when your achievements don’t match your values

Not all exhaustion is physical.
Some of it is emotional —
the kind that builds up when we keep climbing ladders we don’t even believe in.

You can be successful on paper
and starving in your soul.

It happens when we chase goals that were never ours to begin with.
When we confuse external validation with internal worth.

We don’t rest.
Because we don’t feel real.

So we perform more.
Win more.
Hustle more.

Hoping that finally — finally —
something will stick.

But when your achievements don’t align with your values,
no amount of success feels safe.

And the emptiness?
That’s not failure.
That’s feedback.

🌒 go deeper:

→ read: emotional intelligence & achievement fatigue → chapter: decoding