We have grown up in a society that tells us that job title + salary = success.

We all have stories. Stories we create about ourselves. We spend our time collecting specific experiences to reinforce these stories. We believe that, the more we can back up these stores, the more true they become.

I didn’t know it at the time but this was the beginning of a big shift for me. Each of these events provided me with a gift that would help me make this transition into a new version of myself.