Happy New Year

What a great and extended break I had (I’ve missed you!).  You know what though?  I had a full on anxiety ball in my tummy last Tuesday.  It was the first day back to school for my daughter and first day back to work for me, both of us having had over 2 weeks of non-routine.  Ouch!

My friend Juliette (she’s a single parent too) was in the same boat and brought her son over for supper that evening.  We got talking about the pressure that single parents manage on an ongoing basis – the angst caused from having 100% responsibility for both parenting and provision.

I pondered with her what it must be like to have a second income come into my household for no extra time investment on my side.  Neither of us had ever experienced that because we’d single parented from pregnancy.  Like, what would it be like to know that all my earnings cover my home, bills, clothes and food anyway, but there’d be another person in the household to earn, say a minimum of £25,000 more?  What would we do with that?  I mean, it doesn’t need to go on essentials (because I have that covered) so it would just be for spending and for saving.  Imagine?

THEN we took that scenario a step further and questioned why it sounded too good to be true.  And we realized that the investment to have a 2-income household is the commitment to a co-habiting partner (or marriage if that’s your thing).

I thought about that for a bit – and decided that I’m more equipped to go out and earn that extra £25K myself.  So that’s my first ’09 goal.  Sorted.

This year we’re launching some out-of-this world programs to allow each of you to have more money, time and freedom month-by-month to the year end.  It’s going to be our Silver Success Circle debut – watch this space.