June 21st, 2011

Why I’m a Work from Home Mum Now – Don’t Ever Give up on Your Dreams


Do you spend time dreaming about your ideal lifestyle? Or have you given up on it? If you suddenly found you could afford the lifestyle of your dreams, what would it be? What would you do? Sounds simple but it’s not.  I’m a work from home mum now and there’s an important reason for that. I had a wake up call and made it happen.

Maybe you’ve been conditioned to think that you have to put up with your lot in life, particularly if you’re a low income household working for a boss in a traditional job.  You probably think there’s no point in dreaming so you don’t. And even if you had any lifestyle dreams and aspirations, they are so deeply buried, you couldn’t access them in your subconscious anyway.

Conditioning takes away your creative thinking in such a way that you become desensitised to your dreams and aspirations.

That was me a year ago.

After I was made redundant from my job last year, I was asked this very question.  I had to think of what my dream lifestyle would be like –  and I couldn’t come up with the answer and that shocked me.

I found it incredibly difficult and it took me weeks to work it out.   I’d get up early and go out with my dog each morning and try and piece it all together. My dreams were buried so deeply, that I could only retrieve them piece by piece.

That was a wake up call for me and was the result of what had happened to me by being conditioned to think that my lot in life was always working for someone else in a regular job along with the constraints associated with it.

Apart from coming up with the obvious, like nice country house, new car, great holidays and other tangibles, what I found most disturbing, and more importantly, was the realisation that for the many years I’d diligently gone off to work to earn money to help support my family, our quality family time had been heavily eroded and was gone forever.

I’d just accepted the fact that this was how life was and that you just had to deal with it. It had never occurred to me that life could be completely different with freedom.  I hadn’t thought that there could be choice for an ordinary person like me.

By freedom, I’m talking about the kind of freedom to be with my family when they need me. Put simply, to be able to take my daughter to school and collect her in the afternoon. To be able to stand in the playground and chat to other mums and dads. To be able to go into class and read with the children. To be able to take my daughter to the doctor or dentist when necessary without the worry of how I’d get the time off work.  What a luxury that would have been for me.  And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Mornings in our household were usually a rush with arguments and stress and I’d have to drive like crazy, risking a speeding fine.  We’d all go off in our own directions and usually feeling fraught and upset. There was never any chance of taking my daughter to school first. I’d have loved that and always felt guilty and resentful that I couldn’t. It seemed like a violation of my rights as a parent and so unfair.

I think you get the picture now. There’s so much more that I haven’t been able to do with my family but all that’s changed since I set up my own Internet business from home. Now I work around my family priorities and it’s truly liberated me and we all benefit.

I’ve woken right up to the fact that my dreams are now my reality. I can take my daughter to school now and it’s a wonderful feeling. This is why I’m a work at home mum at last. I feel free for the first time in my life and I’m never going back.

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