Is Your Life Still Right On Track?

Full Throttle

Your job doesn’t just matter to you – it drives you.

Pace, efficiency and results set the rhythm of your days. You lead, you push things forward, you thrive on pressure and momentum. The adrenaline, the buzz, the sense of being needed – it works for you. You’re used to pushing through, finding solutions, keeping things moving. Stopping isn’t how you’re wired.

And yet, you can feel the cost more clearly now. Your body is starting to complain: aches, tension, poor sleep, constant tiredness. Mentally, too, something has shifted. You’re more irritable than you used to be. Less patient. Switching off properly has become difficult, if not impossible. Things that once recharged you barely feature anymore – or don’t work the way they used to.

This pressure doesn’t stay contained to work. It spills into the rest of your life. Relationships suffer. Time with family or friends gets squeezed out. You may still be functioning at home – organising, providing, taking responsibility – but presence, ease and connection are harder to come by.

People in this phase often know something isn’t right and carry on anyway.

Not out of denial, but out of commitment, ambition, or a deep sense of duty. For a long time, your body and your environment absorb the strain. Until they don’t.

Your drive is a real strength. But it turns against you when it keeps overriding your limits. The question isn’t whether you can keep going – it’s how long you can do so without paying a much higher price.