Tag Archives: flexibility

How Much Are You Willing to Accommodate?

There has to be a balance between organization and rigidity and flexibility—especially in business. If you have been bending over backwards to please and accommodate customers and clients, and starting to feel resentful or wondering if it is actually a benefit to your home business, you might have to evaluate just how accommodating you want and need to be. While your own personal working style and comfort-level around accommodating customers will come into play, there are some general guidelines for helping you to choose what you should and shouldn’t do for your customers. For starters, think about the company or … Continue reading →

The Benefits of Improvising

All the planning and care in the world will not ward off the need for improvisation when it comes to our home businesses. Fortunately, we can actually practice improvising and develop skills for being able to fly by the seats of our pants—without seeming like we’re flying by the seats of our pants… Have you ever been to an “Improv” show where talented comics and actors get up and improvise suggestions offered by the audience of from other sources? The entertainment comes from watching these individuals take a word or phrase and turn it into a skit or song on … Continue reading →

Reasons I am glad we homeschool: “Tardiness & Truancy”

Karri Weathers recently wrote about the concerns of tardiness and truancy in the education blog. She makes excellent points on how tardiness and truancy can disrupt the class, and that it is often the fault of the parents, especially in younger children. When my kids were in school, we usually missed a week or two each school year because our extended family was so far away, and so we would visit them when we could best afford. This may have meant traveling early before the rates went up for holiday season, or taking a random week, when flights would be … Continue reading →

Flexibility as a Medical Transcriptionist

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This blog is part of a series on transcription. If you haven’t read the other blogs in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all transcription blogs. The overwhelming reason for people wanting to work as a medical transcriptionist (and I have actually done a survey of students and working MTs on this subject) is so they can work at home. Some people want to work at home because they have beloved pets they don’t want to leave behind as they go to work every day (several people have told me that’s their … Continue reading →

Working From Home: You’re Not Really Working, Right?

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This past weekend, I got to go to my sister’s house and spend the weekend with her and her family. I had a ton of fun, and I kept thinking, “I’m so glad I have a flexible job that allows me to do this.” I had post-dated blogs so that this blog would be kept current while I was gone, I finished up the other freelance work that I had to do, and in the end was able to take four days off in a row without touching work even once. It was a great feeling. As I was leaving, … Continue reading →

Be More Flexible With Your Time

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It can be hard when you are trying to develop a fitness schedule to know how much rest is enough and how much rest is too much. In fact, if you read a lot of our blogs here, we offer a variety of different advice because different things work for different people. Another important reason to be flexible about your time and your workout is because sometimes, the more intense the workout, the more recovery time you need. Understanding Recovery Time Recovery time is the time that begins after your workout and lasts until your next workout. Recovery time is … Continue reading →

Spring Forward to Action: Put Your Best Foot Forward

As I mentioned Wednesday in: What Are We Doing?, we’re focusing on endurance this month and today is our second day of the official Spring Forward to Action plan and since I’m working on endurance, here’s what my workout plan for today looks like: 30 minutes on the treadmill at a comfortable 2.7 pace – this is my warm-up for the day Roller skating for fun – 30 minutes or so 20 minutes of yoga – always a great way to get the body and the mind in sync in the morning Okay, that was the plan for putting my … Continue reading →

Are You Taking Full Advantage of Freedom and Flexibility?

One of the chief “pluses” people who run their own home businesses claim is the ability to have flexibility and freedom in their work–freedom to set their own schedules, spend time with family and children, and work in an environment that feels comfortable and inspiring. Now that you are running your own home business (or seriously contemplating getting one started), are you taking full advantage of all that potential for freedom and flexibility? It can be tough to “un-train” ourselves after years and years of working more traditional jobs. Jobs where we had fixed hours, or fixed responsibilities or had … Continue reading →

How Well Can You Adjust to Changes?

Even for those of us who don’t think of ourselves as naturally flexible and resilient people, it’s amazing how parenthood and family life can bring out a whole new side to our personalities and help us actually develop more flexibility. And, what parenthood doesn’t do for us in the flexibility department, running our own home business just might… It is said that change is inevitable and that trying to get things to stay the same just makes things worse. But, that doesn’t necessarily make it easier for us. Running a business, however, can be a sea of constant change. It … Continue reading →

How Many Ways Can We Solve This Problem?

Teaching problem-solving skills is one of the challenges of parenting. If we are to send competent, capable adults out into the “real world,” they need to be able to face life’s difficulties and solve problems. One tool for teaching kids to be good problem-solvers is to try to identify at least three different ways to solve a problem that presents itself. Helping kids understand that problems can be looked at from different angles and that there may be more than one possible “solution” is a great way to approach coaching problem-solving. You can even make a game out of it … Continue reading →