My Journey to Financial Freedom – Part 1

Time to sack my boss

Over the past 18months I have been incredibly quiet on the blog front, apologies! But I’ve been busy- putting all my energy and time into building myself the ideal life, a life where I could be a stay at home mum but still make money to enjoy an amazing lifestyle, a life of Financial Freedom. I had been in the so called ‘rat race’ for over 10 years and enjoyed a lot of success, but when I found out I was pregnant in 2012 I had a wake up call… I knew I needed to sack my boss and get out of my Job.

I have a lot of respect for mums who work and have children- especially single mums- (I salute you!.) There are many women who are called to climb the career ladder, who love the corporate lifestyle and thrive on juggling the 9-5 job with being a mummy. I also know that some mums need to go back to work for their sanity and some who financially have to, so none of this is written in judgement of you.

My Prince and me…

However, for me and my personal life journey, I knew that motherhood was more important than career success and I knew I needed to find a better plan if I was to become the mummy I wanted to be. I decided I wanted to be as present in my child’s life as I could possibly be; I wanted the freedom to take him to the swings in the middle of the day, just because I could. I wanted to be the one to nurse him when he was sick, I wanted to be there when he walked for the first time, when he first said ‘ma-ma’, to take him swimming on a Monday when I would usually be grubbing behind my desk, and to just have the freedom to indulge in this little person.

I also wanted to be able to give him opportunities that I didn’t have such as send him to private school if we chose that was right for him, travel around the world with him so he understands different cultures and just how blessed he is with the opportunities we have in the western world. As well as all that I wanted to have more time with my wonderful husband to talk and be at my best, have time to get in shape and have lots of quality time instead of being stressed out with the politics of my work. Because of all these things I knew without a doubt that it was time for for me to walk away from the rat race as petrifying as this prospect was!

happiness.

I wanted to be my OWN BOSS. I wanted to get up when I felt like it, not have to stay late at the office, not have to answer email demands, worry about redundancies, feel those uncomfortable disapproving moments if I had to call to say I couldn’t come in as my son was sick, I didnt want to worry about money, I wanted to be able to retire early and enjoy life with my husband and my son…

So I made an 18 months plan and threw myself at it. My Goal date was that by July this year to create the life I have always dreamed of, I am pleased to say my resignation letter was handed in this year on June 17th one month early, and I truly do pinch myself all the time when I look at the life I have now compared to where it was 18 months ago.

Want to know how I did it and how you can too?!… look out for my next blog !

Love