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The Five Hidden Vampires Draining Your Purpose

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Ivan Hug
October 23, 2025

The 4-Energy-Battery Series: Purpose Battery Part II

Your exhaustion is a lie.

Not the physical kind you feel in your bones at 3 PM. The deeper kind. The exhaustion that coffee can't fix. The kind that makes Sunday evenings unbearable and Monday mornings feel like sentencing.

You've tried everything—better schedules, productivity apps, that meditation thing everyone swears by. Nothing sticks. Here's why: You're not burned out from working too hard. You're burned out from working without meaning.

This is Act Two of the 4-Energy-Battery Series. We tackled Physical, Mental, and Emotional energy. Yesterday, we established the Purpose Battery as the master battery—the difference between burning out in 7 years versus thriving for 30.

Today, we name the five vampires draining this battery while you sleep.

Purpose isn't found. It's protected.

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