Stop waiting for a miracle and engineer your own Ikigai. Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash Picture this. It is a Friday in mid-February. I am sitting at my desk, still riding the high of Valentine’s Day flowers, feeling completely untouchable. I have a title I love. A salary that pays the mortgage. An identity wrapped up in a neat, corporate bow. Then at 3:50 PM, a sterile calendar invite drops into my inbox. Boardroom. 4:00 PM. Just me. The prickle of dread hit my neck before I even stood up. I walked down the corridor, my heart hammering against my ribs. I knew. And I was right. In less than ten minutes, the ground didn’t just shift beneath my feet. It completely opened up and swallowed me whole. I drove home in a blur. I cried for days. I am going to tell you what happened next, and why losing everything is sometimes the only way to figure out who you actually are.…