We’ll call him Mark. On paper, Mark had everything most people are chasing, great career, excellent income, respected by leadership, healthy, driven, disciplined. Then he said something that really completely changed our conversation. He said, “Fergie, I don’t even know what I enjoy anymore.”

That sentence wasn’t about work. It wasn’t about money. It wasn’t even about burnout. It was about identity. As we kept talking, I realized what had happened. Every decision in his life had become about performance. Every book had to make him better.

Every workout had to improve him. Every conversation needed a purpose. Even vacations became another goal to maximize. So I asked him one simple question, “Mark, [00:01:00] when was the last time you did something simply ’cause it made you smile?” He couldn’t answer, And that’s when I told him something I want you to hear today.

You didn’t lose yourself, you slowly left yourself. Every time you ignored your own needs, every time you stayed quiet to keep someone else comfortable, every time you told yourself, “I’ll get back to me later.” Those little compromises added up.

Here’s this week’s coaching nugget. You don’t find yourself, you stop abandoning yourself. So here’s your challenge. First, pay attention to small moments where you betray yourself by saying yes when you really mean no. Second, ask yourself one question every day, “What do I want?” Not what everyone else wants.

What do you want? And finally, do one thing this week that has absolutely no agenda except bringing you joy. No productivity, no performance, no proving, just living. Because the greatest comeback you may ever make isn’t in your career, it isn’t in your finances, it’s coming back to yourself. And if you’re finding yourself not coming back to yourself and you wanna have a free complimentary hour of [00:02:00] power and we kinda work through it and shine a light on that blind spot, then give me a call.

248-739-6362. Again, 248-739-6362. 248-739-6362. Or hop on our website,

timetoshinetoday.com/hop. Again, timetoshinetoday.com/H-O-P. So until next week, everybody stay uncommon. Keep with yourself. Don’t abandon yourself. Oh, and if you like this, please hit the like button. S- and subscribe. My sponsors, affiliates absolutely love it, and I love to hear your feedback, whether it’s good, bad, constructive, negative, whatever it is, I love to hear it.

So again, until next week, get out there, get after it, serve, love. Absolutely love your guts.