Mid-Year Check-In With Yourself (Even When You’re In The Thick of Things)
As the financial year wraps up, it’s easy to fall into that quiet comparison loop.
“Should I be further ahead?”
“Have I done enough?”
“Is it too late to start something now?”
But this halfway point doesn’t have to be a performance review.
It can just be a moment to check in with yourself, not everything you’ve ticked off.
This one’s for the women in the messy middle.
The ones keeping things moving; family, business, people, life, even when they’re running on low.
Maybe there’s something you’ve wanted to start, but haven’t had capacity.
Maybe there’s an idea still sitting quietly in the background, waiting for a little more breathing space.
Maybe you’re just trying to keep your head above water right now and that’s valid too.
This isn’t a push to do more or be more.
It’s a chance to ask: is this working for me or just familiar?
Not the loud stuff. The stuff underneath.
Because what I know for sure is:
Most of the women I work with aren’t short on the drive, ideas, or motivation.
They don’t need another productivity hack.
They don’t need a new planner or a better way to schedule their week.
It’s not time they’re missing.
It’s the energy to keep doing things the way they’ve always done them.
They’re tired of carrying it all and still silently wondering if they’re not enough.
They’re showing up. Getting it done. Holding it together.
But they’re dreaming quietly. Often alone. And almost always last on their own list.
So if that’s you:
You’re not behind. You haven’t missed your chance. And no, it’s not too late.
The second half of the year is still ahead. Let’s not write ourselves off just yet.
A few questions to check in with yourself no pressure, just curiosity:
1. What season are you in?
Some seasons aren’t about growth.
They’re about holding steady, consolidating what you’ve already built, or quietly laying foundations no one else can see.
Ask yourself:
Am I surviving? Stretching? Starting over?
2. What’s been sitting in the background?
That idea, that project, that quiet “maybe” or that next move, it’s worth writing down.
You don’t need to act on it right now, but you can give it space to exist.
3. What’s been calling for your attention?
Not from the to-do list but from somewhere deeper in you.
What keeps tapping you on the shoulder?
4. What have you outgrown?
This is a big one and it doesn’t need an immediate answer.
But noticing what no longer fits is a powerful place to begin.
5. Where can you carve out a pocket that’s actually all yours, even just 10 minutes?
Not to catch up on emails. Not to sort dinner. Not squeezed in between prepping for meetings.
Just a pocket of time where no one needs anything from you.
You don’t have to map out the whole second half of the year.
But you do get to be honest about what’s working, and what’s not.
Here’s to the women doing the deep work in the middle of the mess..
In the car, in the boardroom, in the paddock, between client calls, or while everyone else is asleep.
You're not behind. You're just in the middle of something important.
Let’s talk again soon xx