Hello, good evening. Welcome everybody. I'm just gonna wait for a few minutes while I see people start to come in.

I hope you're well this evening. So I can see that there's a couple of you arriving so far. A few more.

Hello, good evening. So, yeah, here we are. Our second module, the Life Balance Builder session.

So, ah, here we go. More and more of you coming in. That's great.

Hello, everybody. Welcome. Good evening.

So, I hope you're all, surviving Storm Kiara, or whichever storm this one's called. I don't know about it, how it's been for you guys. It's been a bit blowy down in Devon.

We've had 3 days solid of, very gusty winds and things flying around and trees going everywhere and stuff. So I hope all of you guys have managed to stay safe. And, there is something really cosy though, I think, about being snuggled up in bed, listening to it being all, all wild outside.

So, yes, storms, seem, seeming to be abating now. That's grand. So I think most people are now within the webinar.

That's grand. OK dokey. So.

Let's get going this evening. Welcome. I hope you've had a good few days since the marathon Q&A session on Thursday.

So we, we are a life balance builder module 2. So we're still in our research section. As we said, the 1st 3 modules are about those fact-finding, data gathering parts and gathering data in those three directions.

So we started out last time, beginning by looking internally and with the life balance builder, we're starting to then look externally to the life around you as well. And looking for that second, the second facets of the, the jigsaw pieces of, of that particular part. So for those of you that have been giving the exercises a try, I hope you've all been having fun with your life balance wheels.

But as we did at the start of, the last module as well, I just want to do another 2 or 3 minute grounding, breathing, mindfulness exercise just to sort of bring us back down to earth after a busy day and set the tone for this evening. So again, if you're listening to this on the replay and you're driving at the moment, please don't listen to this while you're driving, just hop me on 2 or 3 minutes, and you should be the other side of it. However, if you're not driving at the moment, and you're sat at your desk, then the same as last time, pop your pen down, just start to get a bit comfy on your chair and cross your legs if your legs are crossed.

And then if it feels appropriate to do so, you can just gently let your eyes close. Or if you prefer, you can keep your eyes open. But just have them gazing, sort of unfocused on the spot a few yards in front of you.

And just settle into whatever you're sitting on. And just start to focus on your breathing. So maybe taking a couple of really nice, deep, calming breaths.

And as you breathe, breathing in, calm. I'm just starting to breathe out any tension, letting go of the stresses of the day, breathing away anything that's no longer serving you from the day. And taking nice, slow, steady breaths.

And as you breathe in, try and push your stomach out as you breathe in, that pulls your diaphragm down, gives you a really nice deep breath. And then your stomach can gently return as you breathe out. So as you sit there and then once you've taken a few calm breaths, you can then just let your breathing return back to normal again.

And let it settle into whatever rhythm it wants to. Now I want you to start visualising in front of you a beautiful door. But this door can be made of whatever just comes to your mind, so perhaps it's a beautiful old wooden door.

Or maybe it's a gorgeous gilded golden door. Just whatever feels most pleasing. And as you put your hand on the doorknob of this door and start to push it open very slightly, a beautiful gold white light starts to come through the door.

And this light is really safe. It's warm, it's positive. And as you open that door, you can open the door slightly more.

There is more light there and you can step through and feel yourself becoming enveloped in that beautiful golden white light. It makes you feel really glowing and it feels amazing. As you step through surrounded by the white light.

The light then begins to clear. And as that light clears, you notice that you are in a beautiful place in nature. And maybe this is somewhere that you know.

Perhaps it's a beautiful beach that you've been to on holiday. Maybe it's a beautiful grassy hill with stunning views over the land. Or perhaps it's a really nice siduous old forest.

Or maybe it's a local spot, somewhere that you go dog walking. Wherever this beautiful place in nature is, it feels really relaxing. To find somewhere now within this place to sit down and just breathe.

And as you sit in your special place and breathe, you start to get a sense of connection to everything around you. You can feel your connection to the earth. Your connection to the place you're in.

And your connection to the people that matter to you most. It feels safe, special, and relaxing. Now I want you to set an intention that for this evening's session, you will hear the messages that you most need to hear right now.

Trust that your subconscious will guide you to whatever is most useful to you at this time without stress or strain. So you can just relax and enjoy the session. So now I want you to imagine slowly standing up within your place in nature.

All that intention into yourself. And then imagine turning slowly back towards your door. And walking back through the door, that is the door that is then into the room where you are.

And bring back with you that intention and all those positive, secure and safe feelings back through the door and into the room where you are. And then you can start to gently bring yourself back into your body and your physical awareness. Maybe give your fingers a bit of a wiggle.

Maybe you should slightly move your feet or your legs. If you had your eyes closed, you can slowly open them. And maybe just have a little bit of a stretch.

And just bring yourself back into the room again. So again, just short little 2 or 3 minutes of visualisation or breathing or mindfulness. It can just be a really nice little transition at the end of the day, particularly if you've got quite a bloody head.

So, some of you may be doing this anyway, I know a few if you're using the carac or Headspace or that type of thing. So it's something that you can do in your own head as well, as being guided. So hopefully that's not put you all to sleep.

And now that we've done that, we're all feeling a bit more grounded and calm, then we can crack on and get launched into the life balance builder. So with this module, thinking back to the 10 Commandments of veterinary career mastery, tonight we're gonna be tackling commandment 2 and 3. So the first one, if you remember, was know yourself.

Commandment number 2 is know your desires. So to start to get to know what it is that you want. And commandment number 3 is then designing the life you want based around the things that you that you desire in your life.

So initially, when we started, we started with that process of getting to know yourself. That's why we were beginning with the values exercise. And actually, a part of getting to know yourself is tapping back into what you want.

Not necessarily at this stage, the very specific black and white finished product of, of what it is that you want, but, but certainly starting to get an idea of the elements of what you would like to be experiencing more of within your life and within your lifestyle. So what emotions you want to be feeling, what experience you want to be having, any of those things that you don't want to be experiencing. So that is also part of getting to know yourself.

But often I find that we have stopped giving ourselves permission to want. We either, there are things we might want, but then we feel that due to financial, a financial situation or professional obligations or personal restrictions that we, we can't have those things. So rather than wanting them and then feeling the discomfort of believing we can't have it, it's easier to then actually just train ourselves to to not want.

So we start to tolerate. Things, and sort of put up with things. And we even get to a stage where sometimes we're enduring something that we really don't want, as well.

And there's an affirmation that I think many of us grew up with. So, do you remember the I want never gets? Hands up if, if that's, that's an affirmation that you heard as a child.

So, when we think of affirmations, we tend to just think of positive affirmations that you write and then stick on Post-it notes and look at every day. And if, if something that you're affirming is positive, that's brilliant, it's gonna be really helpful. But actually negative stuff, it can be an affirmation as well.

So things like I want never gets, that's a really powerful affirmation that you don't want to become true for you. And it's something that, as a parent, for example, I've been training myself not to say that to either. Because I don't want that to become true to her, so I'm trying to find other creative ways of stopping her from going, I want this, I want that.

And, just teaching her to say I would like, without kind of saying, I want, never gets. But she comes home from school saying that, so I know that it's still a thing and it, it's still an affirmation that's out there. One good trick that you can use actually from a neuro neurolinguistic programming perspective is sometimes shifting the word want from the word, away from the word want to more towards desire.

So sometimes when we use the word want. There can be an element of lack about it. So it feels like, well, I want this thing that's over there that I don't have, and I'm over here and I don't have this thing that I want.

So the element of wanting can feel like scarcity, and it can kind of highlight that gap of, of where we're not actually where we want to be. Whereas sometimes shifting using to more to use the word desire can just have a bit more of a sense of abundance about it. So you'll hear me use both fairly interchangeably tonight, but sometimes that can be a useful shift.

So whether you think in terms of wants or desires, what I would like you to start doing from this moment forward is to go back to giving yourself permission to want, to desire, to dream, to create, to aspire to what could be possible, even if you don't know how you would get there, don't even know if it is possible, and can't see all the steps to it at that point. Because we're incredibly creative beings as, as humans. But particularly, you know, another part of the vet identity takeover, for those of you that are vets and nurses, is that I think we end up having, kind of having our creativity squashed out of us a little bit.

So, I think, you know, if you spend any time around children, they're innately creative. But then for us as vets and nurses, we knew we had to do science-based GCSEs and A Levels, and when then when you go onto a science-based course, the way that we're taught to solve problems is much more data and evidence-based, logic, ration, critical analysis, factual, all that kind of stuff. And actually, as a vet in a consult room, making a diagnosis and treating a pet, that's kind of what you want.

You don't necessarily want your vets in general situations, going really blue sky thinking and getting super creative, rather than sticking to the data and evidence proven way to treat that particular condition. So useful in, in the, the job context, but actually, it's not always that useful when it comes to reconnecting with your life, your career in the direction that you want. So we start to get this belief that we're not creative anymore.

Quite often when I speak to vets and nurses, they'll, they'll say I'm not, I'm not creative. And actually, we are inherently, as human beings, we're creative as a species. There are just so people that use their creativity and those who haven't used it for a while so that it's atrophied a little bit.

But it will absolutely still be there. So again, part of what I want you to do with this module is start to recreate, re tap into that creative part of yourself as well. And in order to do that, we need courage and we need self-belief, and we need a way to start catching and releasing any limiting beliefs that crop up that are keeping you indecisive, unsure, or stuck.

And that might be why at times you can be finding these exercises quite hard at this moment, because often we need the bits that are coming next in terms of the, self-worth piece in terms of resilience and mindset work. So if you are finding these exercises challenging again, you can circle back to them when we've done some of the later modules and, and it will probably all start to come together even more because they are quite interlinked. So with our training then, we often are taught not to be too creative, you know, stick to the rules, stay within your box, and then our upbringing obviously sometimes teaches us to not be wanting too much.

Don't want too much, don't ask for too much. Be grateful for what you have, don't have too many desires. And those two things together and then contribute to us staying small and perhaps feeling a bit stuck and tolerating things that really aren't working for us.

Having said that, your desires don't all have to be big, bold, dramatic, making a huge impact and really expansive. They can be, and that's great. But also, they can, you can actually have a desire for, for less.

Certainly, I know that one of the first, when I started doing this work, one of the first desires that I. Unearthed and had to kind of take, get, get a bit of used to owning, was the fact that actually, I really wanted to simplify things a little bit. I remember at the time I was, feeling really, just really overwhelmed with how much stuff I had going on in my life.

And, this is something I, I hear a lot with my vet, veterinary clients. And I sometimes call it the curse of competency, coupled with people pleasing. So aspects of that is we're often, you know, we're in an intelligent, high achieving bunch.

We are competent at a wide range of things. And then if, if that's coupled with not wanting to let people down and there's, and a, and a hint of people pleasing, we can end up just taking on too much and becoming really. Overcommitted, or feeling like it's not possible to say no to things.

And certainly that's where I was when I started doing this work. And I was, but I was, and I was feeling overwhelmed with that. But I was looking at other people within the vet profession, and thinking, oh, well, jeez, it looks like Superwoman because she's doing this, this, this, this, this, and seems to be coping fine.

So why can't I cope with doing all of those things as, as well? And actually, most of us have overcomplicated our lives and actually we need to simplify things a little bit. So, like I say, desires can be big and expansive, but they can also be in any direction and sometimes that could be for reducing and simplifying things.

So with this module, I wanted to start kind of like we do with managing our cases by taking some baseline data, if you will, on your current level of life balance and then seeing how much that matches what you want or, or, you know, what, what you would like to create. So I just want to share a couple of slides on this topic. Let me just see if I can pull them up.

OK, so share PowerPoint. It should come up here. Oops, now what's it today.

OK. So hopefully you can see my slide, Rich, give me a shout if you can't, for any reason, but hopefully you can see my slide on there. So with this, looking at the life balance scores, if you remember from the Wellcome questionnaire, there was a question on that one of the scores on there was how much does your, hang on a second, let me see.

Let me just have a look in the chat box. All looks good. Thanks, Rich, that's great.

OK, so what are the scores, there was a score for happiness, how much you're enjoying your role or career, and then this one, how much do you feel out of 10 is your life in balance in all of your different roles? So here we can see the scores out of 10, and up here is the number of people who have that score. So we have 44 people, for example, saying their life balance was only a 4 out of 10.

We had one person whose score was a 2 out of 10. We had 9 people, for example, who were saying their scores a 6 out of 10. So we can see on here that we've got a little bit of a range, but what was interesting for me out of the, I think there's one more questionnaire I have to add in here.

So this is 25 questionnaires worth of data. There are 3 quarters of you, so 75% are saying that their life balance score is currently only a 6 out of 10 or below, and actually 40% of you, so getting up towards half, that score is 5 out of 10 or below. With only 25% of the group saying, actually, my life balance is sitting at about a 7 out of 10 at the moment, which is, I think the minimum of where ideally we'd like to get it to.

So, stretching for 10, it really has a life balance that's in 10, nice goal, but it's certainly a 78 or 9 would be nice, and it is really achievable. So we can see that even within the group, that this is, this is something that we need to address and be thinking about, and it's why there's a whole module on it. A couple of other things to share here.

I did some research work, 18 months ago now, maybe, a year or so, where I was looking at 3 different groups. So within my research study, I had, vets who were dissatisfied and not really sure about vetting anymore. I had vets who were generally quite happy vetting, and I had people that were already diversified and doing something different.

And I'm just sharing with you here some of the data from the generally happy vets. And one of the questions was, what are the biggest challenges that you're facing at the moment? And when I added that all up for, it came out slightly differently in terms of what the biggest challenges were for those three groups.

But within the happy vets, so generally happy vetting, by far and away the biggest challenge was getting the work-life balance right. Interestingly, the second thing was then self-doubt, anxiety, fear of failure. So again, that's why all the mindset stuff is, is in the course as well.

But yeah, work-life balance came out as the biggest thing that people that are generally happy betting are still working on trying to get that piece right. Interestingly, when you ask the reverse question to that group, so what's the best thing about your role, what came out there is almost like the reverse of that. So the people that were happiest with their vet roles had chosen roles or created or got themselves into a role within the profession that was allowing them flexibility, freedom, independence or autonomy, or some combination of those.

So they were able to live life the way they wanted to and have a certain amount of freedom and flexibility within their vet role. So it's kind of like the, the reverse of the same thing. Also, the, the, the third thing on the, the list of, oh, actually, I'm thinking back of challenges.

So, with the biggest challenges, the third thing was stuff going on outside of work. So, again, if you've got anything going on outside. Of work, maybe elderly parents that are sick, or maybe your partner you, you had to move, you're in the middle of a house, maybe because your partner's changed their job, or you've just had a new baby or, you know, external life circumstances that take up time and energy can be a challenge when you're vetting as well.

And again, that links in with the work-life balance. So I think that's, I think the next ones are finances, aren't they? So yeah, so I'm gonna hop out of these for now, and just get back into, so hopefully that's back to me just doing on video again.

I'll come out of there. Right, I'm just gonna put the slides down here for a second and get back into this. So with the life balance exercise.

I was asking you to consider all of the roles that you currently have and then start evaluating them as they are now. So the first question that I want to ask those of you that are on the call tonight, so we've got 18 people on the call tonight, is, for those of you that have tackled the exercise so far, when you were working out your roles, and I asked you to kind of get that to a maximum of 8, and no more than 8. Who found they had way more than 8, so lots of, of different hats they were wearing, and they were sort of having to consolidate a lot of those down to get it into 8.

And conversely, who had found it quite easy to, to think of 7 or 8, or maybe even were trying to kind of pad them out or struggling perhaps to fill the full 8. So who have you had more and were consolidating and who had about that number or were, were trying to sort of pad them out. So let me know, hit me up in the chat box.

So Anna had more and consolidated, Rebecca way more. Yeah, Nicky, more than 8, Rosie consolidating. Louise got to 8 and stopped there.

Sensible, sensible, Louise, yeah. OK, so you weren't trying to pad them out. 8 seems to be about right for you, Katherine.

Yeah, so that did seem to, to fit well. Ros, about the right number, consolidated 10-ish to 8. Yeah, that's, that's fairly normal.

Sophie was the other way around, struggled to fill the 8 roles, had to extend sort of using, you know, yeah, thinking about where you want to go with your life and roles that you want to add in. Absolutely, Sophie, and that can be, so Allie, you were about right. Jackie was consolidating into quite a few groups.

Aileen 8 felt about right. OK, so we've got a, a, a mix. And Sophie, that's really, that's, that I do quite commonly, I see both ends of the scale here, and where you're kind of, where, where people are moving to fill them out.

Then it's often, it it can often be a symptom of the vet identity takeover that that, but that so much has had to go into that role, that it's just kind of not left much time and energy for, for developing. The other roles equally for those of you that were squishing them down into 8, it may well be, again that that's, there's some simplification needed or some boundary testing, to go in place. OK.

And the consolidation, it, it can be a bit tricky, can't it, in terms of thinking about it forces you to make a choice. So if you're gonna consolidate, you have to think about it in a new way, and it, it, it links back into the value stuff we're doing a couple of weeks ago. So where there's a, a, a conflict of where to stuff to consolidate them all into, it's or or where perhaps what came out in the values, if you've made slightly different choices with your life balance wheel, it can be interesting to look at that and then see which feels most like you of the, the values versus the life balance wheel and which maybe feels more like it should.

So for example, with finances, money, you wanna, you know, that type of thing. You'll see on the example in the notes, what my car and I had that as one whole segment one year because we kind of had to because we really needed to, to financially survive and make some money to own. In other years, money has been just linked in with house running.

And general lifeman, as someone called it to me the other day, but sometimes money could be linked in within your income generating role. And again, so as you're consolidating, where you've ended up putting stuff is gonna reveal to you another layer of, of, of your values and things as well. Also, another example of what I see on here is, sometimes people will put a role like dog owner or horse owner or cat owner or whatever, because it's important to them.

But they've had to battle a certain amount of guilt to do that because maybe by putting that role as one whole segment on its own, that might mean that say friends and family have had to squish in together. To create that. So, again, actually having to do this and consolidate and bring yourself to having those 87 or 8 levels of focus is all part of getting to know yourself.

And there are no rights or wrongs with this. There's no, no one's gonna look over your shoulder, no one's gonna examine your life balance wheel and say, well, you've chosen the wrong roles for yourself. And if, if you're not sure about them, again you can try living with them and running with that for 6 months or so and then seeing how it feels and then tweaking them if if they don't feel quite right.

Sometimes we need to actually have a guess at something and then experience it to to know. So it's also really good for weeding out limiting beliefs and blockages as well. So for example, if you did do give your pet or something, something for yourself a role, but then felt slightly guilty about it, you can start to get curious of why do I feel guilty about that?

What am I saying to myself? What's the narrative? Why do, what am I saying to about where I've consolidated and what that means about me as a person?

Is there anything negative or critical that I need to pay attention to and get self-compassionate about and really be OK with only who I am and how I feel? So just interestingly, did, did, of you, those of you that have been consolidating, did you find it, has anyone found it that in that position of dedicating a role to something but perhaps feeling a little bit guilty about it. so yeah, it was just interesting to see if anyone did experience that.

At all, or mostly have they, the roles felt OK. . I might have to let my cat about in out in a minute, he's sort of circling around my chair.

No one's saying much at the moment, so maybe that hasn't been an issue. The other thing I'm curious, to hear from you with is the next section of that was then scoring the roles. So, giving it, giving each role, sort of putting a slider on it really out of 10 of how, where you feel that role is at the moment compared to where you'd like to get it to.

I'd be curious to know what reaction you had once you'd done that. So who, once they've done that, looked at their life balance well and went, actually, that's what happened. I thought it was.

I'm, I'm quite pleased with that. I'm OK with it. And who looked at and perhaps didn't feel so great or got a bit of a shock.

So what was, just give me a little bit of feedback, what was your reaction to doing the scoring part? While you're scribbling that, I'm literally just gonna shove the cat out the door because he's gonna jump on the top of my, so 2 seconds. Oh, I didn't think you have.

Right The joys of working from home, OK, good, Louise. Somemos had a low score and I felt bad, yeah. So sometimes we can Nicky, let's see, not too happy with my scoring, but not too surprised by it either, so it kind of reflected what you thought, how you thought it might come out, Nikki.

Rebecca's struggle with scoring has kept going back to time dedicated rather than results being achieved. Ah, OK, interesting. So you were almost wondering how to score it.

Do I score it for how much time it's taking me, or do I score it from the results I'm achieving? And really I would say. It's the outcome.

So we're wanting to think of this in terms of what's the outcome you would like within that role within the next 12 months or so. . So that was you, Rebecca, Rich, I gave myself a role that was purely focused on me to give myself some dedicated time, which meant time away from the family, so I had an element of guilt that I wasn't dedicating every minute to the family.

Yes, Rich, that's, that's the, . This sort of thing that, you know, that I come across quite, commonly. And actually, it's part of that, knowing that when you do dedicate some time to yourself and at that time helped you to empty your own container, and recharge a bit and also come out from under the identity roles of your job role and your role as as as parent.

Then the, you can then go back into your other roles feeling replenished. So it's about knowing that seeing that as self-care rather than selfish, but it's really, really common when people give themselves a role to themselves to go, can I do that? Is that, is that OK?

Does it make me a bad person? Sophie, I realised I need to be better at keeping touch with family and friends. OK, so it gave you some impetus to see where a little bit more focused in a different area that is important to you might be needed.

Rosevelt, not too bad. That role a bit lower than I would like, but the recreational roles had higher and fairly balanced score. OK, so again, you can see where that where some focus might be needed if you want to, but equally, you can celebrate the fact that your self-care roles, your recreation roles, were quite balanced.

Jenny found it difficult to score some roles, felt OKish with the balance. So again, similar to Rebecca's, sometimes it can be a bit tricky. Deciding on your own criteria for how you're gonna score it.

And again, the scoring really, it's not about self judgement. It's not about being critical. It's literally thinking, is that area of my life, how I want it to be at the moment?

And, and sometimes, well, we'll come to whether, whether the aim is for a round reel wheel in a minute. . Ross felt a little bit like self-care was a waste of a roll size, although I know that's what not right.

Ross, we need to do some work. Yeah, so, it's, it, it's, there's a reason why within that, the, the sort of instructions for that exercise, and when I'm working on this with my private 1 to 1 guides, they can't not, I don't give them the option of not having that role because when you, when we need to, we need to care for ourselves, we need to care for the physical vessel that we're in. Because we, the, our energy, our mood, or all sorts of stuff are coming from what we're putting into our bodies and the environment that our bodies are are in, the people that we're surrounding ourselves with, and then working on things like your mindset, or this is part of your self-care really in terms of personal development.

And every, every bit that you invest in your self-care, then, then fills up your container or, or empties it if it needs emptying, and it means you've got more to offer other people. So it's one of the roles that actually tends to positively impact every other role as well. So, yeah, it's, it's a good role to have on there.

Well, scoring low across the board than I was, would like, . But not surprising is reevaluating a lot at the moment, yeah, so you already know that you're not quite sat by the sounds of it in the right sort of there's things you're wanting to change, . loads of detail and every other, yeah, so you've not put any detail in the self-care, so that just might be a, a newish role to be thinking about, as well.

Because some of the low scoring areas, I felt, so some of the low scoring areas I felt to improve the score would involve. oh, I don't know what's going on with cats it's going a little bit weird. Oh, press send too soon.

Oh, there we go, Rebecca. That's why I was getting confused, wanted to say that to improve the score felt like quite a burden obligation draining. Yeah, absolutely, and, and part of this is about.

Choice, so as well, we're gonna come on to that. So, so, actually, again, it's, so we'll, we'll cover that bit at the moment. Let me just bring that up.

Thank you guys, it's really, really good. It's really great, really great to hear your experiences in here. So the aim with this exercise is not to have a completely round balanced wheel.

I think if any of you had come back and said, Oh, I'm an 8 out of 10 in all my roles, I'd have been like, Hm, there's a wee bit of denial going on there because like nobody has ever has, like, is, is ever achieving absolutely everything they want in every facet of their life. And actually, this links back into to the question that Dodi asked on Thursday's Q&A, which is about stretch and challenge and growth. So you kind of want a couple of areas on there that are only a 2 or a 3 out of 10, because those are your areas that That are either new in.

So maybe they have a low score because you've just decided, well, I used to really want to be a photographer, and I'm, I've not done that, so I wanna sit that well on, but at the minute, it's a 2 out of 10 because I've not even really got going with it. Or maybe it's a 3 out of 10 because you've, you've, it's lapsed, and actually, you want to move that cider, but it could also be that, you know, if if looking at it feels like a, a, a particular school, Rebecca feels like quite a burden. Or obligation or training, it will be looking to see why, why is that the case?

Does, does, do, do I really want to increase the score in that role? Is that a should? Is it an obligation?

Why does it, you know, getting curious about why does that feel like a burden? Would it not feel like a burden if there weren't so many other areas or you haven't had to consolidate in there? So it's getting curious about, is that just because I'm tired and exhausted and overwhelmed if I wasn't, I would enjoy increasing that role, or What is it that, actually, I'm not sure really whether I do want to move the slider on that, and actually, I'll be OK with leaving it where it is.

So it's just, again, it's useful for self-reflection, but the aim is not to have a perfectly balanced wheel. So your wheel will always look wonky. It just lets you then get more proactive and, make decisions about where, which sliders you want to move.

And where you, how far you want to move them up to. So if a role is sitting at a 3 at the moment, it may be that you think, actually, I would like to get that up to a 5 over the next 6 months. Some years on mine, I look at something that's a 4 or a 3, and like, like our house renovations and stuff, and what with having a, a, a, a toddler and then launching two new businesses, I'm quite happy for that to sit at the 4 because I know that there isn't the investment, there's not the time.

It's that role isn't how I want it, but it's not gonna be my focus at the moment, so I'm quite happy with that sitting up. But that's the way to kind of be thinking about this, as well. So, what's important really is just to get that bird's eye view of where your previous choices have led and pathway have led you to right now, and then tune in, how do you feel about that?

How do you feel about that? And which bits feel good, which bits feel less than good, and why? Because this then let me just have a swig of my drink.

This then leads into the 3rd commandment, which is to design the life you want and there's sort of a 3-step process with this. So the first step, and I've touched on it very slightly already, is owning your choices. So it may well be that you're so commonly, quite commonly what I see when I'm working with people is maybe their vet or their career role is an 8, and their parenting role is an 8, but lots of the other roles are quite lower.

And those two roles are both 8 out of 10 because they've just taken over and they're they're absorbing all of that, . So, or there's sometimes maybe it can be quite, sometimes it can be quite hard to place a score on a role, because if you've been doing a lot of consolidating, it's difficult to look at that role and go, well, there's, there's 8 different sub-ros within that, and some of them are OK and some of them are not, not. So again, that would be an indication of, of a need to think about simplification and think about how much you've said yes to, and think about what choices you could make that might relieve that because Sometimes in that situation, people will say, I don't have a choice.

I don't have a choice, that that's just the roles that I have, that's how busy it is, and there's nothing I can do that I don't have a choice. And what they really mean is, I could stop doing that or that, but I'd be letting people down. Or I could stop doing that, but they can't manage without me or.

I could stop doing that, but what will people think? And does not that not make me lazy or self-indulgent, or, or so we, what it means when we say sometimes we literally have, don't have a choice. When you have children, you can't not have your children anymore, and all those sorts of, those sorts of things.

So there are, there is some stuff which is definitely, and it's not a choice you would want to not have. But there are things where sometimes we say, I don't have a choice when actually we do we need to own the choice that we're currently making, so. In some of those situations where the emotional pain or discomfort of saying not doing it anymore feels really pokey at the moment, then that just means that currently we're choosing overwhelm and over commitment over the emotional discomfort it would feel or take or the courage it would take to to stop doing that and to do the work that would that might allow you to move in that direction.

The reason that it's important to own that as a choice is not about self-criticism, it's not about judgement, it's about empowerment because sometimes you might say actually if the option is. If changing it looks like that and it means those things, actually, I that would feel worse, so I don't want to choose that. So I'm going to choose to stay where I am and not change it, but that's my proactive choice and we don't feel so helpless.

Or quite often when we realise and start owning the choice, then we can start to look for ways that we can, we open ourselves up to making different choices that can over time start to shift and change. Our outcome for us. And usually the things that stop us doing that is fear and, and, and needing to build up the courage and needing to do the mindset work that we've got coming in the next 4th or 5th modules, to make it feel less scary to give ourselves permission to validate those, those choices, as well.

The other thing that can help if you feel like I don't have a choice is it, it can then go back to looking at your scores and what I think might be quite helpful for me to send everyone back their welcome questionnaire so that you can see I've had to work out a way of getting the system to to do that at the time, but you've seen my level of it's not great. But I might just email them all back to you. You can look at your scores, look at how the happiness and career enjoyment balance in your life purpose scores, and see where they are.

And again, looking at that sometimes can remind you of actually, I do, I want to get over the, the fear I have of changing things. I want to change those scores. Because if you don't make any changes and you keep just tolerating things then.

As obvious as it sounds, nothing will change, and you will keep recreating the same sets of circumstances in, in, in your life. but like I say, it can, it can just take courage and vulnerability to really, to really look at, because then the next thing we do then is go, oh, no, I don't really want that. I don't, I don't want it.

I don't want it if it means me feeling like I've let someone down, so no, actually I'd rather not want that thing anymore and we we start then not wanting what we want. Louise, it'll be really useful to look at the original questionnaires, yeah, I'll get on it. Remind me if they've not been forthcoming in a, in a couple of weeks.

And. To, so it, it takes courage to say, actually, if I'm being honest, hand on heart, that is what I would like for myself, not through the lenses of should or other people's expectations, and then to know that you're not a bad, lazy, selfish, insert whatever negative belief for wanting those things. Now this is not, I'm not saying this is about being selfish.

I'm not saying you just all go through other people and you don't give two hoots about what, or you start letting people down left right and centre. That's not what I'm saying at all. But what I am saying is, it's good to stop trying to be all things to all people.

And it's really important to at least recognise, acknowledge and own what you do or don't want, and then look for ways to, as much as you can, start bringing your life in alignment with that way you can. Because ultimately, constantly living out of alignment leads to you contracting, staying small. It leads to, it can lead to burnout, or, or it can just lead to that niggling, disconnected feeling that comes from not really expressing who you truly are.

And most of us will tolerate that to a point in our lives, and then there's just that feeling of actually, I just don't want to feel this disconnect, I need to start being, being true to myself. So that's step one, only your choices. Step two is then this concept of having a breakthrough role.

So with that, what I was asking you to do was select one of your roles, and it's for the next 12 months, which is a major area of focus. So it's not that, that's the only thing you will focus on. You will be doing things in all of your roles, obviously, as well as firefighting stuff that comes up as and when.

But it's a really good discipline to think about, you know, usually each year, there just is fairly obviously one role that needs more of your attention. Now, sometimes that might be something is out of your hands. So maybe it's elderly parents becoming poorly, or perhaps you're a new parent and you're, you know, you're just settling into your role of parenting.

Maybe, for quite a few of you, it might be that career development, career decision making role. Sometimes it can be the self-care role, because sometimes it can be like, unless I start to look after myself and start coming from the inside out and really caring for me, my wheels are gonna fall off, and then none of these other roles are gonna happen. So did you find it, for those of you that have done the exercise, have you chosen a breakthrough role yet?

If and did that seem relatively intuitive and obvious, or have you not picked one yet and not, not quite sure which one to pick just to see how people are getting on with that one. I'll have a sip and me drink while I'm waiting. Anybody got any breakthrough roles?

-huh. OK. Yes, but almost felt guilty that it wasn't my vet role that I chose yet.

Again, Jenny, that's really useful to know, asking yourself what, you know, being curious about that, not reading too much into it, not, you know, it doesn't automatically mean that the vet role isn't important to you, but just get curious, stay open and curious as to why do I feel guilty about that? What am I saying to myself? .

It was intuitively intuitive for Rosie, but ironically not the vet role as well. Yeah, interesting, this is good. Louisa chosen career development as the course has helped us focus on that.

Great. Rich's not picked one yet. Rich, you'll, yeah, absolutely, well, you'll get to that, you can.

Struggling, Rebecca, struggling with the breakthrough role as the one I think it should be, is the one I feel will be very difficult to make progress with, OK. Yeah. See how that's settling in over the next couple of weeks, Rebecca, it might be quite a good one to bring to the Q&A session.

So if you pick a career change role, but I also want to focus on my sister role, this should be easy enough to do though, yeah. And sometimes what I've done with clients is where, although I do push people to pick an annual role. You get this is your life balance wheel.

It's not set in stone. It's not an exam. No one's gonna mark you on it.

So if you want to pick a breakthrough role and then get halfway through the year and pivot and go, right, well, I've had a real push on that role now and actually something else is important for the second half of the year, you get to do that. So it's, it's having a focus is good, but don't get so locked on. So maybe Sophie, you could do career changes for 6 months and then focus on your system, .

Elliot came quite easily, Ros, not intuitive, there are 3 that are deeply interlinked yet. And sometimes with that Ros, if they're all, if it's all much of a muchness which one. Then just use your intuition to pick one, and it, it will feed into the other two as well.

So don't get too tangled up in it if that's the case, just pick one. Nikki, finding it difficult to choose, I feel like there are some, yeah, some should keeping and things that I should choose, but other things are also more important that need work. Yeah, have a look back at your values, Nikki.

Have a look at your life's, there's the, when I send the forms back, have a look at what your scores were, . And try and be the the courage piece is not to go with the obvious should at times, and, and just see how that feels. So sit with it for a little bit.

And again, if, if that's still a struggle, you can bring that to the Q&A session in a couple of weeks. Catherine, I feel like I should choose self-care. OK, and that that feels like a positive should it sounds like.

And hopefully this will allow me to improve, other roles as well. Yeah, Catherine, it's a, it, it, it is often one that then really feeds into, to the other roles as well, when, because especially if it's one that you haven't been dedicating much time to or you know that that's dropped off the radar, then bringing it back online can have a, it's an important part of self, self compassion as well. OK, great.

Get some really good responses there, guys. Thank you. Time is getting upon us.

We need to get onto the money stuff. OK, so we're, we're kind of really at the, the end of the life balance bit almost. So step 3, in, in the kind of design, the life you want really, is the fun part.

It is, it's getting to the proactive design bit. So that's the little section that we do around the outside of the schools where you can start to pop 125 sort of little goals or targets of where you would like to get to. Over the next 12 months, ideally, and, but for that to come from a place of it feeling good, so not, not just about pushing yourself for achievement and attainment and goals, but actually what would it feel fun to create?

Who do I want to be as a wife, partner, dog walker, career changer, who, who do I want to be as a person in that role, and therefore, what would it feel good to me to create? And some roles, that might be in maintenance. So it may, may well be that quite often my friend role, for example, I feel like that's ticking along quite nicely.

So sometimes there's not a huge amount rather than remember everyone's birthdays and meet up with people fairly regularly. There's not so much that might go into a maintenance phase role, whereas quite often in your breakthrough role or other areas that need attention, there might be several things, that, that go into that as well. So, your tools for that is a self compassion, I, it's OK to want what you want.

I want to see this, lack of critical self judgement, so not judging yourself for the choices that that you would like to make. Putting yourself in a growth mindset. So this is trying to, you know, starting to stretch into what could be possible for you, and that, that, that comes as the self-belief starts to get better, and also there's the need to, the ability to set goals.

So, and certainly the goal setting piece and self-belief piece we've got coming as well, so. If, if that section feels a bit tricky to some of you, that's absolutely fine. And it's actually OK if you're wobbling quite a few of these areas at the moment.

I would expect that at this level, if you've not done this exercise before. I'm asking you to think in a different way, and use your brain differently. So it, it gets easier.

I do this exercise every year, and I find it really cathartic, and I really enjoy it. And you kind of get better at knowing what the right things to pick yourself are. So.

I think save any, any more questions for the Q&A. Keep having a crack at it. For those of you that haven't tackled it yet, hopefully there's some pointers in what we've run through tonight, because I do just want to spend the last 10 minutes or so, just thinking about a different aspect of this.

There are, there are actually two aspects of the wheel in particular, that can really impact our ability to find balance. One of them we're gonna cover to tonight, which is the financial element. And the other one is sort of rest, play, and stuff that doesn't fall under the category of work.

And I'm actually gonna put that in, in with another section of the course now. I think it is gonna sit a bit better. So.

The reason that Finances can impact our ability to balance is that it can be a really powerful potent thing thinking about money. So I'm actually just gonna hop back into my slides for the last few minutes so I can remember, I'll get myself how to do that again. So the windows open my chair, PowerPoint.

Oh, Is that Sherry? Yes, it is. OK, let's pull that up then.

So, why am I saying that finances can impact our ability to get balance? Well, there's, there, there, it's a potent bugger finance. And it cropped up for us in lots and lots of different ways.

So I had a wee look back at everyone's form, and actually for 7 of you, when I was asked that question, what are the major challenges to achieving the reason that you wanted to come on the course, 7 of you cited financial. Financial restrictions or financial concerns or financial worries, you know, finance in some way, shape or form came out as a major challenge, for at least 7 of you, and I suspect there's probably more people for whom it does have, have relevance as well. So quite often with our finances, there's a genuine restriction.

So your mortgage is your mortgage. The, your bills, yes, you might be able to nibble a little bit off your gas and electric if you, you shop around, but the, the, the, how much it costs to run your household is relatively, fixed. So also for some of you, you might be the main breadwinner in your family, maybe you're on maternity or paternity leave at the moment, so your financial circumstances are, are, are different.

So there, there absolutely can, can often be some genuine financial restrictions where I have to put in this. Sometimes though, there is also, there can also be an element of a reluctance to change. So we get used to the amounts of money that we're, we're earning.

And shifting or making changes does not always mean that our money's gonna go down. But, and, but it, it makes, you know, it kind of goes without saying that if you looked at a role and it was more than you were on at the moment, or it's changed, that's a no-brainer. You're not exactly gonna stress or worry about that.

So the worry tends to come from. If you're looking at something and it might involve a bit less money than you're on now. So, and, and that's within this, but it's not hitting your genuine restriction of I can't go anywhere near that, because I have to put in more, but where it's less than what you're on.

And so we can, we can start to think, well, I don't know if I want to be on less than I'm on that, you know, I'm aren't supposed to just be increasing my income. What would that mean if I had to pull the horns in a bit, would I enjoy that? Would I not, you know, what's more important to me?

And so sometimes that's, that can bring an element, of, of challenge. And then we can have some limiting beliefs about what making any changes or changes or tweaks to our career can have. So we, it's for some people that I speak to, they just have a sort of black and white belief that if I change my role or career or job or anything, then That might mean that's going to mean less money or it means that I need to start from the beginning and retrain or I'm gonna need money for investment for retraining.

So there can be some black and white things that then make us go, well, I can't consider that. And actually, it's that that that's not a universal truth. So absolutely, if you're thinking of fully diversifying and going into a completely different profession in which you have absolutely zero experience, yes, you would be starting from scratch and you'd be needing to retrain.

But there's not many people that actually do that. And even within that, it's not always necessary to go and get a second degree. There's so many transferable skills.

So it's really just wanting to start to get you to look at what you're saying to yourself about the financial implications of a role change or or a career tweak. And looking how much is a genuine financial restriction, how much is this, I'm not sure whether I'm willing to do that. And have I got some things there that I'm saying to myself that's the truth, but actually it's an assumption and I don't know whether that's true or not.

The reason it's that it's important to pay attention to this is that in today's Western modernised world, then, then money is kind of like today's saber-toothed tiger in that it's kind of linked to our survival. We need it to survive in, in, in, today's modern world. So It's also about not making changes that would start to hit over here because it's really, really difficult to feel creative and motivated and be overcoming courage if you're, if you're so worried about money or how you're gonna pay the mortgage that you just can't think creatively.

So it's, it's finding that balance and also recognising that most of us do have quite a physiological response to to thinking about finance. Our money is also linked to our self-worth. So we generally will subconsciously put a cap on our income, depending on how much, how valuable we feel we are.

So our self-worth can be linked in with that in not so helpful way. So if there's self-confidence issues, self-worth challenges, we can, we can get concerned that, well, it's not OK for me to earn more money, or I'm not going to be worth more money. And certainly, you will not, you will not bring in more money than you think subconsciously you are worth.

So an interesting thing tends to happen when you do the self-worth piece that's coming later is often our income generating ability suddenly goes up because we stop feeling like we're not worth worthy, so much so that it can be impacting in there as well. And then we all have our own set of money beliefs. So we have a money mindset.

We, and usually that comes from our, what we heard about money growing up. And I know certainly for, one of you reading your forms, that, there's certainly for one person, particularly within their childhood, where there was quite a lot of negative stuff around money and that that's really impacting her still today in terms of how she feels about financing the security element of that. So that can come into play as well.

So you can see it's kind of quite multifactorial, and all of that stuff can kind of get in the way of the bit of you that goes, I really want this balance, and I really want to make these changes, but oh shit, the money. And so being starting to examine that and look at that as well can be really helpful. Just keep an eye on time, so we're, we're fine.

Might be, might run 5 minutes over, if that's OK. So you're not gonna be on at 9:30 again, I promise. So it's beyond the scope of within this course for me to also go fully into the money thing, but I wanted to bring it to your attention because for those of you where it does feel like a really potent consideration, then I want you to be arming yourself with as much knowledge as you can about this.

And we, we're just thinking about it so that it doesn't hold you back, and that you can still grow and evolve in the direction that you want to. So there's a few things here. The first thing is it's really important to know your numbers.

Now, you're all gonna range really, in how you manage your personal finances. Some of you might be really on it and really know your numbers. So what I mean there is how much it costs you or your you and your partner or your family unit, you know, what whatever that comprises, how much does it cost you to run your life each month.

So, do you have a budget? Do you just roughly know how much it costs, or are you absolutely specific about it? If you don't know, and you would like to know, so that you can sort of work out what's, what's possible and feasible for you, when I first started doing this, I got my internet banking, I got 6 months' worth of bank statements downloaded off my internet banking as a, as an Excel spreadsheet, and most bank, internet banking will be that.

So once I had 6 months of worth of transactions. Then I went and created sort of a code, say 1 to 20 or whatever codes of what's food and groceries, what's petrol, what's haircuts, what's cat food, what's stuff I spend on my doors there, postage travel. It's quite easy to kind of categorise your, your spending in that cheeky little Amazon habit, and that sort of thing.

And then, yes, it can take a bit of time, maybe 1 to 2 hours, to, to just go through and actually code each spend. And then you can sort that and that will give you a 6 month snapshot of retrospectively what your budget has been, and that can be so interesting to look at. let me just have a wee look, your chat box is flashing.

Yolp is a really good app. Rebecca is saying that does this automatically, yeah, I'm, I'm a bit in the dark ages about that, so. That's it.

So yeah, yolk, everybody, for those of you that are watching on the, so YOLT, if you're watching on replay because you won't have to chat, so it's just great for getting a handle on what your It's relatively easy to work out your non-discretionary spending, so mortgage, gas, electricity, income protection, pension, those things that are just, they go out and that's it. What's trickier is our discretionary spending. So yeah, food is not discretionary, but it's still the amount to vary each month.

It's looking at those variable spend. Because few sort of points of reference that I want you to know and be able to articulate clearly for yourselves is what is the absolute minimum that if I had to wind my horns in for a period of time in order to make a shift or a change, what do we absolutely have to bring in? I know, for example, that in our household, that has to be $500 a month, which is just astronomical, and it was really quite scary for, for us having to find that when we were going through periods of grazing change.

And that, but that includes absolutely everything that we spend. And we don't, you know, it's, anyway. So what is the minimum amount?

And I'm not saying that you go and live at the minimum amount, it's just useful to know what that is. But then also, what's the dream? What's the maximum?

What would you like to aim for? Because it's important to know that. So what does that, what does that look like?

We all know that, most of us feel like we'd love more money, right? But what does that mean? Does that mean you're earning 50,000 a year, 70,000 a year, 1000, 350?

What is it? Because actually, knowing that sends a powerful message to your subconscious. It can, it can, again, highlight you to limiting beliefs in terms of you might say to yourself, well, I'd like 100k, but I don't think I'm worth it.

I don't think I deliver enough value, or these are all just limiting beliefs and not truths. So getting you to decide what you would like to aim for, ultimately, even if you have absolutely no idea at this stage how you would get there. Also, the other thing that can impact our maximum figure.

Is if you currently hold the belief that if I want to earn more money, I have to work harder. So I, because that will often then stop us from wanting to earn more, because we're like, well, if I'm doing 1011 hour days and I'm absolutely exhausted and I have no life balance. I don't want to earn more money if that, you know, where's the extra hours going to come from?

And it's disconnecting that belief that earning more money means you have to work harder because it's, it's simply not true. . Which brings us neatly on to kind of, what is your own money story.

So I want you to start thinking about, what are my beliefs about money? What did I hear growing up? Did, did you come from quite a wealthy background where it abundance and financial wealth is the norm and that's expected?

Did you perhaps come from a background where there wasn't so much around and you were hearing things like money doesn't grow on trees and use the money in, money out and all those sort of things. So Knowing where your current kind of set point is with all of that, it's, it's kind of an important part of of this jigsaw, in terms of being able to, to think about that. And then when I say stay open and curious what I mean about that is.

I guess when I think really of my own diversification journey and what's happened financially around that. So I didn't come from a wealthy background. I sort of put myself through uni.

A couple of years after graduating, I was 20 grand in debt, and as a, as a new graduate debt, it took me quite a significant amount of time, probably about a decade, to, to pay that back. And then as I started to diversify and work my way at Vets Now, when, once I got to sort of the top of Vets Now, and I was on the senior management board, I was on 60,000, which felt like it still is a good amount of money. And, and it, it felt like megabucks.

And, having gone from being plenty in debt and not really having any money, suddenly I was, I had fair money and I was able to have savings for the first time. And, that felt really different. But then when Vets now started to not feel like the right thing for me and I moved to Vet Dynamics, at that point I'd squirrelled away a little bit of a savings pot which I was saving for a house deposit.

And when the Vet Dynamics opportunity came along, Alan had set it up initially like a thing, so you actually had to buy into vet Dynamics. And the amount needed was, weirdly, the exact amount that I saved up for this house deposit. So it was sort of all my life savings.

And I'd known Alan for years. I trusted him, and I really, I liked that dynamics, but this franchise model that he was doing was completely new. It wasn't proven.

And And my intuition felt like that was a, it was a good move. I wanted to do it. I knew I would learn.

I was so terrified. I remember not sleeping. I remember feeling sick.

I remember just going, Am I crazy? I think my intuition is saying, this is the right thing. But these were my life savings.

And also leaving the security of a nice, fat, employed paycheck to really step into the unknown. And Once I, once I made that, and that was also when I shifted from, from employed to running my own business and and the mindset shift that came with that as well. And then since then what's been interesting to me is that My income has then hopped about.

It's gone up and down, like, like a yo yo, from barely scraping a grand a month for the first bit at Vetynamics, which was really scary. But then 11 particular astronomical year at Vet Dynamics, I think I did pull in just over 100, and that just felt like nothing. But then again, when I, then going on map leave and going back to not having anything coming in because I was running my own business, to then setting up that harmony and The, what's been interesting for me in that journey is that having gone from 600 to 10 a month, and I was the main breadwinner, so it wasn't like at that point that my, my now husband and boyfriend did step in and vote me.

It, it was, it was really scary. What I've learned from that is, you know what I was saying about the reluctance to change your income. When you're forming your heart and when you're, when you're really behind the why of what you're doing, it is amazing how much less you can, as long as you're not going near the actual I can't live and pay my bills a bit, it's amazing how much less you can manage on when you know it's temporary, when you believe it's temporary, when you believe in yourself and you believe in what you're doing and why.

And, actually, your, your level of happiness is like a set point. And having more money, or hardly any money, it just amplifies your set point of happiness. And if you want to shift that, you need to do the mindset work on the happiness.

Having more or less money doesn't, it doesn't shift that so much. So that's been interesting. And then also, you know, a lot of people can have a fear if I go part time or if I have a child, I'm not gonna have much.

And I managed to somehow set up that harmony on maternity leave with no money coming in and set up the whole business, and for the first year of the business, I just ran it doing it 2 days a week. So And that's because I'd heard and talked and talked to other people and found out how they were doing it and realised it was possible. Whereas before, I'd have thought, that's not possible.

I wouldn't have even gone for it, because I wouldn't have believed that was possible. So, that's my story, and I know my story isn't gonna fit for everyone else, but I just want you to stay open and curious, about the financial element, particularly if it is feeling a little bit pokey. So, I hope that's helpful and useful.

Like anything, the more you know about these concepts, the more it can help. These, again, if you're if you can go into the replay and pause on this section if you want to get these references, there's a few books that I found quite helpful in terms of understanding, not understanding money in terms of. How to invest and how to, you know, not the, not so much the how to, but more understanding money is an energy, money linked to self-worth, money linked to your beliefs.

So looking at how to work on your underlying beliefs or just the, the understanding that it's not bad to want more money, that you will have and create more impact and have be able to help others with that. So there's just a few references on there for anyone who is, finds this sort of thing interesting or for who it is particularly an issue for. So.

as I say, you can hop back into repay and pause it on there if you need to have those references, so I'm gonna stop sharing. Now, as we bring the session to a close for tonight. So I hope that's given you some food for thought, and, .

Our next session, because we've got half term coming up. So, and I did think about doing it during half term, but then realised I was going to look to get childcare, and actually it was quite good to have little breathers built into the course because there are quite a lot of exercises and they don't want out. So the next session will be the Q&A, and do feel free in the Q&A to ask anything.

So, it can be related to what we've covered tonight or this module, but it can also be from any of the other bits that that we've done so far. So that will be on Thursday, the 27th. And then our next module will be coming out, on, we'll be doing that on March 3rd.

So there we'll be moving into the 3rd and final piece of, the Sort of external research part, which will be starting to think about the opportunities that may be available. So either morphing within your current role or business or starting to think outside the box and think, is it time for a bit of a semi or diversion, or, or whatever, so diversification, and those sorts of things. And if so, what sort of options could I consider?

How do I find them? How do I make the time to look into them? How do I research them?

All of that sort of stuff. And some of the mindset bits that come along with that. So is the Q&A from last week available?

I don't know. Rich, are you able to help with that question? Do we know if the, the Q&A is up on the site yet?

I'll have a little look afterwards, Louise, and check as well, and I can let everyone know via email. so I will get the part of what we're gonna look at in module 3 with the career clarity blueprints, Rip saying yes, it's, it's. It's going to be the desired conditions and the working work elements from the first module.

So if you haven't tackled the desired condition and the work elements yet, it would be a good idea to have done that by March 3rd, but you've got a few weeks, you've got a few weeks, for that. And there might be one or two other bits that, that, I send you to have for as well, and I'm very aware of not overloading people because, you know, there's a lot of stuff that, that we, we're already working through. OK, so, I will pop up a, I, I, I will be, I'm on half term next week, so there'll be periods of next week when I might go radio silent, but I will still be nipping in and out of the Facebook group and having a look.

I'm loving seeing all the, the posts that people are putting in there, and setting the Monday intentions. I hope that's been useful. And it's really nice, it was really good to read everyone's personal and professional, what, what you were celebrating on Friday last week as well.

And some good reflections in there. So what, so I'll be hopping in and out of that next week. And then I will see you all on Thursday the twenty-seventh for the next Q&A.

And obviously if there's anything that crops up in between, time, then you can get out either via email, or through the Facebook group. OK guys, so that's it for this evening. I will bid you good evening and let you go and relax with a glass of wine, cup of tea in search drink of choice, and, I will see you all again very soon.

Good evening, goodbye for now.