The Ultimate Life Hack

Here's a productivity and feel-good hack:

Get a job in tech.

Have 2 kids.

Realise no one will hire you because you have two kids.

Start a business because you have no choice.

Have just one more kid, 3 times.

That's five kids.

Don't take maternity leave, because it's simply not possible. Make sure it happens five times.

Make a habit of working whilst breastfeeding. Phones and iPads ftw.

Keep running your business.

Bribe your husband to come onboard.

Stick you finger up to the system and decide to home educate your eldest child. Then the rest of them.

Bring your kids on travel and to conferences.

Heck, make it go global, it'll be fun.

Never leave home without your laptop.

Accept that your phone is often your only way to get work done, there's always a kid on the other arm.

Take a break from your business, and promise yourself you'll take time off.

Don't take time off.

Accept a job offer.

2020 happens.

Start strength training.

Also, start writing and commit yourself to weekly publishing.

It'll be fun, you say.

Get itchy feet with your job and leave.

Another job lands your lap, and accept.

Cause why not.

Move house and completely renovate your house.

Spend lots of money.

Whilst your husband has a double-hip operation.

Get frustrated with job.

Rage quit.

Become a carer for your mother.

Start to crumble a bit.

Discover a child of yours is Autistic + ADHD.

Discover you are also Autistic + ADHD.

Then holyshit, discover all your kids are amazingly neurodivergent.

See the world from a completely different perspective.

Hate the world.

Go back to running your business because sometimes life throws you curveballs.

Process the worst anxiety and autistic burnout quietly, for 1 month, then 2, then 12, 15 months.

Double down on audaciousness and the belief of building something different.

Experience the joy of creating.

Keep that writing side gig for 5 years and 700 posts later.

Find that turning point from burnout.

Discover your kids are no longer babies. Two are now adults and are mostly not around.

The younger ones are pretty easy to please and cause no trouble.

Discover that the strength training means you are now strong.

Survive burnout.

Love the world.

And see how good it feels to be in a better place.

That's it, that's the hack.

Life is tough, but it's ultimately good to be alive.

Enjoy it while you can.

And spend quantity and simple time with your kids. No extravagance is needed. Just lots of time living life.