Work Less Make More
Sep 02, 2024
Densely dark, stirringly quiet, peaceful. I raise my head from the gentle cloud of night, slowly awakening from my sanctuary, turn my phone over - 5:30 am.
My alarm isn't set to go off for another hour but I jump out of bed, put the kettle on, and light my meditation candle. Tea, meditation then I head out for my morning coffee walk - a walk where I set my intentions for the day and my business.
This is light years away from the days when the alarm would go off and I thought - no, no, no, not already… I've never been a snooze pusher so I would get up, grab a cup of coffee, throw on my power workout pant/business shirt (thanks remote work ‘from the waist-up calls’) and take a seat at my computer for the next 10-14 hours - more often than not 6 days/week.
Exhausted and on the edge of burnout I asked myself, what's it all for? No dramatic pause here - this is a valid and genuine question I felt deep inside, a question you may be asking yourself too.
The most empowering part of working less and having more (more time, joy, energy, money, purpose) is that my mindset, routines, perspective, and thought patterns have changed but I still have the same 9-5 (part time now) and built my coaching business. So, it's not always about leaving where you are to get to where you want to be.😘
I love my work now more than ever.
Working less means more than creative time management strategies, better boundaries, new perspectives, it's a new life design. It's about finding the joy in what you do every day that you come home energized rather than exhausted or burned out. It's where you have plenty of money and time to live the life you you really want, the freedom to set your own schedule - it's about believing you have the time to live the life you want.
It's Labor Day (a US holiday to honor and recognize the social and economic achievements of American workers). It's the wanning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere which means cooling down, getting back to school, so this holiday symbolizes the close of summer. Coming into a new season is also the perfect time to explore are you where you want to be professionally?
If you're not living a work less, make more lifestyle then you may be holding your dream life hostage which goes a little like this
You're not sure how to stop working hard.
You think you don't have enough time or money to create the life you really want.
You don't think you have enough money to create the life you really want.
What does working less look like to you?
What does having more look like to you?
It IS possible to live a work less, make more lifestyle.
