It is all too common these days to hear parents (and even singles who are caught up in the rat race amongst others) say that they are just too busy. Everyone is busy. Honestly, how many people do you know who aren’t very busy? For me, only my grandparents! Or those retiree uncles and aunts. Even they have schedules playing golf and what not.

However, as busy as I am, I have decided that I no longer want to use this over-rated, cliched word anymore. Because I’m tired of hearing the word. If I really am busy, I will say I have to attend Tee’s swimming gala, then a birthday party, then to the library and then have dinner at a friend’s. Or I need to organise my home today and take T2 to the park.

I would like to learn how to verbalise my life rather than just say I’m busy. It’s exactly like when someone asks you, how are you? I’m OK. What does THAT mean? Some detail would be nice. And honestly, how many people really say, I’m not OK. It’s almost like we’re living in a robotic world where standard answers are given, which makes it pointless in asking those questions in the first place. Whenever someone asks me how I am, I also want to say it exactly as it is. And perhaps you may not want to know how tired I am (the truth) and if you don’t, then don’t ask. Right? If you don’t really care, don’t ask! Why pretend? Why follow the crowd of cliches?

Too often, I have neglected family and friends because I have two kids and know too many people. So even if I decide to catch up with everyone on a rota, like call 5 people each week ( for example), this already eats into my time. Time which I would rather spend with my girls as I already feel that I don’t have enough time with them. Life IS busy. There is banking to do, groceries to shop for, cars to service, fees to pay, errands to run, books to return, clothes to fix, watches to repair, dry-cleaning, dinner with family…….the list is endless. But if we do not make the effort to touch base with people every now and then, we will not know whether they are dead or alive.

Recently, an old friend of mine (whom I never keep in touch with because we both have 2 kids but we bump into each other now and again), her 5 year old child had a brain tumour. This made me feel awful as I had to find it out from another source. It is awful because no 5 year old should have to suffer like that. It is awful because the child is Tee’s age. It is awful because it is very real and could happen to Tee too. The moment something like that happens to you, you stop on your tracks and not only count your many blessings but reassess your life and decide how busy you really need to be.

If something tragic such as an illness or something else negative happened to you, would you be broadcasting it out to the world? Probably not. Likewise, we shouldn’t expect others to inform us too about their bad news, adding to the fact that they are already suffering, let alone make calls to inform the rest. If you are genuinely interested and care about a person, then you should be making the call to enquire how the person is. I should have been more in touch with my friend to know that her 5 year old child was just admitted for brain surgery.

Likewise, my brother is now in hospital but why should he tell the world? If enough people cared about him, they would know. And with this, I am referring to a particular someone of the same blood, who has hardly shown to take an interest in our lives. And because of that, I refuse to inform him.

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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.

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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.