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I’ve had the most extraordinary few weeks in terms of places I have been and people I have met, but often during these times I am so busy that I tip towards the right-hand side of the graft and I can’t take it all in.

I admire the people who seem to be able to go from extraordinary thing to extraordinary thing and bat it off and bat it off, but for me I need some processing time and space to think about what I have seen, how it impacts on me and how I soak it in.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been able to meet people who I never thought I would get to meet in positions which seem almost mythical or ridiculous to me, mostly related to my work and often in different geographical locations.

During one weekend in Helsinki I met countless extraordinary people as we moved every 45 minutes from one new person to the next.

The funny thing is though it was work, and although the people were extraordinary and amazing I was miles away from home; it’s still work.

The following weekend I got to spend time with my happy family. My family and their family interacting together, laughing, joking and playing, generally having fun.

You can travel if you want, and you can meet the extraordinary people if you like but in the end ‘your work exists to give you the life you want’ and if you want a life with your family, the more time you spend with them the better it is.

I will always struggle with this balancing act, the divide, where I crave the chase towards the bright shiny object but at the expense of my sanity. Now more than ever I need to walk the path without straying off (this goes against the grain and character).

There are so many opportunities in either direction but the prize at the end of the path is almost beyond imagination.

It’s just difficult to stay on the path.

Blog post number: 1678