Starting 2025 Off Nice and Slow...

Late last year I had to stop and take stock of some health stuff. For someone who's only too glad to use every podium available to talk Mental health and 'self-care' and prioritising ourselves, I've been like most of you... which is to say only paying lip service!

I hope that changes for you even as I'm hoping to change for myself.

I had to stop, take stock, get some stuff done and then wait. To rest and recover! Can you imagine. What a gift in this always-on world to be mandated time to R&R. So in that period, while I was thinking about life, reliving all kinds of flashbacks, I miraculously discovered this sort of grace. There's an art to being gentle with yourself, isn't there? To forgiving yourself for silly mistakes and stupid wrong turns. For investing so much of yourself in the wrong people, in the wrong company. For under-valuing yourself so often, and not valuing the importance of your own time. I could go on...

Time and health are the only things that really matter, don't you find? You only notice when either is in short supply.

Ok, time, health, money and love. That's what it comes down to, at the end of the day.