Really a tough one for me to be honest!
I mean, how do you combine those 3 things that you love to do?
To work and do the things that bring you most of your joy, are what I like to call the necessary elements in your life to help you stay in balance.
My wellbeing depends on 3 basic elements to be exact:
1. My mental health
2. My physical health
3. My emotional health
How do I balance those three when trying to raise a child, set up a business and be the wife to my husband I want to be? The simple answer: I don't...
I'm struggling to balance those 3 things in my life if I'm really honest...
To me the most important person in my life has been my surroundings for a very long time...
But I can hear you think: that's not a person! What do you mean by that?
I used to be so concerned about the people and things surrounding me, that I didn't even pay attention to the amount of time and effort I would actually put into taking care of myself every day as well.
The truth is, my whole life I've been focusing on making sure everyone and everything around me would be feeling good, even if this would be on the cost of my own wellbeing. Shocking to read it like this, but imagine how I felt when I started to understand my own behavior and figured out I needed to change something to become healthier again.
This off course wasn't done overnight, but step by step I started to clear out the issues that no longer suited me in my life. The dream to feel better in my own skin, to really embrace who I am and believe in myself became slowly something real. I started to see the results and started to notice how things in my life started to shift.
From being tired (well, just exhausted is a better way to put it) to regaining slowly my own strength to be the woman I am supposed to be, has been quite a journey the last few years. To be able to do the things you love to do and also spend time with the people you love the most, I had to do some serious changes.
My first step in making those changes were admitting I had some issues...
Sounds simple, but oh boy, how complicated is it to really say this out loud to other people and confirm you need to actually change something in your life.
To me this is one of my biggest achievements so far, which actually brought me the real results that made me feel in balance and at peace for the first time in my life.
Does it mean I'm not struggling anymore? Off course it doesn't!
Everyone has issues, big and small, all the time! But it doesn't matter to have issues! Everyone is supposed to go through challenges in life to grow and become who you are supposed to be. It's such a relief knowing that my whole life I will be running into issues and that this is totally fine! I mean, REALLY, it's OK!
To be comfortable with your issues is actually the start of success...
Your success can only be build on the failures that you run into!
Just think about it: how would you know what you like and what works for you if you haven't first tried things that didn't work for you?
Is this even possible?