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On a warm fall day in October 2012, I laced up my sneakers and found myself running through Golden Gate Park deep in thought. I had recently shut down my startup Joyo, a coaching platform focused on careers and happiness. After many months of running on empty in every imaginable way, I was completely exhausted and ironically not at my happiest. I had pushed hard to realize my dream, but in the process of doing so lost the very thing that I was so adamantly chasing after in the first place.

With each step I took that afternoon, I came closer and closer to the conclusion that I was done running. I was done striving for some far out and elusive state of having “made it.” I was done living for later. I was done with feeling insanely tired all of the time. F-it. I wanted to live now. I wanted to be joyous in the moment, regardless of what that made me. Maybe I’d be less interesting. Maybe my resume would be less sexy. Who knows? I didn’t have the answer. All I knew is that I had to change the way that I lived. Both the rewards of success and the lessons of failure would always feel irrelevant to me, if it meant losing the ability to wake up every morning and feel deeply alive. (more…)