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Childcare Options for Working Moms

Published by admin in WORK AT HOME on September 1st, 2011 | No Comments »

One of the advantages of running your own business is that you have flexible child care options. In fact, for many women, that is one of the big incentives for running their own businesses. When you are a working mom you have a lot of childcare options available; the key is to find the right fit for you and your family.
Depending on your business and the type of schedule that you keep, a nanny may be a great option for you. You can choose a live-in nanny or a live-out nanny, but with both situations your children will have consistent care that can be very flexible. On the other hand, you can always choose day homes or day cares. These are great solutions if you need childcare on a very regular basis with consistent hours.

However, many working moms don’t find the need for continuous childcare. Instead they might be able to work from a home-office, balancing work and family life. Inevitably, however there will be meetings or appointments when you need someone to watch your children. You can rely on family and friends to some extent, and that is great if you have the option. However, a more realistic choice might be to find someone who can care for your children on a drop-in basis.

Sometimes the best solution for working moms is to have a variety of childcare solutions organized. If you have regular monthly meetings, it is easy to line up a regular babysitter. However, you may be able to use a local teenager for evening appointments, or schedule things around your husbands schedule as another option. It is probably a good idea to have a few childcare options lined up for various situations and always plan in advance. A back up plan is always recommended, particularly when you have a very important meeting or a client that you must meet.

We always seem to see super-women on T.V., doing it all, raising incredible families and growing Fortune 500 Companies at the same time, but what’s behind all of that? How do they do that? Is it a special breed of women that are born with the secrets for balance? In The Milk Memos: How Real Moms Learned to Mix Business with Babies-and How You Can, Too (www.greatbooksandaudiobooks.com), Cate Colburn-Smith and Andrea Serrette put together their one-of-a-kind guide to balancing motherhood and work. It is based on actual journals kept by a group of IBM women during their visits to the company’s employee lactation room. Right away women responded, and the paper towel was eventually replaced by a series of notebooks, in which women offered one another advice and support on juggling work and a newborn. Based on the original notebooks, The Milk Memos is a heartwarming, encouraging (and often hilarious!) guide to working motherhood. You can find the Milk Memos on www.GreatBooksandAudiobooks.com.

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Stay At Home moms, Get Motivated For Success

Published by admin in WORK AT HOME on September 1st, 2011 | 1 Comment »

In today’s goal setting is taught as the first thing to do in achieving your dreams. So long as we don’t set our dreams to high we are taught we can reach them. Napoleon Hill said “Dream big dreams; Only big dreams have the power to move men’s souls”. Stay at home moms can get what the want out of life by setting their goals high and staying motivated.

Often we set our goals so low they become boring and mundane causing us to loose interest in them. They never really go away but they are put aside until later. Big goals and dreams motivate us to action. They cause us to take the extra step each day to accomplish them. Still there are those things in our lives that stop us from getting what we want out of life.

Procrastination will definitely kill your goals. We are all in one way or another guilty of procrastinating. Overcoming it can be a challenge in itself but in reality it is very simple. All you need do is ask yourself if what you are doing right now is moving you towards your goals or is it something that is keeping you from your goals. All stay at home moms have things that need to be done each day that are a part of life but do we keep doing those things when they are not needed. There are many distractions in life and things we would rather be doing than building a business and working towards our goals. It takes determination to fight through the distractions and to do what we know has to be done. By accomplishing the daily task that must be done you are pushing yourself one step closer to accomplishing your dreams. By putting those little things off until later you are putting your dreams to the side.

Procrastination can also come because of the faith you have in yourself and the goals you have set. If you do not believe they can be accomplished you can easily quit trying. If your goals are to small to actually matter you will also quit trying. Faith in yourself and in what you are trying to accomplish is the number one needed ingredient. You must have a strong desire to accomplish your goals, desire is just as important. if you have faith and desire there is absolutely nothing that can stop you no matter how big your dreams.

Setting big goals and pursuing big dreams can motivate you beyond what you thought you were capable of doing. Smaller more minor goals are just as important in staying motivated to reach your big goals. You smaller goals can be used to build upon your larger ones. You may have a goal of one day owning a thriving online business and you know certain things must be accomplished to reach that goal. An online business would need a blog to post your thoughts and build a customer base a long with a new website and a good size mailing list. Each one of these business building items are a goal in themselves and when accomplished push you one step closer to your ultimate goal. Each accomplishment will motivate you to push on to get the next item completed. As more and more of your smaller goals are completed you will know you are that much closer to accomplishing your dream.

While procrastination is the death of your dreams, action is the life of your dreams. Take the time to decide what you really want as opposed to what you are willing to settle for. Then write those dreams down and turn them into goals. Make them as big as you actually want them to be. Then write down what it will take to get what you really want and make these your smaller goals. Once that is don,e set the time aside each day to accomplish one of the smaller goals. Don’t put it off until later or let things get in your way. Go after each goal with a purpose, and you will soon find you are making a major accomplishment that will get you where you want to be. This will cause you to push even harder and to accomplish even more. Stay at home moms can get what they want out of life by simply staying motivated. Having big dreams can be the motivation you need.

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