If you are a stay-at-home wife or mom who wants to start creating artworks and build a career as an artist, designer, or creative entrepreneur, begin by telling your inner mind the very first affirmation: “I am an artist.” Let’s start taking baby steps towards that big goal that will transform you from a stay-at-home wife or mom to an artist the world is ready to know. Tell yourself, “I AM AN ARTIST.” Let it be loud enough for your ears to hear and your mind to take in.
Start creating one artwork every single day. As a stay-at-home mother, I always thought I didn’t have time. But then I realized that if I kept saying I didn’t have time, I would never find time to do anything in life. So instead, I started telling myself, “I will find time for the things I want to do in my life.” This was the first mindset shift I made, and along with it, I slowly figured out areas in my daily house chores that I could tweak to bring in more time for the things that would help me achieve my big goals.
Here are a few things I did to create more time:
- Ask for help: I asked my husband to help with some household tasks so I could focus on cooking and taking care of our baby. He helped with the laundry and cleaning the dishes. This spared me some extra time that I usually spent in the kitchen.
- Decrease cooking time: Being an Indian wife, I generally cooked meals three times a day. Initially, I enjoyed cooking because that was my only job. But when I had a baby to care for and needed to start learning and working towards building my career, I wanted to focus more on career-building activities than spending time in the kitchen. So, instead of cooking three full meals a day, I started cooking for two days at a time. If I cooked two meals for one day, I made sure to cook extra for the next day too. This saved me a good amount of time, and I only had to cook full meals every other day.
- Early daycare: This was really hard for me. I had to take my little one to daycare when he was about 1.5 years old. Being an Indian mother, I was not used to this culture of early kindergarten. But living in Germany, the early daycare system helped me find time to learn the language. I went to language school right after sending my baby to the ‘KITA’. Although I sent him to KITA at an early age, after language school and once back home, I made sure to spend quality time with him throughout his first five years. I wanted to be there for him, and both my husband and I made sure to talk to him, play with him, and stay creative with him.
