I have been getting messages from the Universe for a while. I have got pretty good at ignoring them, just keep pushing through regardless, basically I have built my whole life around it. As the main bread winner sometimes it felt like there has been very little other choice. I suppose there is great satisfaction to getting stuff done at the end of the day as well.
But you can only burn the candle at both ends for so long. As I have gotten a bit older now I definitely do not recover as fast and I seem to feel more of the ache in my body both sporting and work wise.
I suppose the turning point for me was a series of niggling overuse injuries that stopped me from doing what I really enjoyed and I just knew things had to change.
Even though I stopped with my main job I seem to be just as busy at home with a few renovation at the moment. It has helped not commuting as much and not having to do as longer hours but a ladder is still a ladder. When I start a job I also just want to keep going until it is finished and it is just not sitting there waiting to be done.
Cleaning up my diet has helped too, as well as Hive for a hobby gives me some more recovery and time off my feet.
There is still a long way to go as I only seem to be able to change one small bad habit at a time but in the big picture there in definitely improvement and progress.