Balance & Freedom

By admin • July 5, 2007

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Today was a good day. For you guys in the states it was 4th of July, Independence Day. We celebrated Canada Day at the beginning of the week. Since I am an American living in Canada and married to a Canadian, I celebrate both. So cheers to everyone and celebrate your independence. We have such freedoms to celebrate too.

Brad and I get to work from home, go for long walks (he wore me out with a two hour powerwalk on the bike path this morning), enjoy the summer day, take our kids out for ice cream and fly kites.

My business partner said, “Gotta have days like those, good for the spirit!”

I agree. Since we work from home, we don’t leave work at work. It is around us 24/7 and we often have a hard time tearing ourselves away from us until we are burnt out. Just like everything else, we need balance between business and the freedoms that we enjoy in our lives.

We often take for granted such freedoms that we sometimes ignore them, think we have to be lucky to enjoy working from home or learning a new skill. Because we do in fact have those freedoms, they aren’t luck, they are in fact choices. So many still don’t get that. We aren’t forced into anything, we have the choice to take this path or that one. Brad and I chose the road less traveled and it’s definitely not always the easy road, but it’s a path full of challenges, excitement, energy and freedom to choose. Every day, we wake up and are grateful for the choices we have and look forward to what challenges lie ahead.