The past few months, for the first time, I prioritized coziness & rest, minimizing stress and ambition and mindfully enjoying travelling with my family.

I just dropped my son off at school, and now I feel it's time to start a new season of focusing on my business again.

But I feel the need to bring that coziness back into my professional life and find ways to do bigger things while still being restful and relaxed.

It'll be a big challenge, but it's very important to me to get this right.

I don't want to hustle. I'm not desperate to be more successful. What I desire is more creativity, more freedom, more fun, following my curiosity and joy and excitement through my work. I want to help more people, particularly freelancers like myself. I want to go beyond my client work and work on projects for myself.

In the past it's been hard to juggle that stuff with my need to trade hours for money. That's where the challenge comes in, to do more but to keep it fun and cozy and stress free.

I think I've come to see how lowering expectations for myself really helps to take the pressure off. I'm hoping to thread that needle of doing more in some areas, maybe doing less in others to compensate, and being very mindful and measured in making sure I'm able to handle it all gracefully.