I love this phrase:

“Go Out On A Limb, That’s Where The Fruit Is” Will Rogers

Another one that I like has to do with not going with the flow because the only time fish do that is when they are dead. Swimming upstream can bring you fruits of your labour. I love quotable quotes. I wrote one recently that I thought was worthy of being quoted:

“Our success is limited only by our imagination.” Dana Prince

I truly believe that. When I was a little girl I dreamed of being a writer. As an adult I made that happen. It didn’t happen because it was all nice and neat and tidy and wrapped up in a bow for me. I clawed my way there.  I fought to earn a third of what I earned in my previous life as a professional and I’m so much more fulfilled. I’ve increased my salary each year so far that I’ve done this and I have no doubt that within another year or two I’ll be at my old corporate salary or better. I am also supplying work to several people and to one who is one of my original mentors who’s in the middle of reinventing herself.  I must be doing something right!

Being a writer isn’t glamorous like I once thought it’d be but I must be born to write because despite the lack of glamour and lack of wealth (so far) and  7 days a week of work I can’t think of a job I’d rather do.

These days, I’m busy revamping. I’m busy revamping my business a little due to a minor setback. Minor in terms of slowing me down but major in the stress department. I’m trying to eat stress for breakfast so I don’t let it get to me because the fear and the wallowing in pity won’t get me through my little roadblocks.

I’m having a lot of The Big Meatball dreams. The Big Meatball is a nickname for a world famous logo and a company I slaved for for ten years before Wee Boy was born.  It’s been four years since I left and I still have bad dreams about cubicle life and life under ruthless leaders who felt like we should feel privileged to die of heart attacks for the good of the team because it was imperative to put the interests of the team ahead of the individual. Sadly, they wanted team to be above all including family, money and sanity. I’m glad I work for myself now.  I must be toiling with life though becuase I’m having recurring Big Meatball dreams. I will prevail.

It’s clean up time. I do the 27 fling boogie when the house is trashed and now it’s time to clean up some bad habits, some bad clients and muster forward.  I’m trying to make strides with chores at home, with my relationship, with the family budget and with the time I have for myself. It’s a tricky balancing act.  Balance is something we often strive for as Moms, as working Moms and as WAHM’s. We may never quite reach it but we have to claw our way through because that’s what we, the backbone of our family do.