I think I've been away from a corporate job for so long that I've become delusional.

I was complaining that my numbers aren't where I want them to be, but then I remembered...

But how many hours do you work in a corporate job ??

If you were like me 15 years ago, you worked around 14 hours a day, sometimes more.

I would work through my lunch break and past 5 pm to avoid the traffic and head back at 8 pm, sometimes later.

With this in mind, it's miraculous that my business is not where I want it to be....When I've only put in a few hours a WEEK, yes, a week, over the last 9 months?

Yet, my blogs have still generated enough income to pay my husband and me a decent salary, cover our trips, and help us save. It's kind of ... amazing O_O

This was the kind of freedom I only DREAMED about in 2010.

Seeing as I was willing to work 70-80 hour workweeks in my corporate job, I am happy to start working more on my business once I return from Ireland.

We fly back to Malaysia next week. And I am making arrangements for someone to help out a few hours a day with little Niamh (my daughter), so I can FOCUS.

(Although not affordable for locals, childcare here still costs less than USD200 a month, which is affordable if you own blogs that earn in USD... Fellow parents, please start a blog, at the very least it can pay for childcare!)

I am really, really looking forward to it!

My plan :

1- Find good topics to write for Pinterest

2- Write them, add affiliate links

3- Learn more about Flipboard and Facebook traffic

4- Create a few digital products

5- Repeat

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I'll keep it simple because simple has always worked for me, and most importantly, I will take action and put in the hours to achieve the results I want.

Less talking, more action, or in my case, holidaying, more action.

I think I may have taken this whole work-life balance a bit too far and not worked much over the last 12 months, ha!

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ADDITIONAL SIDE NOTE

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I couldn't put it down, and it made me feel much better about my life O_O

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That's all from me today; thank you for reading!

Aisha Preece from Outandbeyond.com​

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PPS: Here are some recent photos from our trip to Connemara and Kylemore Abbey! We took Nimah hiking up windy Diamond Hill!

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