It is not selfish to place yourself as the most important thing in your life. Were you not to do this, you will deny yourself and you will not find peace and balance in your life.

Of course, it’s not about being cocky, elbowing everyone aside just to be at the front, no, it’s about taking care of yourself, listening to what you need and what’s not good for you.

In that, you make yourself the most important thing. When you do this, you won’t go over your own limits, you maintain your energy, do things you enjoy doing and have energy to be there for others as well.

Only then can you truly be there for others, not because you should be or because the environment demands it of you.

No, because you consciously made that choice.

We usually have not learned to go with a flow in our lives. To give ourselves space to experiment in life and not walk the beaten path.

We have learned to think in cubicles and arrange our lives that way. But what is it like when you start thinking outside those boxes and looking at what you actually like?

Looking at myself, I like to have a lot of space and freedom in my life. Room for spontaneity and to do what I feel like doing. I usually have a good balance in the responsibilities I have in my life and the freedom I also crave.

Because of how I set up my business, I created this for myself. Not a 9 to 5 job, but sometimes working little and when I’m in a good flow, just working a little more.

Just because I feel like it then. My experience is that if I don’t feel good and then start working, I go against the grain and there are consequences.

Taking a moment to relax and rest and do what I recharge from helps me more than stubbornly slogging on.

Giving myself this space allows me to be there best for my children, to be a fun mom who has fun and patience for her children and can see what they need.

How does your life stand? Are you happy with how it looks? Or do you feel blocked and feel like you are in a harness?

Realize that you can step out of this and also arrange your life where you are happy and you can come to full bloom.

Scary? Yes, of course, change is tremendously scary, but when you start taking the steps you will see that it only becomes more fun.

Take the first step, no matter how small.