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Home Based Work Provides Flexibility for Families

Home – based work carries with it all kinds of potential for a much more flexible lifestyle than working at a traditional job can offer. Often, home – based professionals are in control of the role that work plays in their lives, especially the amount of hours that they spend working and when those hours take place. If one or more of the people in a household are free to make choices about when and how much to work, the entire family can benefit. Home – based work can enable adults to pursue educational opportunities that they may not be … Continue reading →

When Changes Need to be Made in a Rush

I often advocate taking your time when it comes to research and problem-solving in your home business. I generally think that if we can slow down, take our time and do our homework we tend to make better decisions and choices and be less stressed about it. It is not always possible, however, to slow everything down and do a thorough investigation—sometimes we are forced to make changes and adjustments and we have do to it in a rush… To be fair, sometimes the quick decisions and changes turn out to be the best. Other times, it can just be … Continue reading →

So, You Think You Have a Plan?

I tend to cling to my planning and organizational skills. I imagine my role as a single parent has only served to increase my need to have a plan and a system for everything. Even while I understand this about myself, I have also lived long enough to realize that a big part of living life is learning how to adjust when the best laid plans go awry… I have not yet learned how to live entirely without a plan, but I have learned that family life and planning are only partially-compatible. There are unending surprises and adjustments that need … Continue reading →

Consider More Flexible Contracts

There is an impression that a contract has to be an iron-clad, rigid agreement between two parties. More and more—both in the business world and in other realms—people are looking for and expecting more flexibility in their contracts. Instead of trying to pin everything and everyone down to rigid rules and regulations, more people are looking for contracts that allow room and encouragement to change and expand. In your home business, you might consider how creating more flexible work agreements with our clients, customers, and vendors can help you grow your business and adjust to changing expectations. You might not … Continue reading →

Laptop, PC or Both?

Like many people, I have run the gamut working with all sorts of computers in the past twenty years. I cut my teeth on Macs, but had to learn to work on P.C.s at work with many different jobs. I have had to update and upgrade and wrestle with crashed hard drives and other mishaps. I have fallen madly in love with some computers and been a bit disappointed in others. With my home business, my computer really is my lifeblood—I could probably even say that it IS my office. A couple years ago, when I bought a new P.C.—it … Continue reading →

When it isn’t What You Expected

Let’s be honest, most of us entered parenting with some set expectations—we had an idea of what our child or children would be like, what family life would be like, and we probably even imagined what sort of parent we would be. It does not take long for most of us to get jerked out of our fantasies and into the real world and then we begin facing the fact that things are just not turning out as we expected… There are really only two things we can do when we are faced with discovering that life as a parent … Continue reading →

Do You Need to Get Out More?

One of the perks of working from the home business that many of us take advantage of is that we do not have to stay tied down to a desk or office. The home business tends to lend itself to more flexibility and motion. This being said, I know there are also plenty of us who are not getting out as much as we would like, or as much as we could… I will be the first to share my confession—when I first started my home business, I went out and about a great deal (maybe too much). I seemed … Continue reading →

It can be Hard Not Knowing

Uncertainty can be one of the most stressful realities in so many aspects of life–whether it is a health issue, finances, or our home businesses–not knowing what the future holds can be unbearable for some of us and just plain scary for others. What can we do to settle ourselves and cope with the fact that no matter how much planning we do, there are going to be those times when we just don’t know what is coming around the corner? Think of it this way–is there any possible way that you can get to a place where you are … Continue reading →

Kids who Can Sleep Anywhere

We talk so much about trying to get children to sleep and all the troubles that can be associated with bedtime and sleeping, that I thought it might be a good balance to talk about those OTHER children–those children who are champion sleepers, love to go to bed, and can sleep just about anywhere and under any conditions… You may not believe it if you have one of those more delicate sleepers, but such children really do exist. I know this first hand because my eldest daughter has been a champion sleeper since infancy. I remember being too green as … Continue reading →

“Where Are You Working Today, Mom?”

I have often written about how I have a tendency to have a self-directed and sometimes chaotic work-schedule. Because I have pieced together my work world to support my family life as a single parent, I definitely do not have a traditional 9-5 work life. For my kids, who have grown up around this arrangement, they are often asking me to clarify. It has kept them on their toes a bit as they have a tendency to ask me: “Where are you working today, Mom?” I work based from my “home office” but that doesn’t always mean that I am … Continue reading →