There is this particular episode of Dynasty drama series that not only caught my attention but stuck to my memory since over a year ago. This series is one of those that inspires me a lot as an entrepreneur, I think I might just watch it once again.
In that episode, Blake Carrington who acted as a business tycoon was telling her daughter Fallon Carrington who just got married to start her own family.
In his words, Fallon, you have started lagging behind in your business life, most women are like that once they start having their own family. First they start by missing calls, late respond to email and gradually they could not longer keeps up with all their appointments.
Blake's words hit me deeply as I was pregnant at that time and I wouldn't want to lose my game because I'm Making a family. I could see from Fallon's reactions to his father that those words sounded like bitter pills for her to swallow.
I said to myself, I will create a balance between my family, my work life and my writing here on hive. During my pregnancy, I could keep the balance to some extent but when this little man arrives it becomes a whole new ball game. I just knew I could only try but my time will never be the same again.
Taking care of a child requires a lot of time, attention and energy that no matter how I try to balance things, I haven't been as effective as in my pre-mom era and this made my account continue to grow at a very slow pace. I could no longer have myself to me, the way I use to. I use to enjoy spending hours learning, reading, writing and doing research on any topic of my choice. But these days, the hours of the day seem so short, before I could say jack a whole day is gone into the tin air.
The sad news is that we have got no time and only a few realize before it is too late.
There are times we have nothing valuable to engage in but have so much time to kill and there are times we have so much to do but find time not to be our friend. I think this is my story during my pre hive and my hive days
I can still remember my pre-hive life when I used to have so much time at hand without having anything to do with it. Those days my business wasn't that demanding. Once I have stock, it is very easy to attend to my customers without our whole transaction taking so much of my time. I hate anything that stresses me, so I made sure my business was arranged in this way, so that I could have more time to engage in other stuff. But I used to be very idle while waiting for my customers to come by. As I hadn't figured out what productive thing to do.
Because of this, two years ago, when I found hive I had so much time to kill around, doing things like, commenting, deep diving the ecosystem, learning, writing and making friends. It was really really fun.
If there is something I'm not spending enough time to do right now is definitely my hive activities. I miss that time I used to have so much free time to kill around here but not anymore, no matter how much I try. I believe that When my baby grows older and starts school I might start having a little more time again but, certainly, I may never be as free as my pre-mom's life.
This is my response to this week's hive Naija weekly topic and I hope that I meet up on time before the countdown expires.
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