Be Inspired Naturally

August, you were a bit of everything. 🤍

Cold winter weekends and sick kids. Teenagers collecting old mowers because apparently that’s a thing we do now. 😂

There were family beach days, a couple of escapes to the beach with my horse (one significantly more successful than the other 🫣), and I even pushed myself outside my comfort zone and went along to a networking event… and actually really enjoyed it.

August was also the month I finally started showing up properly here again.

I’ve spent far too long thinking about what I should post, chasing trends and trying to come up with the perfect idea only to post nothing at all.

This month I’ve just started creating again. Sharing the products, the cleaning, the everyday stuff, unpolished and not perfect. And it feels good, more right and inspiration is flowing again.

Meanwhile, Optimate Floor Cleaner quietly took out the title of August’s biggest seller.

And just like that, winter sport is done too. My netball season finished and Noah’s football finals run came to an end, which has suddenly handed me back FOUR evenings a week.

Honestly… what do people even DO with four free evenings?!

Here’s to September. 🌸

I get it. $24 for a bottle of multipurpose cleaner can sound expensive. 👀

Especially when you can walk into the supermarket and grab a ready-to-use bottle for a few dollars.

But the part that’s easy to miss is that Supre Multipurpose Cleaner is a concentrate.

That 1L bottle makes 10–20 x 500ml spray bottles, depending on the strength you mix it.

So instead of comparing $24 to the price of ONE supermarket spray bottle, we need to compare it to the cost of buying 10–20 of them.

And suddenly that upfront price looks very different. 👆

It’s one of the reasons I’m such a big believer in looking at cost per use, rather than just the number on the price tag.

Plus, there’s something pretty satisfying about refilling the same spray bottle over and over instead of buying another one every time it runs out. 🌿

Be honest… have you ever looked at the prices of some of the concentrates and thought “HOW MUCH?”

12 Years!

Last month my second son turned 13, which means we officially have TWO teenagers in the house. 😳
Apart from making me wonder how on earth that happened so quickly, it made me realise it was over 12 years ago that I started Be Inspired Naturally.

Back then I was at home with two little boys, looking for a way to make some extra income while still being home with them.

I was also starting to question some of the products I was using around our family.
I still remember watching one of the boys sucking on the side of the bath after I’d cleaned it with bleach that morning and thinking...Surely there has to be a better option.

That’s what eventually led me to Tri Nature. 🌿
Fast forward 12+ years and A LOT has changed.
Those two little boys are now teenagers. There’s another child, jobs outside the business, horses, sport, a house that is absolutely not always clean and approximately 47 things happening at any given time. 😂
But somehow, through all of that, Be Inspired Naturally has stayed.
And so have these products.
Not because I’m particularly good at remembering to post on Instagram. Clearly. 😂
But because after more than 12 years of using them, I still genuinely think they’re bloody good.
I love when someone tries something for the first time and comes back with:
“Okay... you were right. This stuff actually works.”
I love when someone messages me asking, “What do I use for this?”
And I probably get a little too excited showing people all the weird and wonderful ways I’ve discovered to use these products over the years.
For me, it’s still pretty simple.
We’re all buying laundry powder, dishwashing liquid, bathroom cleaner, body wash and all the other everyday things anyway.
So if I can choose products that genuinely work, last an incredibly long time, are Australian made and help me make some better choices around our home, I’m going to.
12+ years later, I’m still here.
Still using them every day.
Still recommending them.
Still running this little business around everything else life throws at me.
And I’ve actually got a lot I want to show you. 🌿

Lately it feels like all I’ve done is work and keep everyone alive.

Some seasons of life are simply about riding the waves and doing what needs to be done.

The past few months have been a combination of circumstances that created the perfect storm - covering leave at one job, starting another, heading into our biggest sale of the year… and, well, we all know being a mum is a full-time job anyway. Add a netball injury into the mix for a few extra appointments and suddenly there was no room left in the calendar.

There were days when I didn’t have the time, or honestly, the mental space, for creating social media for my business or even riding my horse.

So whenever we did find a small gap in the calendar, we stopped trying to do more and simply got outside. Sunrise walks, beach afternoons, baking together, feeding the horses, chasing rainbows and soaking up the little moments that reminded us to slow down.

These photos are a little snapshot of that season.

Not a highlight reel. Just the moments that filled my cup when everything else felt a little hectic.

I’d love to know… what’s been filling your cup lately? 🤍

Mum ran out of time to post today so she told me to take the reins and post something.

I have no idea what I’m doing but I gave it a shot. She loves the Tri Nature products and you should try them too!

Did I do a good job?