On July 19th, 2019 I walked out of one of my favorite hotels in Buffalo, NY knowing that was my last moment working for a company I spent my entire early adulthood with and grew my entire professional career through. I loved my company and loved the hospitality industry, but as many road warriors I was burnt out.

Beginning in early 2012 I hit the road running. I had become a road warrior. I spent nearly 100% of the time spending much of my time focused on the hotels I oversaw. I often had no boundaries, starting my day at 7 AM, this being if I had already flown in if not it would generally start at 4 AM, and not retiring back to my room with whatever delivery food I got until after 8 PM where I would spend another 2 hours answering emails.

I left no time for myself. I was eating terribly and was barely leaving room in my life for friends and family (which they all got very use to me not being around).

This was not without trying to change things, without trying to approach work differently, without trying to approach my lifestyle differently, but I was not taking the time to find the tools and when I would look nothing would really land really land or stick. I was a true workaholic that was ready to change.

The only option I could land on was it was just time to hit the stop button.