09/08/2026
👉🏼 What if the life you’re trying so hard to manage is the very thing you’re forgetting to experience?
A conversation with a client recently made me think about this.
She had a life she was grateful for.
People she loved. Work that mattered to her. Things she’d worked hard for.
Still, something didn’t feel right.
She was tired more often than she wanted to admit.
Her energy seemed to run out before the day did.
There was always something else needing her attention and, even when she had time to herself, she found it difficult to really switch off.
She wasn’t looking for a completely different life.
She wanted to feel more like herself in the life she already had.
As we talked, it became clear how much of her energy was going into managing.
Thinking ahead. Remembering. Organising. Keeping things moving. Making sure nothing got dropped.
Perhaps you recognise some of this.
I thought about it again when I stopped beside these trees.
At first, I noticed what was immediately in front of me.
The trunks. The branches. The leaves.
Then I looked through them.
There was a whole view beyond them that I’d almost missed.
Life can feel a little like that.
We can become so occupied with what’s immediately in front of us that we stop seeing the wider picture.
That’s part of what Human Wellbeing by Design means to me.
Not creating a perfectly balanced life.
Not adding another set of things to do well.
It’s noticing how the life we’ve created is actually affecting the person living it.
Our energy. Our health. Our relationships. Our sense of ourselves within it all.
Sometimes the question isn’t:
How can I manage everything better?
Perhaps it’s:
What am I no longer seeing because I’m so busy managing what’s in front of me?
Maybe one to sit with this Sunday. đź’›
