My New York Moment: The Day I Walked Away

Have you ever hit a massive milestone in your career, one of those "life goals" and found yourself feeling…completely empty?

Have you ever hit a massive milestone in your career, one of those “life goals” and found yourself feeling…completely empty?

I stood in New York, looking out at the city I’d dreamed about for years. I’d made it. And I felt nothing.

That moment forced a reckoning. The goal wasn’t wrong. The story I’d attached to it was. I thought achievement would change how I felt. It didn’t.

What changed me was walking away from who I thought I should be, and starting to lead myself from the inside out.