.... Work life balance is more work than life! I've just rediscovered this blog page that I started in 2009 and see that even then I was complaining about how hectic my life was. Strange that seven years on this unremitting work related activity has finally led me to give up full time employment and become a free-lance leadership developmnent consultant. And a fortnight into my new life I have work beginning to fill up the blank pages of the diary and most importantly I feel that I have my life back.
How wonderful it is to give myself permission to take a day off to go to the Quilt show at Edinburgh, and to spend the whole weekend quilting! Maybe there is some hope that the five quilt tops that are pieced but unquilted will finally be completed and that I can start making some of the kits I've been buying for years. Shorter evenings are now spent knitting socks with wool from my stash and catching up on blog posts from knitters I haven't seen in ages. Long may it last.
My friends tell me I look relaxed and I know I am sleeping better (and longer now that I am no longer regularly getting up at 04:30 to drive to the airport).
Of course I do still have to earn a living, so I can't be taking days off every week -- I'll have to go out and find work as well as design and deliver it. But for a few weeks perhaps, I'll work part-time, and see whether I can't slow down time enough to enjoy it.
Monday 22 February 2016
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