I have a question for you...

I wonder if you'll find this question easy or difficult to answer.

It should be at least a little tricky I believe.

What, dearest gentle reader, is your favourite part of your day?

Or maybe your week?

Did your mind immediately go to when you arrive home from work? Or the weekend? Perhaps playing with your kids, or going out with friends? Hitting the gym or long walks on a Sunday?

I hope not. I hope you had to pause and think about it, weigh it up and maybe even decide that you couldn't just pick one part, or if you could, there wasn't much in it.

• My favourite part of the day is when my kiddies come in for sleepy snuggles at silly o'clock in the morning.

• But my favourite part of the day is also walking my little wolf through the countryside when it's just me and her and the bird song.

• And my favourite part of the day is also speaking to clients, the amazing conversations we have and the breakthroughs they make.

• My favourite part of the day is catching up with my husband

• It's the hugs when I pick my kids up from school, it's the crazy kitchen disco, it's catching up with friends, it's bedtime stories, it's...

Not all of those things happen every day, but multiple of them will happen in one day.

At the same time, no day is made up exclusively of highlights

I might have cleaned the bathroom, popped to the supermarket, sat on hold waiting to get a Drs appointment, done laundry

My point is that although we talk about things like work-life balance. It really isn't a scale.

It's a jigsaw or a tapestry, and all the parts of us make it.

Our work, our business is one thread or piece that makes up the whole colourful picture that is our life. And I hope that multiple parts of your life bring you joy, that weave together to create something that on the scale tips in favour of joyous.

If your business or work has become all-consuming, or too stressful to be joyous anymore, perhaps it's time to talk about how we can start addressing your work-life balance and put you back in control of the picture you're crafting.

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Hi, I'm Kate and I help vision-led business owners get off the hamster wheel of running their business and moving in the direction of their dreams. (Sometimes there is chocolate or cake, but if your dreams involve more green smoothies, that's fine too!)

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