How do I make time for my own life when I plan everyone else's trips?
You have handed hundreds of people the trips of their lives, and somewhere in all that giving you stopped planning your own. That is not a small irony. It is a quiet kind of self-neglect that people who are good at serving others fall into easily. Notice what happened. You made everyone else's time off sacred and treated your own as the thing that could always wait. But a life is not built from what is left over. If you can plan a stranger's week down to the dinner reservations, you can hold three days for yourself. Put it on the calendar first, before the season fills up, and guard it the way you would guard a client's once-in-a-lifetime trip. Start small and soon. Pick one trip, even a short one, and book the first piece this week. You already know how to do this better than almost anyone. The only thing missing is deciding that your own life deserves the same care you give everyone else's. It does.