May 2005
I used to have this dynamic career in the corporate world that brought me so much satisfaction. I would overcome challenge after challenge, day after day, nothing was impossible. And I thrived on this excitement for every time I achieved what had not been done before, I gave myself a pat on my own back. I attracted attention as I worked to impress and impress I did! How different life was back then….I am now mother to a gorgeous little baby girl, living in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. For the last almost 2 years of my life, since I got pregnant, I suddenly realised that my biggest challenge was yet to hit. Always the person who managed it all, pregnancy and motherhood totally threw me out of my comfort zone into the zone of complete insecurity.
>>Fast Forward >>
After graduating from the express course of hands-on parenting, I can safely say now that I feel comfortable being a mom. I can drive to the shops alone with my little one. I can stay home and care for us both alone without a hired maid and still be able to welcome Daddy home with a genuine smile. I can do so much on so little sleep, something I never thought possible.
Motherhood really surprises you.
However, I yearn for the corporate buzz and attention again. Yet as a woman in Asia, I have to choose if I wanted A, B or C. This decision has been sending me into dizzy twirls bimonthly and until today I am still undecided as to A, B or C. What has motherhood done to me ? Before, decision making was easy. Give me the facts. Analyse the situation. Calculate the risks. Decide.
But now……???
After spending a whole 2 years of not working in a corporate office, I do sometimes feel like I have dead brain cells lurking in my head. I talk baby talk, I make funny faces, I watch the most boring of TV. This, what I feel as a downward spiral of my intellectual capacity, has caused me to start looking for a job again. A real one. A respectable one.
But guess what ? I went for a few interviews, got offered some really great paying jobs (that would be at least a 5 figure salary), yet couldn’t bring myself to take any of them on.
My baby stopped me. Yes, she is that powerful.
I now wonder if deep down I actually knew what I’ve really wanted all along, and in effect, A, B or C was really just a simple decision. It was my alter ego playing tricks on my weaknesses.
Yes, we all have weaknesses.
Even you.
**************************************************************************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.
