Stop Looking for Balance and Live a Well-Rounded Life Instead
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Geomyra Pollard on How to Create a Well-Rounded Life and Business
Everyone wants that envied work-life balance. Entrepreneurs want a successful business but they also want their time and sanity back to spend time with their family and do things they love. In this episode, creative coach Geomyra Pollard is talking about why that work-life balance that you’re working so hard for is a myth and why you should be aiming for a well-rounded life instead. We talk about what that means, how you can achieve it, and some great tools to help you!
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Her Entrepreneur Journey
Geomyra is a former wedding and event planner in the DMV area. She was in the wedding industry for 12 years before she decided to switch gears and become a coach for creative entrepreneurs who are ready to level up in their business. She does this through her virtual firm, Coaching for Creatives, which she loves because she’s able to meet people right where they are and help them elevate and succeed without sacrificing their sanity or their time.
She is also a wife of 11 years, a mother to 2 sweet kiddos, and the host of the Well-Rounded Life podcast, where she shares tips and advice for living with grace and purpose, and living a more well-rounded life while following your passions.
What stands in the way of someone having work-life balance?
A lot of people feel like they’re working toward working-life balance, which doesn’t exist. Most people are trying to “balance” family with work, but you’re never going to put your family on the same level as work. Family is usually more important. Instead of focusing on finding “balance", focus instead on tending to what needs to be tended to in that moment and be mindful that you don’t have to do everything at the same time.
The biggest thing that gets in the way is mindset. We have to change the fact that we think everything has to be balanced and equal and that we have to have everything good all the time. A well-rounded life is a chosen life. You can’t be everywhere all the time, but you can nurture what needs to be handled until it’s good, and then move on to the next thing.
In order to achieve a well-rounded life, you have to fight the notion of trying to make everything equal.
What are some steps we can take to achieve a well-rounded life?
The first step is to just surrender. Take everything you’ve been doing and just acknowledge that it isn’t working. Go back to the drawing board and start trying to create systems and automate things in your business. You need to have a routine so you can figure out where you can get some help. Then outsource! Outsource the things that are time-sucks, meaning the things that you hate doing that are taking time away from the things you love most. Make a list of your time-sucks and start tracking your time, and then find someone who can take those things off your plate.
Are there any tools you recommend to help build a well-rounded life?
A one-sheet! It’s for people who have an ongoing to-do list, but it helps you focus on the one main thing that needs to get done in the week before moving on to another thing. You do it every week and it keeps you from feeling defeated that you didn’t get a hundred things done. Asana is also a great tool to actually keep your business organized and automated and keep clients on track.
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