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A man spent a decade building a business and missing his daughter's childhood. When his five-year-old asked why he worked so much, he realized the money hadn't made him happy. He felt like a failure despite financial success.
A man spent a decade building a business and missing his daughter's childhood. When his five-year-old asked why he worked so much, he realized the money hadn't made him happy. He felt like a failure despite financial success.
I have everything I ever wanted and I'm fucking miserable.
After all of these years of hard work, after all the sacrifices, you know, my oldest daughter, I barely saw her for the first 5 or 6 years of her life because I was always working and I had put so much into the business. And so you've been grinding for 10 years? Yeah, I was in the office every morning early until late at night. So I would get home and If I was lucky, you know, I could spend a little bit of time with my first daughter before she went to bed, and then I would go to bed, but I couldn't sleep, and I felt like a failure. I thought that I should have everything figured out. One of the pivotal moments for me was Saturday in my office at home working, and my daughter, who was maybe 5 years old at the time, walks into my office, looks at me, and she said, Daddy, why are you working so much? And I thought, oh shit, that's a really good question. And in that moment, I promised myself that I was going to find a way to be happy because I had kept waiting and waiting and waiting for the fulfillment to come. And it just wasn't.
You thought money would make you happy. It doesn't work that way. What do you do from there?
What I realized along the way is that all I had to do was
