The power of a reset

The math is brutal. You blink and a decade is gone. You meant to change careers. You meant to start that business. You meant to leave the relationship that was slowly draining you. But daily life has a way of swallowing years whole—the job, the routine, the comfort of the familiar. And then you're fifty, sixty, seventy, looking back at decades that slipped through your fingers like water.
The tragedy isn't that you failed. It's that you never really tried.
Here's what I believe: every decade or so, you need a complete reset. Not a minor adjustment. A full stop. A ruthless questioning of everything you think you want. Because most of us never set real goals—we have vague wishes, comfortable fantasies we'll never act on. To reach your actual potential, you need laser clarity on what matters. And you need the courage to admit when your current path will never get you there.
Maybe you don't need to blow up your entire life like I did. But maybe you need a new job. A new career. A new city. A new relationship. Something has to shake loose before more years vanish.
It's like those crypto games where you reset your level and lose everything—but your growth multiplies going forward. That's the bargain. Wipe the board clean, and your progress accelerates in ways that playing it safe never could.
The alternative? Reaching the end having never discovered what you were actually capable of. Never knowing how far you could have gone.
Most people die with that question unanswered. Don't be most people.