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The idea of working at home is attractive, but the reality can be challenging. Fortunately, most of the challenges one faces can be managed with a little effort and forethought.

Our seventh and last post of our seven week mini course discusses how to avoid the Super-mom Syndrome while working at home. Have a look at our previous posts to get the complete 7 week mini-course.

This week we discuss: WORK AT HOME MOMS, AVOIDING THE SUPER-MOM SYNDROME

Many women in today’s society are concerned about their abilities to be a great mom. As any mother knows, it is tough to not compare yourself to others, and while one mom may be a fantastic caregiver, she will almost always find fault with her parenting styles and/or abilities.

She begins to feel stress about her duties as “mom,” “wife,” and “housekeeper.” The pressure to be the so-called “super mom” builds even more when she is a work at home parent, and adds “employee” to the list.

Working at home while raising children has become wildly popular with today’s families, as costs for childcare and commuting to work skyrocket. With more and more moms, and dads, entering the work at home field, the dynamics of the family as we know it are changing.

You might think the pressure to be a “super mom” would be less for those able to spend time at home with the children, but there are other things to take into consideration. For one, moms that work at home are probably still be viewed as the main caregiver, housekeeper, and organizer.

When spouses and other family members fail to contribute to the household, moms often take the burden of doing it all, often without complaint, because they feel the need to be that “super mom.”

This can be a dangerous trap for moms to fall into. While the family has clean laundry, an impeccably cleaned kitchen, a nice meal to come home to and money in the bank account, mom herself is falling apart. The key to keeping it together is keeping it in perspective. Moms who work at home may earn less than they did in the corporate world, but they have schedules that are more flexible and get to spend more time with their family.

To avoid overwork as a result of wanting to become a mom who does it all, it is important for mothers to remember what is important to them. Why was the decision made to work at home instead of in a traditional office?

Often the answers involve children, money, and flexibility. Getting raise her children, saving money on childcare, and having the flexibility for when children are sick are key ingredients in the work at home mom’s life. The best “super mom” is the mom who takes care of herself as much as she does her family. It is impossible to have the energy and patience to deal with young children, a messy house, or an unmotivated spouse if mom gets minimal sleep, or leaves little time to eat healthy and relax from the everyday stresses that come with parenting.

In addition, giving too much to others, becoming a “people pleaser,” is a sure way to enter a cycle in which moms give so much they eventually withdraw all help and resent those whom she actually bent over backwards to help previously.

When moms can learn to take care of themselves with the energy that they give to their families, they will be in the right frame of mind to prioritize the needs within the family dynamic. She can be the best mom for her family, while avoiding the trap and pitfalls of becoming a “super mom.”

Use these few tips and start to enjoy a more well rounded work at home career and lifestyle today. This was the last part of our 7 week mini course , get the complete 7 week series earlier in this blog.

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Many people dismiss the idea that we need to conserve water. After all, it’s all around us in lakes, rivers, streams and the seas, in the rain and snow that falls from the sky.

But consider the following statistics:

• – 97% of the earth’s water is salty or undrinkable due to contamination of some sort
• – 2% is locked in ice caps or glaciers
• – That only leaves 1% of the world’s water that is available for human consumption of which only a small percentage is found above ground or in the air
• – We need water for everything from our bodies to crops and animals. We depend on it for all our needs, personal, business, manufacturing, and community.
• – Our water supply is threatened everyday by deforestation and runoff from industry and toxic pollution
• – To make the problem ever worse, Federal policies have recently proposed to relax Clean Water standards
• – According to Global Green, 1.2 billion people, or almost 1 in 5 people worldwide, are without access to safe drinking water.
• – And, out of 191 nations in the world, 10 nations share 65% of the world’s water resources.

In developed countries we tend to take water so for granted that we let it run freely from the tap while we brush our teeth or over-soak our yards when we carelessly forget to turn off the sprinkler while many countries across the world don’t even have the basic access to safe drinking water.

It’s time that we realize water is a precious resource, and its imperative that we stop wasting it.

There are many simple things We can do:

1. Conserve Water at Home

There are also many things you can do to conserve water in your daily routine. In the bathroom you can install a low-flow toilet (which can reduce waste by 20%) or place a toilet dam in your toilet. What’s a toilet dam? It can be something as simple as a half brick or a bottle placed in your toilet tank to cut down the amount of water used with each flushing.

For your shower, install a low-flow shower head. This can save up to 2.5 gallons (up to 9 litres) of water a minute! Think of taking shorter showers, some people even turn the water on to get themselves wet, turn it off to lather up, then turn it on again to rinse. If you have to take a bath, only fill it one-third full, just remember that showering does use less water than bathing.

Don’t leave the water running when brushing your teeth, shaving, or washing your face.

In the kitchen we can conserve water usage by pouring a pitcher of water, perhaps with a filtering system like Brita, and put it in the refrigerator if you like your water cold, this saves you from running the water to get it cold. Consider installing a instant water heater rather than running the water to get it hot.

Don’t be wasteful with water. Don’t let it run down the drain. Whenever possible, reuse water. Waste water can be used to water plants or your lawn, for instance. You can install a water recirculation device, which can save up to 16,500 gallons (62,000 litres) of water a year. That’s a lot of water to save!

And guess what else? This translates into cold, hard cash. Don’t overlook simple things.

2. Use Care with Storm Drains

Have you ever considered that anything that gets washed down a storm drain goes directly to local creeks, rivers, and streams, and eventually to the ocean? Think about it, when water from your hose washes over your yard or sidewalk or driveway, it is carrying pollution along with it. Things like fertilizer, pet waste, yard and grass clippings, paints, pesticides and motor oil can all impact our waterways through storm drains.

3. Make Wise Food-Buying Choices

Did you know that irrigation of agricultural crops accounts for more than 70% of freshwater consumed worldwide. That is a huge percentage, particularly in light of the fact that 1 in 5 people don’t have access to safe drinkable water.

Farmers have options. They can switch to drip irrigation systems, which will result in a water savings of 30 to 70% while increasing crop yields. You have options too. Seek out and support local and organic farmers through the farmers markets. Farming organically has a huge impact on preventing global warming because of the 28 most commonly used pesticides, 23 are carcinogenic and end up in our water supply.

This may surprise you but another simple thing to do is eat less meat. It takes up to 100 gallons (380 litres) of water to produce one quarter pound of meat. Yes, that burger you ate at lunch required 100 gallons of water to produce. As a comparison, one ton of beef needs 15,000 tons of water to produce while a ton of grain needs only 1,000 tons.

To recap, here’s some Water Conservation Action Steps

• - Be careful about what you let wash down storm drains
• - Recycle motor oil properly
• - Buy non-toxic alternatives to pesticides
• - Dispose of pet waste in the garbage
• - Plant native bushes and shrubs
• - Water your lawn responsibly
• - Install a low-flow toilet
• - Install a toilet dam
• - Avoid unnecessary flushing
• - Check for toilet leakage
• - Install a low-flow shower head
• - Take shorter showers; fill the bathtub only one-third full
• - Don’t leave the water running when brushing teeth or shaving
• - Put drinking water in the refrigerator rather than run the tap
• - Install an instant hot water heater
• - Instead of using the sink disposal, compost!
• - Only run the dishwasher when it is full
• - Buy an energy-saving front-loading washer
• - Don’t let water run down the drain
• - Buy a water recirculator
• - Check for leaky faucets
• - Install flow restrictors
• - Buy from farmer’s markets
• - Eat less meat

Any and all of those activities listed in this report will help. The only thing that won’t help is if you sit back and do nothing. There are way too many people all over the world who don’t know, don’t want to know or just don’t understand the severity of the problem. Now that you do, it’s up to you to take action. Whether you are 20 or 80 our future and the future of our children and grandchildren depend on it.

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Learning to be simply happy means knowing exactly what is important to you in your life.

In beginning the process of living simply happy and debt-free requires that you identify and analyze your values. Values are the things you strive for in your life and they should be the beacon of light to you in everything you do. The values in your life shine before you and light your path to reach your goals.

Once you have identified your values, it is much easier to establish and reach your goals. As you define your values, think about what you really want to do or have. Maybe independence, security, and spirituality are important to you. Perhaps power, authority, and adventure are your values.

Be honest with yourself and clarify your values. Once you recognize your values:

• - determine if you are living the life you want to live based on your values
• - assess how your goals and actions in life align with your values
• - determine if you are effectively prioritizing your actions
• - think about things in your life that take you further away from your values
• - consider any hindrances that prohibit you from living your life based on your personal values

Now that your values are crystal clear to you, begin to live your life today based on those values. You need to stay focused on your values and keep them firmly in your mind as you determine your goals. Let your values direct your path and your actions towards a better life.

Many people never take time to truly establish goals for their lives. They either don’t believe it’s important or they don’t see the point in it. Some people don’t really know what they want out of life while others are afraid to set goals in fear of not achieving them. Some people don’t even know how to begin setting goals because they’ve never given it any consideration at all.

But setting goals is what provides you with the roadmap to achieving the things that are really important to you. Establishing a goal drives you to a destination and reaching your destination helps you establish new and better goals. It’s a lifelong process of deciding where you want to go, creating plans to get there, and establishing new goals once you arrive.

Reaching your goals is a fulfilling and satisfying experience. It gives you the confidence and motivation to move forward. It also gives you the satisfaction of knowing that you have accomplished an important milestone in your life while holding true to your personal values.

What could be more rewarding!

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In our daily pursuit to simply live happily and debt free it is imperative to firstly determine where we are currently. You will recognize the need to make certain changes and you can then begin the process of assessing and evaluating your current situation to better your financial future. For financial freedom you need to have your Values, Goals and Priorities aligned.

Here is two examples that will help clarify how you can better assess your own values, goals, and priorities.

Scenario One:

Imagine your goals are:

• – To have the biggest house in the most prestigious neighborhood of the city
• – To own the newest, sleekest, fastest model of car imaginable
• – To have a huge array of material possessions to showcase your success
• – To make lots of money or even using credit cards to acquire these possessions
  

So there for your values are:

• – material possessions
• – money
• – prestige
• – personal recognition
• – elevated social status
  

You are totally immersed in achieving your goals based on your values, and you have prioritized your life to attain them. You are sacrificing quality time with your family and neglecting your own personal mental and physical health. You are even going as far as to maximize your credit cards and take on additional debt to buy the things you desire.

Your priorities are based on spending every possible minute accomplishing your goals to amass fortunes, and stockpiling your possessions, at the cost of ignoring the other aspects of your life.

Scenario Two:

Now imagine your goals are:

• – To being debt-free and financially independent
• – To provide for the things your family needs
• – To take care of your own personal and spiritual needs
• – To spend quality time with family and friends
  

So there for your values are:

• – independence
• – family
• – financial health
• – peace and tranquility
• – high quality of life personally and spiritually
  

Your goals and priorities are based on making a living at a job where you can produce a comfortable income, investing your money wisely for financial independence, affording time for family and friends, and allowing time for exercising, meditating, or other activities to enrich your personal and spiritual life.

In the two examples above, the goals, values, and priorities are well-aligned. Although you may not agree with any one scenario, you can see that each person is focusing on the things that are important to them.

However, the majority of humanity today work an exorbitant amount of time to make money to buy lots of material possessions – and you are even going into serious debt to make it happen too.

So this tells us that:

• – Your goals, values, and priorities are totally out of alignment.
• – You have abandoned your own personal goals and values to live a life that is fraught with stress, anxiety, and distress.
• – You are madly working toward goals that are in total conflict with the things you hold near and dear to your heart and your life.
• – You have sacrificed the life you desire for the life you have.
• – You are living someone else’s life!
  

Based on this:

• – Are you happy? No.
• – Is this the life you want to live? No.
• – Is it the life you are living? Yes.
• – Does it have to be this way? No.
• – Can you change and redirect your life? Absolutely!
• – Can you overcome obstacles to get there? Definitely!
  

If you are interested in being simply happy and debt-free, then it’s time for you to examine your current situation to create the life you desire. It’s time for you to make the changes that will lead to happiness and a better quality of life.

You need to stand up for yourself and what you value in life should now be your mantra and your passion! You CAN make it happen.

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The idea of working at home is attractive, but the reality can be challenging. Fortunately, most of the challenges one faces can be managed with a little effort and forethought.

Our sixth post and second to last of our seven week mini course discusses how to keep our kids occupied and entertained when we need to work at home. So, grab the RSS feed from this blog not to miss the complete mini course. Have a look at our previous posts too.

This week we discuss: KEEPING THE KIDS OCCUPIED WHEN YOU ARE WORKING

Being a work at home parent isn’t easy, but there are many rewards. First (and foremost) is the time you get to spend with your children. Granted you are working, but you are still raising your children by being there for them during your workday.

However, as wonderful as it is being a work at home parent, it’s not as easy as some may think. There are constant interruptions to deal with, the sounds of children fighting, or the disruptions caused by loud horseplay.

While some may begin why they decided to work from home when they have to begin dealing with these challenges, there are a few simple ways to keep sane and productive. Following are a few suggestions for helping your children stay occupied while you try to make your clients happy:

Give them some entertainment. What sort of entertainment your child will prefer varies greatly depending on their age and their ability to remain focused on one task. Some good choices include movies, video games, educational television, coloring books and other self-sufficient art projects. Playing board games or cards with siblings work well, and if they’re old enough, let them run around outside in the yard or ride their bike up and down the street.

Make compromises with your children. While bribes are not the answer, offering to provide your child with rewards for good behavior while you’re working is a good idea. Studies show children will respond better if you use positive reinforcement instead of threatening a consequence should they act up.

In other words, it is better for the parent to offer a trip to the ice cream store after dinner instead of threatening to take away toys and/or other things special to the child.

Establish a time for peaceful activities. Schedule a time of the day when the television and radio are off and when playtime means finding a quiet activity. Make it a routine occurrence. Draw the blinds and eliminate any distractions.

Examples of peaceful activities include reading, writing, playing with puzzles, coloring, or just playing quietly. Quiet toys such as building blocks are great for “quiet time.” A nap may even be in order. Take advantage of community resources. Many are hesitant to use help when it comes to taking care of their children, but community programs are there for a reason. Enroll your child in a fun summer camp or in a sports program. Girls Scouts, the YMCA, and the Boys and Girls Club are good ideas as well.

There are certain work at home jobs and careers that are quite impossible to work if there are small children at home. Such jobs include telemarketing, telephone customer service, and certain art disciplines since as painting.

In addition, depending on your child’s age, or your personal ability to deal with distractions, you may have a hard time being accurate with detail-oriented jobs such as bookkeeping, writing, and proofreading. In these cases, finding an in-home sitter, parent’s helper, or outside daycare may be the best option for you or your kids.

Use these few tips and start to enjoy a more well rounded work at home career and lifestyle today. Join us again soon for our last part of our 7 week mini course next week.

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The idea of working at home is attractive, but the reality can be challenging. Fortunately, most of the challenges one faces can be managed with a little effort and forethought.

Our Fifth post of our seven week mini course discusses how we can combine Parenting while working at home. So, grab the RSS feed from this blog not to miss the complete mini course. Have a look at our previous posts too.

This week we discuss: PARENTING WHILE WORKING AT HOME

One of most important aspects of parenting is properly bonding with your child. Many work at home parents stress this to family and friends when the decision is made to raise their children instead of maintaining a job outside the home.

Studies have shown that children are most impressionable between birth and three years of age, and that by age three, they have learned whether they can trust others, including their parents. The bond that is created during this time is the foundation for all other relationships that will be forged during a child’s life.

However, there can be some serious consequences for both parent and child when they are each constantly surrounded by the other. These should be taken into consideration when deciding if working at home is for you.

While these situations may be rare, they do happen. The can also be avoided with some creativity on the part of the work at home parent. Here is a short list of things that can result from spending too much time with your children, and how both mom and child can prevent them:

For the child:

Being spoiled: Children surrounded by only one parent (and no peers) may become accustomed to wanting only that parent around. Making sure your child spends ample time during the evening and on weekends with children and the parent not working at home. This will help ensure that the child’s develops a healthy concept of relationships and sharing.

Lack of social skills: Some work at home parents mistakenly don’t take time to expose their children to outside activities such as play groups. Scheduling a day off, or a few hours each week, and exposing your child to other children and adults will help them learn to interact with others before they reach school age. At age 3, it may be appropriate to enroll the child in preschool, to ensure a well-rounded social and learning environment to meet the child’s growing needs.

For parents:

Loss of feeling of “self”: It’s very easy for those who parent full-time to feel like they don’t know themselves anymore. A parent may believe he or she is defined only as a parent, spouse, student, employee, housekeeper, or handyman. It is important for everyone to maintain their identity by remembering to indulge in their needs on occasion. A night out with friends, or a hobby performed away from home could make one feel like a full person again.

Sadness or depression: Lack of adult contact and the struggle to manage both work and home life at the same time may lead some into a deep sadness. This is more apparent with those who infrequently leave the house, or work all day in their pajamas.

There are, of course, some for whom spending the day in p.j.’s is a dream come true! Dressing up and spending some time out of doors goes a long way toward feeling like a functioning part of society. These are serious aspects to consider for the work at home parent, and while most parents don’t run into these problems, it is important to educate others about the risks of them occurring

Use these few tips and start to enjoy a more well rounded work at home career and lifestyle today. Join us again soon for the 6th and second last of our 7 week mini course next week.

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United States households alone are responsible for 21% of the global warming pollution that occurs in the world. This is more than the entire global warming output of the United Kingdom. It is clear we are not doing a very good job at energy conservation. Yet energy-conscious families can reduce their emissions by two-thirds with some simple choices.

1. Turn Off Lights and Appliances

The easiest way to start conserving energy is to turn off lights, appliances, computers, televisions, and gadgets, when not in use. We are spoiled. We have such abundance that we can waste it. Most of us have gotten out of the simple habit of switching off a light when we leave the room. Our grandmothers and always turned off the lights and would be horrified if we didn’t. They did it for reasons of money but there was wisdom in their penny-pinching ways. We are blessed to have, for the most part; plentiful and cheap sources of energy which has led us to take it for granted and over-use it.

2. Adjust Your Thermostat

Next, consider adjusting your thermostat. Set your thermostat to 68 degrees during the day and turn it down to 55 degrees at night. For each degree you turn down your thermostat, you save up to 5% of your heating costs. Grandma would be proud—and the earth will thank you, too.

3. Replace Light Bulbs

One excellent way to create huge savings in energy and money is to replace your current light bulbs with Compact Florescent Bulbs or CFBs. A CFB is four times more energy efficient than an incandescent bulb, and it will provide the same lighting. If you choose to replace 3 of your frequently used light bulbs with CFBs, you can prevent 300 pounds of carbon dioxide from going into the air—and save $60 a year. That is a huge savings for such a small action. CFBs cost a bit more upfront, but they are extremely long lasting. All you have to do to realize how inefficient traditional light bulbs are is touch one. It’s hot, right? Therein lays the problem—they put out more heat than light. This is where CFBs come in. If your idea of a florescent light bulb is the old tubes that buzzed, never fear. The new CFBs are a much different thing completely. They now produce the same kind of warm light you love from incandescents, and they use much less electricity. This, in turn, means lower electric bills and less global warming pollution.

4. Purchase Green Power

Look into purchasing green power. Many local utility companies are providing this as an option for its customers. Currently, more than 50% or power companies in the United States offer green power as an option. If you live in an area where retail electricity is allowed, you can buy your green power from an alternative source. If you buy energy through a regulated utility, many of these companies offer green energy and have graduated rates to accommodate it. You’ll pay a premium for purchasing all green power. Then there is generally a middle of the road option which is a little cheaper and is a combination of green power and traditional power. Or you can stick with your basic bill. But now that you are aware of the perils of global warming, aren’t you willing to pay just a few pennies more a day to help prevent it?

5. Buy Offsets

Or, you can buy offsets. What this means is that you are paying someone to reduce or remove global warming pollution. If you want to buy 5 tons of carbon offset, the seller then guarantees that 5 fewer tons of carbon dioxide will go into the air. This is a great option for those who have already reduced their greenhouse emissions through, say, the tips in this report, but wish to do more. By buying offsets, you can get your impact down to zero, and that is a lovely number when dealing with global warming. Just think how much closer we’d be to solving the problem if everyone got their impact down to zero.

To recap, here the Energy Conservation Action Steps

• Turn off appliances and lights

• Adjust your thermostat

• Close your drapes at night

• Replace incandescent light bulbs with Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

• Take the CFB pledge at Environmental Defense and email it to your friends.

• Use natural daylight when possible

• Purchase green power

• Buy offsets

Any and all of those activities and others listed in this report will help. The only thing that won’t help is if you sit back again and do nothing. There are way too many people in this country and others who don’t know understand the parameters of the problem. Now that you do, it’s up to you to take action. Whether you are 20 or 80 our future and the future of our children and grandchildren depend on it.

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The idea of working at home is attractive, but the reality can be challenging. Fortunately, most of the challenges one faces can be managed with a little effort and forethought.

The fourth post of our seven week mini course discusses how we need to deal with setting boundaries between our business hours and those around us. So, grab the RSS feed from this blog not to miss the complete mini course. Have a look at our previous post too.

This week we discuss: BOUNDARY SETTING

Those who have never worked at home aren’t always aware of the work that is involved in being self-employed. Some may have even known a business owner (or two) who lazily sat home, reading the news and drinking coffee all day while their employees did most of the work at an office or warehouse.

Unfortunately, this creates a negative image for those who consider themselves self-employed. Those who work at home cannot always be compared to business owners, who most likely do delegate a good portion of their work. Rather, work at home individuals are often the owner and the employees, the planner and the executioner. In other words, many do all of the work required to make their businesses run.

Because many people do not realize this, friends and family of those working at home may often interrupt their workday with phone calls and unexpected visits that business owners just do not have time to deal with. While your loved ones may have good intentions in their desire to communicate with you during work hours, here are a few tips to educate your friends and family about your need for boundaries:

1. Make a good sign to hang on your door. If you work primarily on the phone where a doorbell ringing might set the dogs off barking, this should help things a little. Print a note politely telling visitors you are unavailable during certain working hours. Mention that packages may be left at the door without ringing the bell. Laminate it, and hang it up when you begin your workday.

2. Turn off the telephone ringer (if possible) or use Caller I.D. Screening your calls and only answering the business-related ones are a good way to cut back on annoying and frivolous phone calls. When your friends and family ask why you did not take their call, simply reply that you were working, and only taking calls from client. After a few times of this happening, they should begin to get the point.

3. Don’t let others talk you into doing errands or favors for them. Learn to say no without offering to help another time. Be firm. Many who work at home get phone calls from friends or other parents asking them to do a favor, run an errand, or transport their children for them. Politely inform them that you are working, and that the only breaks you get throughout the day are to drop off and pick up your children from school.

4. Create a “set” schedule. If you work some hours one day and others another, it will be hard for your loved ones to know the best time to get in touch. Set your schedule and make sure everyone knows it. Put it on the back of your business cards and hand them out at your next family function.

Whether your friends and family are crossing boundaries because they aren’t aware of their existence, or because they don’t truly believe in their necessity, following the above suggestions will help you educate them about your needs. Hopefully, they will recognize your desires, sense your seriousness about needing boundaries, and be fully willing to comply.

Use these few tips and start to enjoy a more well rounded work at home career and lifestyle today. Join us again soon for the 3^rd last of our 7 week mini course next week.

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