Are you giving yourself enough?

Are you giving yourself enough? 

Enough time? Enough credit? Enough love?

We - especially the females of the species, and even more especially those brought up in a country with a protestant work ethic - seldom give ourselves enough.

We give give give.

And sometimes we keep giving till we are totally burned out, and no use to anyone, least of all ourselves! If you want to make a mark, write that book, learn that instrument, give that talk, get that qualification, you have to make time to do it and that means making time along with all the things that make your life so rich.

👉 Family

👉 Friends

👉 Outings

👉 Activities

👉 Secret desires

👉 Dogs!

If these things are going to happen, we mustn’t let our work drive them out - they have to be scheduled, and not just in the corners of your life, but centre stage! 

They do say that if you don’t make time to look after yourself, you’ll have to take time to be ill.

Who wants that?

Who wants to arrive at a place where it’s no longer possible to do all those things you’ve always wanted to do?

👉 Play the piano

👉 Write a book

👉 Start a venture

👉 Travel

👉 Make things

👉 Design a garden

👉 Paint pictures

So I want you to follow my lead this summer, and give yourself some time off!

If you have your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your foot to the pedal .. apart from being a contortionist 😄 - you’ll run out of steam and have nothing left for what really matters in your life.

Read this post which was my very first post on this site. And it’s still just as true as it was three years ago!

There’s nothing new under the sun

So now is the time for you to enrol in the classes that will teach you what you want to learn. Take time off from your work - nobody will die! Sort out in your mind what you really want to achieve in the time you have left and DO IT! As you’ve probably seen, I’m taking the summer off to devote my energies to a project dear to me.

❤️ What’s the project most dear to you?

⏳ The one you should be doing right now?

See you later, with great achievements under your belt!