Needing a change in life? This could be the answer for the leaders/ceo's/cxo's

You wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is reach for your phone

Your throat is dry, your body heavy, stiff, and in a degree of discomfort. You didn't get enough sleep.

You head straight to your emails. You hold your breath with anticipation of starting your day reactively.

You’re agitated and frustrated with yourself for not being fully present with your family but that frustration doesn’t seem to be enough to make you stop.

You use porridge and coffee to lift your energy (before a later crash).

You start work and you're in the zone. It's a funny thing but the work is a place in life where you have reached a level of unconscious competence.

The irony of the fact that the source of your success and even fulfilment is also the likely source of much of your stress is not lost.

You constantly feel like an impostor.

You take responsibility for everything, solve every problem - meetings, conference calls, emails, deadlines, you know your business inside out but as a result you’re involved in everything, it’s a rush but it’s exhausting and at times overwhelming.

You've become accustomed to the fact that everyone wants your time, energy, help and expertise.

You're in fire fighter mode all of the time.

You're conscious daily of a little voice at the back of your mind.

"Drink some water"
"don't eat the biscuits"
"stop relying on coffee"
"go for a walk"
"stretch"
"have a salad"
"Do some exercise"
"Put your phone away"
"Give them attention"
"Don't snap"
“Deligate”
“Stop micro-managing”

But you can’t see a way to turn it around, things are moving too fast.

You finally leave the office, not because of triumph or a job done but due to a combination resignation, guilt, exhaustion and self preservation.

You arrive home and if you're honest you would like some time to relax and unwind but you keep quiet, you know your family deserve your attention.

You grab a glass of wine or a beer, the only way you can force yourself to unwind.

Your relationship feels strained, your partner wants attention but your mind is stuck in a world half way between trying to relax and problem solving mode. Your abrupt responses provoke emotional fall out.

Fall out that you don't feel you have the energy to fix, so you withdraw. You avoid subjects, you avoid intimacy.

You nudge your children toward play that requires the least effort on your part.

In-between visits to your phone you eat, put the kids to bed and finally collapse, with a bottle of wine on the sofa, probably do a few emails.

And there you stay hoping to be pulled into the television into a world that might distract you enough to allow you to get a better rest tonight.

A rest that you don't really believe will come or truly meet the requirements. You stay up late almost guaranteeing the cycle will start again tomorrow.

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