Listening  to a podcast by a lady who was on a course I took a few years ago. She is a visibility coach now, hugely successful.7 figure sum successful. I am happy for her (I like her, she gave me discounted coaching at the beginning). Its more I'm looking to myself, I have started Airbnb and written a few short pieces that have been published in a National Newspaper. I wasn't paid for this but there are options to win vouchers if your piece is chosen at the end of the series. I have done another bit in my writer’s course but that was quite a while since I sent my last assignment in. I haven’t done the next one yet. I'm a bit stuck, my head is full. Before I was a lot better at researching a market and writing in the style they wanted but now I don't read enough either. I still have only done the first assignment in my proofreading course...I procrastinate too much and am petrified of being visible. Yet the two pieces which were published were very personal. I was still very aware of how they would come across to family members or those who knew whom I was writing about. I also sent in anon a blog post I wrote here about the probability of me not having any more children. I didn't want anyone I knew to know I had written it. I don't want to have the conversation with them about it. I am happy that I have a child, I don't know how well I would manage with more. I don't want to hear the suggestions of fertility treatment or weight loss. I don't want to be told that if I had made other choices that my life would be better. On paper anyway. So that my family could tell others what I am doing i.e. working at, being successful at. I am not boast worthy. Not a 7-figure earner like Stacey Sargison. I was on a parent’s council in a school and went to a meeting. A lady there presumed I was a teacher first but when I was chatting to her she realised who I was and said 'Oh, you don't work'. She did not mean it in a negative way, just that I wasn't regularly employed in a year-round, 9 to 5 set up. The way she phrased it was interesting though. See taking care of your home, child, volunteering your time to your school, community centre, fundraising for local causes, doing beach clean ups are not regarded as work. They are not quite valued. It's slightly taken for granted 'Sure it'll give her something to do’. I’m guilty of this too, the same people do an awful lot of this work and I take it a bit for granted that they will always do it.