WEEKENDS USED TO BE FOR RELAXATION

But something has changed. Now, they are for recovery.

Just enough rest to survive Monday.

To get back in. To perform again.

Push it down.

Keep going. Cannot let the company down. Cannot let the team down.

I must be strong.

And it works.

The KPIs get hit.

The targets get met.

The team gets managed.

End of year.

Numbers reached. Everyone celebrates.

And then the new numbers come.

Higher this time.

Because you want to be the best. You work for the best.

So you give it all again.

But something inside gives.

Piece by piece.

A friend recently posted about this on LinkedIn and described it as being hungry versus healthy.

Whether you can have both.

It's a real question.

But the people I sit across from aren't choosing between hungry and healthy.

They're choosing between performing and being.

And most of them have been performing for so long they've stopped noticing the difference.

Somewhere along the way, the conversations that actually mattered, with themselves, with the people closest to them, got quieter.

Easier to avoid.

That's not hunger.

That's what happens when a coping structure becomes your personality.

A holiday doesn't fix it.

Better boundaries don't fix it. A new job doesn't fix it.

It comes back. Because the structure underneath hasn't changed.

That's what we actually work on.

Not the exhaustion. What's underneath it. Why it keep returning? What it's protecting?

It's time to find yourself again.

That conversation starts in the Discovery Hub. Free.

Come in when you're ready.

p/s when did weekends stop feeling like rest for you?

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