Success isn’t about brute force. Push harder, hustle more, never back down—that was my formula. It worked until it didn’t. Trekking broke that illusion. You can grind your way up a mountain, but if you ignore the signs—the shifting weather, the thin air, the exhaustion settling deep in your bones—you won’t make it. Or worse, you’ll make it and regret it. Real success isn’t about suffering for the sake of it. It’s about knowing when to push and when to pause. I’ve gotten it wrong plenty of times. Forced my way through when I should have …
The Goals You Should Fear More Than Failure
For years, I treated goal-setting like a high-stakes game. Pick a target, charge ahead, and deal with the fallout later. And for a while, it worked—until I started achieving my goals and realizing they came at a cost I hadn’t accounted for. That’s where Non-Negotiables come in. They aren’t just guardrails; they’re the invisible lines I refuse to cross. The things that, if lost, would make any achievement feel hollow. Like the time I was so focused on hitting a major career milestone that I ignored the creeping exhaustion. My workouts? …
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All or Nothing, Done Right
There’s a moment, right before the final push, when everything inside starts screaming to stop. The summit is right there, 100 steps away, but those 100 steps stretch into 10,000. The pack on my back, a mere 6 kilos, swells into an unbearable 100. My mind turns against me, whispering all the reasons why this was a bad idea to begin with. Every time, the battle is the same. Every time, the answer is the same. Keep going. Not because someone is watching. Not because there’s applause waiting at the end. Not because of some grand meaning …
Protected: Taking Back My Power
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The Weight I Mistook for Mine
When I was little, I thought if I tried hard enough, I could fix everything. I could be the glue that held things together. The steady force that made life better. The one who solved the problems that were never really mine to solve. So I worked. I studied. I did everything right. I climbed higher, pushed harder, sacrificed more. Because I believed in a simple equation: if I succeed, things will be okay. But no one tells you what happens when you win the wrong game. No one tells you that people who hand you their burdens won’t …
The Privilege No One Talks About
I used to think privilege was about money, connections, or where you were born. But over the years, I’ve realized there’s a kind of privilege that’s just as powerful, yet rarely acknowledged: mindset and perspective privilege. Some people grow up with a mindset that failure is just a stepping stone. I remember a childhood friend who always saw failures as experiments—whether it was a failed school project or losing a game, he simply adjusted and tried again. He saw obstacles as challenges, not roadblocks. He believed his efforts would lead …