All of these reasons led me to reassess what I was doing – and as soon as the answer came to me, I relaxed. I would overthink everything I said and I was beginning to not even trust my own judgment on things, which felt scary and unsettling. After years of being online I had become hyper-vigilant about anything I posted. The other thing that was becoming unsustainable was my mental health. The way things were going wasn’t sustainable – I was paying my team and myself from savings and that couldn’t continue. Paying other freelancers to take on what I wasn’t doing during my leave and reduced hours didn’t only emotionally detach me from the work, but also drained my bank account. I love nerding out about sex and relationships but I found myself completely and utterly bored.Īt the same time, the business was struggling financially. I had even less time to dedicate to input mode, which meant I was scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas and I was extremely lacking in inspiration or motivation. The content was suffering and I was running out of steam. Initially I loved coming back to work part-time, but all the cracks from before were showing and getting harder to ignore. To prepare for my new life as a working mum I also expanded my team to help take some things off my plate. It was the longest I hadn’t posted anything on my YouTube channel in more than 10 years. There is no blueprint for freelancers, creators or small business owners for what to do about parental leave, so I made up what I thought would be the best balance between me getting “time off” to look after the baby and not letting the business suffer too much. This is where you get to learn, explore, refill the well, take care of yourself and nourish your curiosity. And the problem with being in constant output mode is that you never get a chance to be in “input mode”. The pressure to always be posting is real. The fear is that if you dare take a break, people will forget about you, the algorithm gods will punish you and your income and career will inevitably suffer. Creating regular YouTube videos, podcast episodes and social media content puts you on this hamster wheel where you always have to be creating. You follow the line according to the numbers of the bond you feel in that special place.Īfter you are done, only seeing this reflection towards yourself is already starting to have an subconscious impact and seeing how you are actually thinking about certain bonds and situations.For the past decade I had been in what I call constant “output mode”. To start off you see a nice wheel like figure with the numbers 1 to 10 indicated, 1 is not so good and 10 is super duper perfect. Where you have better vision of what you want to change or want to see changed. This is used by many Life Coaches together with an more spread out introduction, to help you find things you want to improve on.Įven if you have trouble of knowing what to improve you can always draw or make a second one, that is the future version. Which can include, family, friends and what it helps indicating how your bonds are and if you think yourself that they are good or not. The Wheel of Life may sound a bit dramatic, but what is represents is different important aspects of your life. So i will make a series of blogs around it and I hope that it will surely help you all out in your own road of life as well!Īnd to start off, we first start with the classic Know Thyself, but in another sense and way broader then ever before! Well that my focus shift to things everyone can use in their daily lives and to also help them improve the quality of their life! From now on, I will write more often again, but focused on Life Coaching and certain exercises + works of my own with it.

Wheel of life printable