Scaling Back & Loving It

Earlier this week I was driving, glanced up and saw the beautiful Autumn trees hanging over the street (love these types of streets) and had to capture it, later that night I said to my husband “how have I never realized how pretty Autumn is?” and it dawned on me that I’ve always been so super busy with life that I’d been missing so much beauty around us.....

Sometimes when we scale right back and actually follow what really inspires us and gives us purpose we discover SO much more. The lifestyle I've created now is allowing me to enjoy special moments, I choose who I'm going to spend my time with and do what I want to, not what I HAVE  to do. I truly feel like I'm living a life by design instead of default. I’m not saying you have to drop everything and do an Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat Pray Love) but I feel like looking back I was rushing around so much and not enjoying life to its fullest. I wasn’t putting limits in place and saying NO enough to things. Are you someone who says YES to everything all the time then goes into overwhelm? Are you the employee who always does the extra unpaid hours without being rewarded? (totally been there!) Are you the employer who is working 80+ hour weeks missing out on family time because you haven’t learnt to delegate? Are you burning the candle at both ends then suddenly gets wiped out with a migraine or sickness? Unfortunately, people are very quick to label it as being “selfish” But did you know in the Mandarin language, there are two words for "selfish" — and how one-word means "to be greedy or hoarding", and how the other word means "to do something good for yourself”

So please be good to yourself, think about what you can improve on, where you should say NO more,  scale back and enjoy life  xx