Forging Forward: Leadership Path to Sustainable Success

Forging Forward: Leadership Path to Sustainable Success

We Awaken Through Exhaustion, Not Inspiration

From the ruins of what we thought we had to be, something truer begins to grow. Collapse isn’t the end—it’s the space where clarity takes root.

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Tarik Guney
Apr 08, 2025
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People don’t go inward to find happiness.

They go inward because they’re tired of not finding it.

Most journeys of self-awareness don’t start with inspiration, they start with exhaustion.

With a quiet, growing sense that something isn’t working.

We don’t wake up because everything is going well.

We wake up when the noise becomes unbearable.

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