When last did you make time for your hobbies? Do you feel like you are on a constant hamster wheel within your job? What does success mean to you? At the beginning of my private practice journey, I thought that business success would help me feel happier and fulfilled. But over the last five years, I realized that I had to make a change.  In this podcast episode, I open up about my Canadian private practice journey and how my idea of what success means has changed. I hope that my experience will give you some food for thought about what success means to you, and how to find that invaluable fulfillment while starting and growing your own private practice. In This Episode: What I thought private practice success would feel like  What I realized about private practice success Achieving work-life balance  What I wish I knew when I was starting my practice  What I thought private practice success would feel like  First when I started my Canadian private practice around five years ago, I started it because I wanted to:  Be in control of my own work-life balance  Be my own boss  Counsel clients with therapy approaches I was passionate about  Begin the journey of being an entrepreneur  I thought that if I worked really hard, I would have a happy life. This idea is normalized in  university with the cycle of working hard, becoming burnt out, recuperating over a couple of weeks, and then starting the whole process over again in order to get a degree.  What I realized about private practice success  Over the past five years, I have learned that this capitalist notion of success and the constant hustle did not make my life a perfect dream and was not sustainable.  I now practice being aware of hustle culture and reminding myself that it will not fulfill me. This helps to stop myself from going back to the old ways of burning myself out to get things done.   Achieving work-life balance Having a clearer grasp on what makes you happy and pursuing that may help to achieve a sustainable middle ground between working and living.  Don't get caught up in work that you don't enjoy in the present because you think a certain level of success will make you happy in the future.  What are your expectations and what does your current mindset around having a Canadian private practice look like? Will your work help you in your life to achieve a more genuine sense of well-being and fulfilment?  If you are getting stuck in the mind loop of thinking that you will only be happy in the future once you have achieved a certain level of success, I challenge you to reframe that mindset!  Remember that happiness is not something you reach. It is something that you gain by doing the work, the work of prioritizing well-being every day!  What I wish I knew when I was starting my practice I wish that I knew at the beginning of starting my Canadian private practice that success would not make all my problems go away. Those feelings and stressors are a part of being human, and they require intentional work to resolve.  What I wish that I did when I started my practice was to invest more time into my hobbies, be social outside of work, and focus on things in my work that I actually enjoyed doing rather than the things that I felt I needed to do in order to reach a certain level of success/happiness. Connect with me: Instagram Resources Mentioned and Useful Links:  Ep 26: Starting a Canadian Group Private Practice  Article: How to Set Up a Canadian Private Practice Website  Sign up for my free e-course on How to Start an Online Canadian Private Practice Rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon, and TuneIn

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