I am someone that never does a New Year resolution. I believe if you want to change or do something.... start it today! However going to a number of parties and hearing everyones trivial goals for the New Year has me thinking. Everyone has a goal in life, a reason to live! Mine since going to architecture school was becoming licensed. I was a young and focused kid on the traditional path towards architecture. Going through all the IDP / ARE and hoops. Survived through the 2007 Great Recession working for peanuts just so I can keep on logging in my IDP! My license was the mountain I was climbing. I reached that pinnacle 3 years ago, and I have come to realize that I do not have a mountain to climb anymore. Sure I am still practicing at a firm and learning new things everyday but I feel there is no more challenge. No more thrill. Nothing to wake up too in the morning. I have accepted the state of mediocrity in my life. I am not the enthusiastic person I once was... and it reflects in my work and with the people I work with. I tend to just ‘fake’ my enthusiasm these days. I have fallen in this state of unhappiness professionally and trying to dig myself out. I go to work everyday with the gut wrenching feeling that I am going to be chained to my desk for the next 8 hours. This career has become a ‘job’ for me. Has anyone else been down this path and what is the current mountain you are climbing?