Purpose and Alignment

I cared about providing for my family. I also used that responsibility to explain my absence, instead of listening to what they needed from me.

Overwork and avoided conversations began to feel normal. I had to notice what I was accepting and what it was costing the people around me.

Nothing dramatic had happened that day. I was simply exhausted, and I had to ask why I kept treating that as proof of commitment.

The business, the show and the travel kept me busy. I had to ask how the life I was living had become so distant from the one I wanted.

I came home from a business trip and took another call. When my wife asked me to leave the room, I felt hurt before I looked at my own part in it.

I was proud of how much I could carry. Eventually I had to ask which commitments deserved the effort and which were there because I had stopped questioning them.

I was judging my family while overlooking the care they still gave me. I had work to do before asking them to trust that I had changed.