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The Best Time For Carving Out Your Amazing Family Life Is Now!

You can’t go back and change everything, but you can positively impact your future.

Maria Rattray
10 min readJul 5, 2020
Photo by Jeremiah Lawrence on Unsplash

The reality is that your life is much about the choices you make.

This is a deliberately provocative post. I crafted it for all of you who are in serious corporate ladder-climbing positions, that are so physically and mentally demanding that you would gladly trade having to get out of bed, for a life-threatening disease, (just for a few weeks), in order to become human again.

I’ve written this for all of you who haven’t done your homework on the EXACT amount of your impressive salary that you spend on commodities that SUBTRACT from the said salary.

It’s for all of you parents who have cried on the day when one of your offspring is, for the very first time, reading, or dancing, at assembly…and you couldn’t be there, because of a pressing meeting!

It’s for anyone of you plagued by guilt about leaving home before your kids wake up, and arriving home when they’re already asleep.

It’s for any of you, who, on a Saturday morning have sat on the sideline, catching up on your smart-phone business, and missed what the cheering was all…

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Maria Rattray
Maria Rattray

Written by Maria Rattray

Writer, author, teacher, fun-loving poet. Trying valiantly to make the world a better place. Helping you to guide the future. Find me at: https://ponmyword.com

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