In pursuit of my IDEAL LIFE

Hello!

I would like to introduce myself – I am Tina Stewart. I am wife to Paul, mother to Matthew, step-mother to Caitlin and Alexander, daughter to Ngaire and Donald, sister to Jeremy, behind the scenes accounts and admin person for Compassion Coaching, friend to many and recently I was made redundant from my Oil and Gas position. Beyond all these positions I play in life, I am a woman in pursuit of my IDEAL LIFE.

What is an IDEAL LIFE? It is the life that you carefully select and create that is the ideal fit for you and only you. It is about getting crystal clear on what is important to you, what fulfills you, what gets you excited to wake up each morning and what brings you the greatest satisfaction in life.

My IDEAL LIFE is creating the financial platform to support my family and me to be able to spend as much time as possible with my little son before he gets to school age. It is working part time for the moment to allow for work and life to balance out. It is having a creative outlet to explore and play with my creative talents (which have been hidden for way too long). It is working numbers and creating strategies to grow our business. It is finding ways to support people to grow themselves. It is creating the space to have Tina time in order to keep on developing new skills and new dreams and having time to stop and be.

So with all this in mind, finding out that I was being made redundant from my Oil and Gas role the other week – well instead of being devastated, feeling like it was the end of the world, feeling like I was somehow to blame, or that I wasn’t good enough, or worthy enough to stay. I feel like my redundancy was a beautiful GIFT. It is a gift of new opportunities, it is a gift of giving me some financial breathing space to develop that financial platform in which to spend more time with my family. It is the gift and nudge to push me into working for our business in a greater capacity.

As such, in pursuit of my IDEAL LIFE I wish to celebrate my new role within Compassion Coaching as I will now also be leading our social media, online courses, event management aspects and will be looking at doing one-on-one coaching too.

I am excited about this new path and direction and the ability to pursue my IDEAL LIFE.

What does your IDEAL LIFE look like, I would love to know, share in the comments below.

BTW: The picture above is one I took immediately after I was made redundant as Matthew and I went for a walk along the water and played at the playground - not a bad way to start a redundancy and to pursue my ideal life, eh...?