Work-Life Balance

The latter half of my 30's was spent seeking a work-life balance. I had no idea really what my life had become. I swirled into motherhood at the beginning of my 30's while finishing my Master's Degree. It was as though I had set myself up for constant BUSY during the time when I should have been taking it a little slower, after all, I had a tiny person who needed me every moment of her waking day.

By my mid- to late 30's I was now a mother of 2, commuting to and from a job at the end of the earth, and my daughters and relationships were suffering because of it. Then my health slipped away. I spent an entire month on the couch with pneumonia taking stalk of my life. Prior to this moment in time, sitting on the couch wasn't necessarily something I did for fun, it was more like an absent-minded "Oh, look at me sit for a second" kind of thing. Now my body forced me to sit. To re-calibrate. To figure out what I was going to do with the rest of my life.

This picture. It's the moment I remembered, while I lay on the couch, that my family would now be my number one priority and that I had to find a way to achieve it. Life has a funny way of stopping you dead in your tracks, looking you straight in the face and telling you exactly what you need to do. I needed to get my kids out of daycare, they were suffering from not being around their parents. I needed to stop driving across the city, the stress of that is a killer alone. I needed to start taking care of me.

For the entire next year I made myself a priority. I worked out regularly, I fed my body the fuel it needed, I actually cried the first time I made food for myself. I removed myself from my toxic work environment and moved into a much better fit.

If you have goals to optimize your life, let's talk about them. You are in the drivers seat, you can do this.

This was my view.

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