Who do you want to be?

Three times this week I have been confronted with a decision that was not easy to make.

In many ways these decisions were incredibly simple and could have been answered easily and quickly. Yet I paused before I made each one.


The questions were:

1. Do I have time to go to the gym?

2. Can I cancel that meeting and take my mum to the airport?

3. Can I come in late in order to go for an anniversary breakfast with my husband?

In the cold light of day and with a rationale brain the answer to all of these questions is YES! However under pressure and with seemingly no time to do anything, my answer to each of these is often a big fat NO.

Yet the "No" felt wrong with each of these questions so I paused.

I paused and asked myself one question.

The question I asked was "Who do I want be?"

Interestingly I did not anwer the question with "I want to be the best employee of 2015", instead here are the answers I gave myself:

1. I want to be someone who takes care of themselves (and ideally has a cute bum too :-)!)

2. I want to the best daughter I can be

3. I want to spend time with my husband and celebrate 16 happy years.

To me it came down to what make me whole and what makes me happy. Don't get me wrong when these decisions are made it is very rarely at the cost of my work. This somehow always finds a way to get done, its just that a reshuffle is needed and this can be an effort.

So are  you being who you want to be?

How do you know?

Is there another question that you use to help you keep on track?

Do tell..........