Have you ever felt like a superhero? 🦸♀️
Have you ever felt like a superhero 🦸♀️? I have, and it was FANTASTIC!!
As I changed from the bloody scrubs back into my fancy dress and made sure I didn’t have any blood🩸splatters in my face before heading back to the wedding, my boss exclaimed: “You’re like superwoman!”
A bit of background…
I was at a wedding reception all dolled up when I received a desperate call from my boss; she found herself alone with a GDV and wanted to hear if I was available.
To be honest; I was quite bored at the wedding as I didn’t really know anyone, it was one of my husband's friends and it was near the clinic anyway, so….
I did not hesitate to say yes, and thought it was a great idea, and a lot of fun, and it felt amazing to be called superwoman - I felt it in my bones!
My husband, however, didn’t find it such a great idea, and didn’t understand why I had agreed to work, he didn’t get my excitement at all.
What was to follow were years of trying to balance this eagerness to do everything and anything “vet” - while being a mum and a wife.
I don’t know exactly when I started to feel less like a superwoman, and more like a wrung out cloth from all the expectations I was trying to live up to (mostly my own, but it FELT like I HAD to do all these things).
But looking back, I can see that one of the biggest causes of my burnout was my inability to set boundaries. This inability was due to 1) wanting to please everyone AND 2) not having set an intention around how I actually wanted my life to be and having clear priorities.
So BEFORE you lose the feeling of being a superhero, take time to sit down and decide, consciously, how you want to live your life.
Find out what your priorities in life are, and how you are living by them (or, NOT living by them), and what you want to change.
Now, I often feel like a superhero again at night when we do spectacular saves on impossible cases, or in the coaching sessions where my clients have spectacular breakthroughs.
But it’s not at the expense of the rest of my life. Because I’m clear on what I really want, and I set clear boundaries.