After leaving teaching for the only job I said I'd never do, I found my way to the top quickly, but there was a cost. I chained myself to long hours, and the arduous challenges that come with sales and was rewarded with recognition and money, but I almost surrendered something even more important. "What would it profit a man if he were to gain the wholeworld, but lose his own soul. Or what would a man give in exchange for his soul?"It took a failed business to see that I was failing at home and losing my soul-the things that were most important to me.