
At Microsoft, business was booming.
I was winning awards, hitting targets, and chasing every metric.
From the outside, I looked like I had it all dialed in.
But inside, my body was falling apart.
I was eating clean. Doing what everyone said was healthy.
The problem was, those foods were wrecking me.
Energy crashed. Focus slipped. Mornings got harder.
The system was breaking — and the system was me.
So I did what I knew best. I treated it like a business problem.
I built a dashboard. Measured everything. Fixed the inputs.
Within months, my body started running like a high-performance machine again.
“Turns out the best product I ever optimized was me.”
Once my body was dialed in, my mind was still on overdrive.
I loved the chaos. The speed. The rush.
Every win hit like caffeine. Every new goal came faster than the last.
But speed without control burns out engines.
I didn’t need more acceleration. I needed gears.
At Plum Village in Bordeaux, I discovered that awareness is the ultimate performance enhancer.
It taught me how to switch modes, recover faster, and connect deeper.
That work changed my relationship with myself, with others, and with the world around me.
Focus stopped being about intensity and started being about control.
“Presence isn’t peace. It’s power without noise.”
I had built success in the city.
A good job, good people, a good life on paper.
But something in me was restless.
I was moving fast, but not forward.
So I made a decision that scared me.
I left the city and moved to a small ski town, trading convenience for connection.
It wasn’t about slowing down. It was about waking up.
Here, I found what real community feels like.
The more I gave, the more I got.
The more open I was, the more supported I became.
This place taught me that growth doesn’t come from adding more.
It comes from showing up fully where you are.
“When you find the courage to change your environment, it changes you right back.”
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