It\u2019s easy in today\u2019s world to get caught up in the dream of having a successful career and being the perfect wife and mothe….all at the same time.\u00a0 Have you ever thought, just for a minute, that you want to be the woman who has it all—perfect career and a perfect family?<\/p>\n
Whether you work full time, part time, or volunteer, perfection may be an ambition. As a business owner, it was easy for me to have the mindset that I must get it all done ASAP. \u00a0I can\u2019t make a mistake and my business should grow at a rapid pace to be successful. \u00a0However, I had to realize that every setback or failure gives me an opportunity to learn and do it differently.\u00a0 I must remember that, if I strived to have a perfect career and give 120% all of the time, there would be something else in my life that would suffer, like my family or health.<\/p>\n
Wife and Mother<\/b><\/p>\n
We can beat ourselves up thinking we need to be the perfect mother and wife. We want to do all and be all, but let\u2019s get honest with who we are and what we can do.\u00a0 Is it possible to cook a three course meal every night, volunteer for numerous projects and have kids involved in every activity and coming home with straight A\u2019s?\u00a0 Instead of trying to be perfect in every area, why not focus on making progress in the important things with our family. If you have followed me for a while, you have probably heard me mention one of my favorite books, Crazy Love<\/b>.\u00a0 Author Francis Chan quotes Tim Kizziar, \u201cOur greatest fear as individuals should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don\u2019t really matter<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n
What Really Matters<\/b><\/p>\n
Have you ever been so concerned with getting things perfect in your career, your home, or in your children that it takes you away from enjoying what really matters?\u00a0 At the end of the day, year, or lifetime, what matters<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>\n Over the past month here at Girlfriends Coffee Hour, and in the January issue of Created Woman<\/a>, a faith and fashion magazine, I have shared how it can be easy to get caught up in the race of trying to be perfect with your health and fitness, spiritual walk, and career and family.\u00a0 As I coach<\/a> women to achieve life balance, physically and spiritually, the first step we take is to stop and evaluate if time is spent each day on what is a top priority.<\/p>\n I encourage you to pause and ask the Lord to show you any area of your life where you need to let go of the desire to be perfect. Ask Him to show you where you need balance instead of attempting to be the woman who has it all. You can achieve a life of complete wellness—physically, mentally, and spiritually.<\/p>\n In Good Health,<\/p>\n Crystal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s easy in today\u2019s world to get caught up in the dream of having a successful career and being the perfect wife and mothe….all at the same time.\u00a0 Have you ever thought, just for a minute, that you want to be the woman who has it all—perfect career and a perfect family? Career Whether you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4974,2399],"tags":[2475,268,2256,1287,425,4000,5248],"class_list":["post-17381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-health-wellness-fitness","tag-coaching-with-crystal","tag-crazy-love","tag-crystal-breaux","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-life-balance","tag-the-woman-who-has-it-all","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-4wl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17403,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17381\/revisions\/17403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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