Easter Holidays - It's A Landmark for me!
What are we all working for? The simple and quick answer is that we are all here to make money.
But why do we want this money, what is it all for? I know exactly what I want money for. It is so that I can afford to be at home and spend more time with my children.
I want to be here to do homework with my kids in the afternoons. I want to lift them to sport and watch them play in matches. I want to lift them to birthday parties and I want to stay at home with my kids and look after them when they are sick.
I started an online baby store in 2012 with this as my vision the year after my first baby was born. By the time my second child was a year old I was so stressed out and I felt trapped. I was struggling to work my website and I was more trapped than I would have been working for someone else because my business was taking up too much time and effort.
Then I stumbled across WA in June 2015 and it took me 6 months to realize that I didn't have to work myself to the bone for so little returns.
In Ferbruary 2016 I woke up one day and it came to me so clearly - shut the store and go full steam with blogging. Take a leap of faith and just DO it. Take a massive hit in income right now - for my future and the future of my kids.
I was scared but I could just feel that it was right for me. That very same day I did it, I let everyone know I was closing my store and changing it to a blog. People were shocked and they were worried about me. They sent condolences...
But I was celebrating and so excited, I felt liberated and amazing. Soon after that announcement I went to my kids playschool and I gave them notice that my kids would only be there for the mornings and not sit in aftercare every day until 5pm.
Everyone thought I was crazy and I had lost the plot, but I could see my truth.
Easter 2016 was the first school holidays that my kids spent at home with mommy instead of being at aftercare at the playschool from 8am - 5pm.
This is what I work for and while I may not be a millionaire I am sitting at home in my pj's making enough money to support my family and my kids are playing at home.
For me this milestone is more of a sign of success than my first sale on Amazon :)
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Now I have to run, its time to head out with my kids and go find some milkshakes -there is going to be very little working happening today since it is the first day of the Easter holidays!
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Hi Lynne,
Thanks a lot for the post. I've got 3 little treasures at home, and they are my prime motivators for me to get out of the rat race and spend increasingly more time with them. Hope you enjoy those milkshakes!
Cheers,
Norman
The milkshakes were awesome thanks Norman :) I wish you buckets of success and hope you can get into this full time soon. It is an amazing feeling.
Thank you for this post, Lynne!
I would use each word, written by you to describe my emotions, feelings, and understanding of the meaning of life.
I have three small kids, and I want to spend every minute possible with them.
I left my job at the beginning of the year to devote to WA. Probably the others think I am crazy to do this. (Even worse, sometimes I think I am nuts to put at risk the family existence)
But this makes me feel alive.
Happy Easter :)
Everyone may think that you are bonkers Anton but I totally understand and I truly hope you find as much success and happiness as I have :)
Let me know if there is anything I can help you with :)
What a wonderful Mum you are. When the children fly the nest you will look back at the happy memories and special time you have spent with your treasures. Have a blessed long weekend.
Tania we have already made such amazing memories. The last 2 years have flown by and I am so grateful I could be at home with my kids!
Love your story, Lynne! My 20 year old daughter and I recently had a conversation about why I quit my high paying job when she was 6. They grow up too fast and I didn't want to miss anything. Yes, we took a hit on our income but the rewards of being at home with her outweighed any of that! Happy Easter! Alanna
They do grow up so fast Alanna. I can't believe that my youngest child is already in school with her younger brother hot on her heels. The time is flying past. I am just so grateful I can be home with them. My mother was a stay at home mom and we were her full time job. I really appreciate all my mother did for me.
Love your post Lynne. That echoes in my heart as well and is the motivation behind my affiliate site too- to encourage and motivate moms and wannabe homemakers who share this heart's calling.
Have a blessed time and celebrate this milestone ❤
Wow! Wonderful, bravo, congratulations!
Congratulations on the decision taken, congratulations on your achievements, and Good luck in the future!
I also wish for myself, the financial freedom, the freedom to spend more time with my family, that's why I have appealed to this program and to this community.
Congratulations and much success once again
Thank you Eugenia :) You will be able to achieve it too through this platform. I am so grateful that I found my way here!
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So many stories like this here! Thanx for sharing and congrats!
I, too, took months before committing to WA, and then it was still a bunch of fits and starts. Nobody fully understands what I'm trying to do and they're either scared for me or have already labeled me a "loser" for leaving the rat race.
Posts like this help those like me remember the original goals and that this will all be worth it some day... financially. But it is definitely worth it NOW... mentally, emotionally, and -- daresay -- spiritually (and I don't mean that in a religious context, but if that works for you, great!).
Enjoy your holidays and your time with your family! That's reward enough.
Having enough faith in yourself and the guts to back it up? That does not sound like being a loser to me :)
Being able to stay at home and work is amazing and it will be financially worth it with a little time and work!
Thanx for the continued encouragement and support!
I know some are too scared to leave the hamster wheel, and I never fault them for it, but still I have had former co-workers and even family behave as though I had BETRAYED them.
Jealousy, I suppose. Their problems, not mine. I've move on.
I like it here better. And being home does rock!
You know what though when it came into my mind that day to just say F*** it and do exactly what I wanted I just knew that I wouldn't be able to get it out of my mind. I just didn't fight it. I couldn't do anything else.
That's awesome. I had a similar epiphanic moment. You just know.
And then there's no turning back... even when you want to, because everything is so new and somewhat scary.
I liken it to running back to an abusive relationship: You know it's the worst thing for you and you're going to get beat up, but it's familiar, which somehow makes it seem safer, if only because you've learned how to put up with the bad treatment.
So, onward and upward! Huzzah!