This is a true story.

All my life, I’ve never done backups. I’ve never needed to. Whenever I worked for an office, the office had an IT person who was in charge of that. On the home front, the Hubs is in charge of that. If I lose my wish list of shopping from DVF, BCBG and Double C, he is so busted. However, we’ve both been struggling of late to just stay awake, let alone move the list of things to do to, you know, progress in life, that we tripped.

This is how it happened.

Week 1 – It occurred to me that I’d been working almost 3 months now and without any IT support, I could be in serious trouble should anything happen to my computer. You know how T1 practises her magic Harry Potter spells? YOU NEVER KNOW.

Week 2 – I alerted my bosses and they advised me to get a hard drive immediately. So I got the Hubs to get the external hard drive immediately. He did.

Week 3 – We told ourselves we’d do it over the weekend because the down time it would take to transfer files meant work down time for me and everything was URGENT on my desk. So we waited till the weekend. It also meant more time to do it since the only time we can really do anything productively is after the kids are in bed.

Week 4 – The computer hard drive died just before Week 4 began. Panic and LOTS of crying. Blame. Guilt. Regret. Tears. Stress. You name it.

Week 5 – Hard Drive is at selected Data Recovery Centre short listed from a list. They gave a high quotation (RM 4,000) yet no guarantees. I was helpless. After lots chasing, phone calls and frustrations, I accepted that I would never see my files again. Cried. Cried again. Cried to sleep. Prayed. Prayed hard. Hated Data Recovery people.

Week 6 – They still couldn’t tell me if my files could be recovered. But if I paid RM 6,000, they could put my case on the express train. I’d already lost a week and had started to do my work all over again. Depression set in.

Week 7 – Data Recovery Centre people called to tell me they’d recovered my files! I didn’t show an OUNCE of excitement. I’d already been stabbed and had already accepted they’d died but contractually, I had to pay them and I guess I should be happy because my girls photos are back, which was the most important thing.

SO.

I do backups every day now. It’s been a hard lesson. That money could have gone towards my Chanel bag, damn!

MA-FU-LAT!!!

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.

She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.

A beautiful life without limits.

If you wish to learn some tools to propel your life forward guaranteed, be brave enough to make contact as her life's purpose is to build people. She operates through a discovery call after which she will commit to helping you. Or not.

Most lose out on an opportunity because they are afraid they would be sold to, conned or whatever fear resides in their brain without even trying. And that's on them.

Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.