Being a mummy, I truly know the value of time....

My whole reason for starting a business that gave me more time, was for a future family....

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is like saying 'I don't want to' - Loo Tzu

Rewind a few years, I had a successful business but spent so much time on the road, working evenings and weekends. Even when I then got in the door, I would spend more time answering client emails, booking appointments and placing orders. I knew this way of working didn't work around a baby and family. But, I also did not want to go back into employment, working for someone else. Yes, I would of got maternity leave, but I would of had to go back to work at some point, relying on childcare and wishing for the weekends and 5 weeks holiday a year. Its just not the life I wanted.

I earned good money with my business, but I was trading my time. So when I went on holiday I wouldn't earn and then would be playing catch up when I got home. I would also of had to go back to work 2 weeks after having our baby boy as being self-employed I couldn't of afforded anymore time off, with no maternity pay.

If I hadn't taken a risk to make a change, one of those scenarios would of been my future. Has it been hard work? YES. Have I wanted to give up at times? YES. Did I ever feel like it wasn't going to work for me? YES. But, the numbers don't lie - if you work at something consistently for a period of time, you don't have to HOPE that it is going to work for you, you can be safe in knowing that it WILL work for you.

I have just got home from a week long trip to Tenerife building business and because of this opportunity I was able to take my partner and our little boy. Jenson is now 6 months old, and his flight home was his twelfth flight since he was born!  These business related trips have included America, Denmark, Scotland and obviously Tenerife.  In 2 weeks time it is taking us to Miami & New York and then in April we go back to America again followed by Cancun and also to Marbella for a European convention.  I could never have envisaged travelling so much let alone getting paid for it but this is where this business can take you. I love that it doesn't matter where I am in the world, that I can have my baby with me and still make money as long as I have wifi. Whether it is at home on the sofa because we are tired, whether it's on a day out because we are going on an adventure, or whether we are in a totally different country altogether.

Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport - Unknown

Jenson on flight number 12

I would love EVERY woman I come into contact with to take a look at this opportunity, because being a Mummy I truly know the value of time, Time goes fast, way too fast, spend it doing what you love, with who you love. For me having the knowledge that I will never miss any part of him growing up and seeing all his 'firsts' is more valuable than anything that money can buy.

Love Emma xxx

Your SO lucky

I frequently get told I am lucky....well, YES I am lucky, but I created the luck I have. I believe absolutely anyone can do the same....

As I said before, when I first got introduced to this opportunity, I did not have a clue what I was doing. But, I was keen to learn and had a dream. A dream of long term freedom and the ability to create whatever life I wanted. To be able to live in whatever home, to be able to drive whatever car, to be able to travel wherever I wanted, to be able to chuck my shopping in the shopping trolley without looking at prices, to be able to have a family and provide the best....and ultimately the very best I could give, was to be able to give my TIME. This is a luxury we cannot buy.

We are taught, especially here in the UK, that we go to school, go to university, work hard and then work hard at whatever job we choose for 40 odd years, If as women, we want to have a family, we make a choice between having a career and having a baby, and often made to feel guilty for what we choose. This isn't the only way though,,,,what I have learnt over the last 3 years, is we need to work SMART. I now LOVE everyday showing other women especially how to work smart.

3 years ago, I got to work at something I thought in hind site would be easy to achieve my dreams....I was so wrong!! Here in the UK, we also are so closed minded when it comes to anything other than the 'norm'. I thought I had found an amazing opportunity, and that everyone else would see what I saw.....I was VERY wrong haha. 

I have heard the word NO, more than I could ever tell you, I have lost friends and family members, I have felt rejected, disheartened, like everything is going so wrong. I have been ignored more times than I remember. People would join, be excited and disappear, join and moan its too hard, join and say there friends were being horrible to them about it so they didn't want to do it anymore. I have heard every excuse in the book as to why people can't do this business, or even consider looking at it, and I too, have come up with every excuse of why I couldn't do it. One year in, I felt I was getting absolutely nowhere, so I was going to quit. I was just going to concentrate on building the business I already had.

I have no time, is the grown up version of 'the dog ate my homework'

January 2014 - one of the most significant times of my life. Alex and I were buying our first home, and just about to get the keys. On the same weekend, there was also an event with the business I had in my mind made the decision to quit. However, something was pulling me back, telling me I needed to go to this event....the option was, pick up our keys, and move in together. Or pick up the keys, leave Alex to move in and go to London on my own and see for one last time if I could make something of this business. Most people would of probably moved into their home, its such a monumental moment in life. I, however, found myself in London....

Something clicked, I can't tell you what.....I knew I had to give this business one last shot, but this time give it my absolute all. I knew I wanted to start a family, and I knew my current business wouldn't give me the life I dreamed and would be so hard to manage around a family. I am SO grateful everyday I got myself to that event (if your in my business, and reading this - that there, is the very power of events. You just don't know what a person will see/hear at an event and then go on to do afterwards)

The motto is.....Yes, I am lucky, but only because I never QUIT!!!

Winners never quit, and quitters never win - Vince Lombardi

I hope this blog has inspired at least one person never to give up on their dreams - just when you are about to give up, is usually just when something amazing is about to happen. Believe me, I know!

Love Emma xxx