You don’t know how else to be. It started when you were a child and it’s always been this way. You’ll put your hand up for the tough jobs. You’ll roll up your sleeves and get the hard stuff done. Because of this key trait, you’ve carved a name out for yourself in whatever field you’ve turned your hand to.

Because the higher you go, the more you feel you can’t trust others, no one really gets what you go through, nor do they understand the amount of pressure bearing down on you and your shoulders. You certainly don’t want to make yourself look weak, vulnerable, or be taken advantage of. The Lone Wolf is a big part of your identity, yet, you crave truth and support more than ever.

This means you have great empathy, which is something wonderful to bring to the business table and life in general. People around you feel like they’re understood, and that you’re approachable and generous.

Because you love to be liked, you may also secretly struggle with setting healthy boundaries, and therefore end up overworking, over-giving, and over-doing it, personally and professionally. Without meaning to. More than likely, you have problems with valuing yourself and reigning in your martyr energy.

You feel like you’ve never quite fitted in. Probably the black sheep of your family. You break the rules to get things done. Of course, you do it with such finesse it’s become one of your hallmark signatures. If someone says something can’t be done, you’ll be chomping at the bit to prove them wrong. Just because.

You end up depleting your energetic resources, and you’ll be more inclined to burn out, exhaustion, energy swings, and running yourself ragged. You'll also have to bulldoze your way through everything. This leaves you feeling drained so you're unable to go after the bigger stuff simply because you don’t have the bandwidth for it.

Because you’re used to being recognized for your academic successes, intelligence, and ideas, your head is your go-to default for feeling safe whenever faced with a crisis. You’re wonderful at coming up with solutions and are a savvy strategist.

At times you get tangled up in your mind and feel zapped from using so much brainpower. You also often deny your heart’s wisdom, and brush off your intuition because it's easy for you to get stuck in your head and try to figure everything out using rationale and logic alone. When you're in this space, you feel like you have to make and force things to happen. What this really means is you’ve got a huge amount of untapped potential.

Following on from the previous point, because of your analytical prowess, you’re great at business. You thrive in the cut and thrust of the commercial world. When you’re doing business you feel like you’re in your element. Success is hardwired into your DNA. Manifesting money, income, and results is just what you do.

Namely your family, relationship, happiness, and/or health, to gain greater success in the business world. True success is not a one-dimensional game. Deep down you know this, you just don’t quite know how to go about it without losing your momentum in the business. So, you keep putting it on the backburner for when you've got more time or bandwidth.

This makes you exciting to be around, and inspirational, and you will probably also be one of the most accomplished people, if not the most accomplished, in your circle. When you achieve something big, you are on the highest of highs and incredibly magnetic.

Whenever you become flooded with self-doubt. Especially if things don't go to plan. The inner critic’s harsh voice is ever-present to remind you that you’re not enough, not achieving enough, questioning your decisions, and undermining your confidence. To combat this you’ve adopted masks and armor, hustling and pushing harder to get through your days, all the while worrying when the facade may begin to unravel.

You’re known for your expertise, your skills, and your reputation proceeds you. You know that others sceretly envy you for what you can do. You make it look all so easy. Being in your zone of excellence has paid off for you financially, with recognition, rewards, respect, and success galore.

But you’ve denied some of your greatest abilities and gifts because you’re worried about how others might perceive you, once you let that cat out of the bag. There is a control freak lurking in your psyche that feels the need to dictate every single thing you do and say. Your best talents feel too easy to be respected. So you keep a lid on your true genius, contracting your power and impact in the process.

You think big. You can imagine the future in an elevated way and strive to make the world a better place with your unique contribution. You're always focused on the big picture. You see glaring gaps and gaping holes in the way things are done currently, and want to make some serious changes that will make a huge difference and impact peoples lives.

You also often miss stuff that is happening right in front of you because you're so busy looking at the horizon. When the perfectionist kicks in and runs rampant, it is exhausting trying to manage your demands on yourself, let alone everything else you’ve got going on in your busy life. Sometimes you wish someone would just come along and tell you the next best steps to take, so it would take some pressure off you having to think and lead all the time.

Truth be told, you're actually more of an overachiever, you just don't like calling yourself that because it feels pretentious. You've always been able to take anything results-based and make it bigger, better, and bolder. If someone sets a particular benchmark, you're always going to skyrocket past it. You can't help yourself. You know what it takes to get the job done and you love getting the gold stars.

No one is challenging you because you're such a rockstar. Your slowing down doesn't look like other people's slowing down because you're always on beast mode. Your 70% is someone else's 150%. You feel like a fraud caught between two worlds. There's a part of you that freaks out and pulls back when you don't know what's coming next or if you can handle what comes next. For all of your mighty success, you still feel like an imposter who is just winging it.

You have a sacred mission, a big audacious vision designed to impact the world burning in your heart 24/7.... that you’ve been thinking about and living with for a long, long time. Possibly a decade or longer. You've been telling yourself that "you're waiting for the right time" to get things underway.

You haven’t even told your partner or spouse about it. Then there’s the added burden of harboring this secret dream and not unleashing it. It's like trying to domesticate a wild lion. Lately, as time has been accelerating, you're often waking at 3 AM with this idea turning over and over in your mind. It's becoming relentless and restless, but you don't even know where to begin. Sometimes you wonder if you've really got what it takes to make it a reality.