The concept of downtime has always been a huge struggle for me, and it got worse when I became a business owner. I love what I do, so taking time to do something else felt very odd. I also have a drive to always be doing something productive, which frankly can be exhausting!

From talking ...with people recently it seems I am not alone in this, so I thought I would share the activities/hobbies I have chosen to use to carved out time to not work, but still, fulfil my need to be productive!

A big one for me is I choose to grow food, a significant portion of my garden is now used to grow seasonal produce to feed a hungry household.

There is something very rewarding about watching seeds grow from the ground you worked hard to prepare. To nurture all the seedlings and see them establish into crops.

We have about 10 different crops at the moment, from various lettuces and oriental leaves, dwarf beans and runner beans, squashes, courgettes and pumpkins, spinach, celery and radishes. The radishes and lettuces are already being eaten regularly. We have more planting to be done this weekend!

So if you are like me, and need downtime to also be productive, feel free to share what you do! I will gather some other images of my productive downtime activities and post them soon.

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Out and about again this afternoon, this could easily become a habit! A visit to London to see a client will round the week off nicely!

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Whilst there are some serious time-saving sides to working by video conference, Tuesday I headed to the coast of East Sussex to meet with clients for a very productive day. It felt wonderful to be out in with people!

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