After more than 40 years of wearing contact lenses, I finally had a first: One got stuck in my eye. I tried to get it out myself for about 20 minutes. I’m an ENT physician, so naturally I was attempting to double-evert my own eyelid, which turns out to be much easier to do on someone else than on yourself. At some point I realized: this is not working. So off to the emergency room I went. Eventually the ophthalmology resident came down, double-everted the lid, examined my eye with the slit lamp, stained it, did a sweep underneath the lid... and got the contact out. Crisis averted. Eye intact. Ego mostly intact. 😂 And it actually reminded me of something I see all the time in business. Being capable doesn’t mean you should be able to solve every problem yourself. Sometimes you’re simply too close to it. Sometimes you need someone with a different skill set. And sometimes the smartest thing you can do is recognize when it’s time to stop struggling alone and bring in the right person. Even when you’re pretty sure you should be able to handle it yourself. What's something you tried to solve on your own recently before realizing you needed another set of eyes?

It rarely happens overnight. You’re building the business. Making the money. Taking care of everyone else. Handling the responsibilities. And somewhere along the way, your body, energy, confidence, and even your sense of who you are start slipping further down the priority list. Until one day, you actually notice. In this episode of Gloves Off, Zach Rana opens up about realizing he had become unhealthy without fully seeing it happen, and Dr. Sundar breaks down why vitality has to be treated as part of the strategy, not something you deal with after everything else is handled. Because your energy influences how you think, how you lead, how you love, how you earn, and whether you can actually enjoy the life you worked so hard to create. Build the wealth. Build the business. Chase the vision. Just make sure you’re not losing yourself while you do it. There’s much more to this conversation in the full episode of Gloves Off. #drkalpanasundar #glovesoffpodcast #highperformance #wealthstrategy #vitality

A few weeks ago, Xhoni was a stranger I met on LinkedIn and last week, I flew more than 6,000 miles to the South of France to spend four days with him and a group of people I had never met. Some people thought I was crazy. I did my due diligence, trusted myself, and got on the plane. And somewhere between the long conversations, the laughter, Monaco, swimming in the Mediterranean, staying a few extra days in Sanremo, eating Xhoni’s mom’s Albanian cooking, and being cared for in a way I honestly wasn’t expecting… something in me changed. We went there to talk about business. But what I came home thinking about most was life. I realized how much I had normalized being busy, achieving, pushing, building, and always looking toward the next thing. We make time to network. We make time for business. But somewhere along the way, we stopped making time to really know each other. Being around people who made time for meals, conversation, friendship, generosity, and real human connection made me realize how much I had been missing. It changed my standards. For the way I want to live. For the way I want to be treated. For the kind of people I want around me. And for what I’m no longer willing to accept. I still want to build something extraordinary. In fact, I came home with more clarity than I’ve had in a long time. But I don’t want a bigger business if it means a smaller life (and maybe that's the real shift). A few weeks ago, these people were strangers. Now I’m going home with friendships, memories, a much bigger vision for my future, and this strange feeling that I’m not quite the same person who got on that plane. Sometimes the biggest risk really is staying home. 💙

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I spent years in the medical field, hustling to stay productive and grow my businesses. Here's what I didn't realize back then. Hustle culture teaches us to push through, ignore the fatigue, and override the signals. But your nervous system keeps a record of all of it. Ignoring those signals doesn't make you more productive. It makes you less focused, less present, less effective. Slowing down isn't a detour from your goals. It's the foundation they depend on. The Vitality Wednesday videos (in the Vitality Classroom) are less than 15 minutes and designed to spark exactly this kind of conversation. Your responses shape what we cover next. This is built around you. Watch one this week and tell us: What has your energy been trying to tell you? - Dr. Kalpana