After many fun years building a career and visiting cities, mountains and waterfalls across the world, enjoying festivals, beaches, bars and restaurants, and having countless lie ins, I kind of felt like I had filled my cup.

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I remember overlooking the edge of an infinity pool on a trip to Malaysia with my husband, the sun was setting, with a cocktail in my hand, and feeling like something was missing (just writing this makes me chuckle, 5 exhausting, sleepless years later)

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I was no longer satisfied thinking only about myself. Within a few months back home, we fell pregnant, quicker than expected and as they say, the rest is history.

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Any working or non-working parents out there will know, there is always more to be done! Running a decorating business with my husband and launching my own online business whilst raising a baby and a toddler is certainly not for the faint hearted.

 

Keeping the family fed, clean and stimulated whilst managing a household and running a business left me feeling burnt out. I had these two beautiful, healthy, happy children, a supportive husband and successful business but I couldn’t fully appreciate any of it because I was just so busy and tired. Something had to give.

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It obviously wasn’t going to be my children's needs or happiness, it couldn’t be the business, so maybe the relentless, futile cleaning that I was trying to achieve each day, could that be streamlined I wondered? Maybe I could learn ways of finding peace of mind even while  juggling family and work? And perhaps in all of this, I could create an income stream that gave me more freedom to spend time with my family and less time working?

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I started to compile the most time efficient ways to achieve the mundane household stuff, I researched and began to practice methods to reduce stress through self care and better organisation (something that doesn't come naturally to me) and I gradually began to to implement new systems to maximise my earning potential as a mumtrepreuner.

 

Now I spend less time on the boring stuff and more time creating happy memories with my family and feeling more fulfilled as a mother and as a woman. Of course, it's a working progress,  so I am here to share everything I learn along the way.