You've built the life. It looks good. Why doesn't it feel that way?

You got good at something. Then better. Running your own business, or leading at a high level, became the natural next step. You didn't know where it would go - you just kept going and one day found yourself here.

And here is different to what you expected. More complex. More demanding. A different set of problems that require something different from you than the thing that got you this far.

Maybe you're working in it more than you want to be. The strategic stuff keeps getting pushed. Or maybe work is running fine - it's something else that's off. A flatness you can't name. A gap between what you've built and how it actually feels.

For some men, it's home that's paying the price. The relationship running on fumes. The kids getting the leftover version of you. You've been telling yourself you'll fix it when things slow down. They don't slow down.

One room is working. The other isn't. And you can't work out why.

What you've tried hasn't worked. Grinding harder isn't doing it.