Most executives spend the first half of their careers collecting Haves, the middle chasing Dos, and — if they're intentional — finally arrive at Be. The tragedy is how many never make it. This framework maps the three stages of a career and the trap inside each one, built around a pattern from dozens of C-level coaching sessions where leaders who've won by every external measure sit down and say some version of the same sentence: "I have everything I thought I wanted, and yet."