The practice that helps me fulfil my potential
I've done this every Friday for 4 years and it changed everything
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‘How do you find the time?’
A question I get asked quite often is ‘how do you find the time to fit everything in?’. Interestingly, this question regularly comes from mothers of young children and my immediate response is ‘how do you find the time to fit everything in? I don’t have kids!’
Either way, the amount of stuff that I get up to outside of my work (for it is my extra curricular activities they are referring to) – be that making wine, garden projects, growing produce, baking sourdough, learning Spanish, upcycling furniture, foraging, observing nature, my night time routine, daily journaling, extended solo traveling, learning how to handstand, doing courses and the rest – seems to quite often leave people perplexed.
I suppose it does sound like a fair amount of activity for someone who has a career and works for herself (I am a team of one, it’s just me). But there are few things I value more than my free time and having the space to learn what excites and ignites me; pursue those passions and interests; expand my skill set; exercise my creativity; continue learning and challenging myself; keep my mind, body and spirit healthy – and have fun whilst doing all of these things – is vitally important to me.
But I would say that whilst I have had this mindset for a while, I have only truly embodied it in the past four years or so. Because it was four years ago that I started a transformative weekly practice / habit / routine. It felt wild and radical at first; I wasn’t sure if I’d actually be able to do it or how it would affect other people. But it’s now the consistent peak of my week and integrating it into my life has, without question, changed it.
One of the key benefits I’ve experienced from doing this weekly practice is that I believe it is helping me to fulfil my fullest potential. We are capable of doing and being so much more but we often don’t give ourselves the breathing space to explore what that might look like or how we could approach it. I haven’t yet ‘arrived’. I will always be arriving and growing, but this weekly practice is largely responsible for helping me progress along this journey.
I haven’t met anyone else who does this. This is what I do.