I've been struggling with work life balance as well. Thankfully I've been burned out enough on different things to know how to handle it; continuing your hobbies is so important. This year I started a garden. Fighting the urge to hurry up and finish weeding so I can get back to staring at my screen is difficult sometimes, but absolutely necessary. My partner sometimes asks me why I comment that I don't feel like I have enough time to do everything, but then spend hours at a time in the garden some days. I tell him that it's because it's necessary for my mental health, and if I didn't do it, I wouldn't be using the time efficiently to work, anyway. Like you said, it fills the creative cup. I suppose it's not that I don't have enough time to do everything, I don't have enough bandwidth to do it all as quickly as I would like. Oh if only we could all just be 100% all the time! What a luxury that would be. :)
I haven't read this yet but I know it will be fire and I immediately screamed YOU DON'T HAVE TO MONETIZE YOUR PASSION, PEOPLE because I have a LOT of thoughts and feelings on how that's pushed lol I'll get back to this later and word vom like usual. SO glad you talked about this!
I've been struggling with work life balance as well. Thankfully I've been burned out enough on different things to know how to handle it; continuing your hobbies is so important. This year I started a garden. Fighting the urge to hurry up and finish weeding so I can get back to staring at my screen is difficult sometimes, but absolutely necessary. My partner sometimes asks me why I comment that I don't feel like I have enough time to do everything, but then spend hours at a time in the garden some days. I tell him that it's because it's necessary for my mental health, and if I didn't do it, I wouldn't be using the time efficiently to work, anyway. Like you said, it fills the creative cup. I suppose it's not that I don't have enough time to do everything, I don't have enough bandwidth to do it all as quickly as I would like. Oh if only we could all just be 100% all the time! What a luxury that would be. :)
Amy, this email hit me right in the…
Thank you so much for sharing, I relate SO HARD. I think this is an extremely important topic to talk about, really well communicated, too.
I’m so happy you’ve found your balance!
Krissie xxx
I haven't read this yet but I know it will be fire and I immediately screamed YOU DON'T HAVE TO MONETIZE YOUR PASSION, PEOPLE because I have a LOT of thoughts and feelings on how that's pushed lol I'll get back to this later and word vom like usual. SO glad you talked about this!