Hi Daniel - I’ve just seen your other post, too: I've just found this forum
@Charlesh47 and @Melly1 can share community guidelines about sharing/promoting a LinkedIn article.
Given your questions and thoughts, may I offer a few well-meaning questions:
- Have you thought about the expectations you’re setting for yourself? Can you articulate what you mean by “be a brilliant family carer and run a brilliant business”
As a single human being with 24hours in a day where you require time to eat, sleep you have finite energy and time.
- What is ‘Brilliant’? What does "success’ look like each day for you?
Reconciling what you can and can’t do, and setting realistic expectations, go a LONG way toward not setting yourself up to fail at both.
My recommendation: avoid perfectionism, and try to avoid self-frustrating - doing things that you know will definitely exacerbate stress, and focus on small consistent wins. I set groundrules and basic understanding with clients to level set expectations…but this also means I decline work. This all depends on the nature of your business. Curating a new normal, can still be ambitious but it’s a personal definition.
Hope that helps