are you on the success hamster wheel?

this one goes out to all my type-a, high-achiever, perfectionistic (or perfectionist-adjacent) folks…

chances are, where you are in your life today used to be a pipe dream (if not one you didn't even dare to dream) years ago.

yet, you're now on to the next, on the ever-rotating treadmill of 'success'.

what was once the ceiling to reach, is now the floor (your baseline from which you want to get to the next level).

there's nothing wrong with the desire to grow and achieve.

like anything, too much of a 'good' thing can be a 'bad' thing.

if you're over-indexing on it, it becomes a compulsion or addiction (which is often glossing over the things that are trying to get your attention by staying preoccupied with being in action and therefore drowning out those messages).

perhaps you've been conditioned to believe that slowing down is lazy. or that if you don't keep growing at all times, that you'll miss out on something.

what if you gave yourself a chance to be in the experience you're currently having?

to tune in, let your nervous system relax, and ask what it's truly seeking and wanting to feel? then, aligning whatever action you take next with that information?

(knowing that you can always go back to the perpetual state of action you're really skilled at doing?)

sometimes it's the things we're really great at, that also happen to be culturally applauded, that are really just shields or coping mechanisms for us to protect those vulnerable parts of ourselves we've done a great job at hiding.

what if you invited in the uncovering of that part of yourself as part of your definition of success, so that when you slow town and tune in, you feel less urgency to be on to the next 'productive thing'?