\"I am burned out NOT because I worked too hard.

My heart ached a little when my client shared that during our coaching session.

Because I know exactly how that feels. It is not the tiredness that comes from doing too much. It is the tiredness that comes from doing meaningful things in environments that slowly drain the meaning out of them.

Environments like:
→ Political workplaces where optics matter more than outcomes
→ Relationships built on appearances rather than honesty
→ Systems that reward the loudest voices, not the right ones

And yet you show up. You keep trying. You tell yourself it will get better.
Until one day, without quite noticing when, you realise you have not felt like yourself in a long time.
忘了做自己。

Here is what I have come to believe: the answer is NOT always to leave.
Sometimes it is to rebuild something different right where you are. To bring a different quality of presence into the same space. To become, in a small and deliberate way, the thing you wish existed there.
做自己。
That is harder than leaving. But it tends to last longer.

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