Confront Your Concerns

So when you're at a place where you've kind of grown up, right, and you've been there for long enough to, where you have a lot of friends there who've kind of grown up in the same cohort class with you, you know how things work in the company, you know who to go to for what. And the biggest thing is you're attached to your team because you built that team. And by the time I left, my team was a few hundred folks, and I had handpicked many of those folks, and I loved them, and so I didn't want to. To leave them. But at the same time, when you're eight years into somewhere, you ask yourself, am I a lifer? And is this what I want to do for the rest of my career? Or, like, what is happening here? What do I actually want? And if there is something where. When you close, right before you close your eyes to go to sleep, and right when you open them, when you wake up in the morning, if you keep finding yourself thinking about something or thinking to yourself, I. I should be happier. Why am I not happier? I should be more grateful for what I already have. And if you find yourself kind of thinking about an idea or thinking about a possibility, pay attention and maybe write it down for yourself and go back and look longitudinally across a few weeks, because you'll find that your gut instinct or your kind of sense of what you want is already there. You just may be a little afraid to act on it. And so now I try. When there's something that keeps coming up for two weeks or more, I already know I gotta act on this, and this is something that is bothering me, and I just need to change it.