A business result may look good, but the way we arrive at it puts a serious strain on life. Missed meetings, constant availability and absence of rest are not seen in every story of advancement.
It is not good to present those consequences as the inevitable price of all meaningful work. Some periods of effort we choose consciously, and some we maintain because we haven't checked how the work could be organized differently.
We need to ask what we want to preserve alongside the result. What relationship suffers? What obligation do we keep moving? What can we change now? Success deserves to be evaluated through the life left to us while we are building it.
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