Are You Making Time To…

… the answer is, “bake”. Are you making time to bake?

Many years ago, when I first started my coaching business, I stood in my kitchen making jelly. And in that moment, I realized that one of my definitions of success was, “Being able to make jelly in the middle of my kitchen in the middle of the week when everyone else is at work.”

So it is also, for me, with baking. As a child, I would watch my Mum bake every weekend. I’d follow her every move and jump at the chance to help. She’d explain why she was doing what she did and how it made a difference to the cake. Then when I was 11, I made my very first cake, under the watchful eye of my cousin who was also 11 at the time. And I’ve loved baking and making all kinds of desserts and puddings ever since.

With it being Christmas, I’ve made a few desserts over the last few days. And I was reminded of how much I love to do this kind of thing. It feels wonderful… I feel wonderful, life feels wonderful… and in that moment I remember with more depth what freedom feels like and it reconnects me to one of the main ‘whys’ of my business… because, like the jelly for me, that is also the feeling of success.

So the point that I’m wanting you to get here is that when we are in business for ourselves, we often forget to still do the things that we love. It may possibly be that you’ve even forgotten what that thing is that you love. But doing the thing that you love is one of the most important things you can do for your business, because it gets you back to your ‘why’, it gets you back to remembering what success in this game of life feels like. And it’s that feeling of success that pulls you forward and pulls you through when times feel hard.

And when that same feeling permeates the very work that you do, then you know… you’re firmly on the spiral of success.

Tagged as: personal freedom, success