Ambition is not the problem.
Misalignment is.
Matthew has mastered the language of success — targets, growth, influence, momentum. His ambition has taken him far. Yet beneath achievement, something feels strained, as if effort is constantly pushing against an invisible resistance.
What follows is not a retreat from ambition, but a recalibration of it.
Boardroom to Bodhi Tree traces Matthew’s journey from driving life through force to moving with a deeper intelligence that already governs it. Along the way, he discovers that ambition does not need to be silenced — it needs to be aligned.
The book explores a timeless insight from Indian wisdom:
When alignment is right, life responds with grace.
When that grace is steady, it expresses itself as inner capacity — the kind that allows ambition to work without friction.
This grace was traditionally called Lakshmi — not as a goddess to appease, but as the lawful support life offers when harmony is intact. The capacities born from it were known as Aishwaryas — the real wealth behind clarity, resilience, flow, and sustained success.
This is not a story about slowing down.
It is a story about moving forward without resistance.
This is a journey from ambition to alignment.
From force to flow.
From success that strains to success that sustains.