Learn to balance your needs and desires with your family’s desires.
Everyone born on this Earth is entitled to be happy by fulfilling their heart’s desires and dreams.
Accept that people have their own journeys and lessons to learn in life.
The key is learning how to balance things so that your loved ones are not suffering.
It is not enough to justify an imbalance on the grounds that you are making money.
While I was in the corporate world, I used to spend a lot of time in the office.
I knew deep down that I should be spending more quality connected time with my family.
However, my mind’s justification was that I was the main breadwinner and needed to put in the work to allow the family to live in a nice community.
However, in time and after I left my job, I realised:
What is the point of spending so much time in the office when your loved ones are suffering, feeling lonely, and wanting a deeper connection with you?
What is the point when you don’t know the strengths, weaknesses and interests of your own children?
What is the point when you are not there when your child needs you to be there, when they are going through issues at school? When they need you to help them make sense of their own experiences in the world?
I realised that it was not worth the extra cash in the bank.
At that point, I made the decision that I would not go back to a job that compromised on that precious time when the kids come home from school.
Balance your dreams and desires with your family’s dreams and desires.
Only then will you find true happiness.