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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 third post of our seven week mini course discusses how to deal with our family’s expectation in regards to us working from home. 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: DEALING WITH FAMILY EXPECTATIONS

When both parents work outside the home, the details of taking care of the family and household are usually taken care of equally. The healthiest relationship consists of two partners who agree to split up duties; each taking in consideration what the other does for a living while away at work.

However, most families do not have such agreements in force, but rather they push and pull on each other to get things done when it apparent they have been neglected. Alternatively, mothers may take on the role of house keeper and caretaker without question, drawing on the traditional “wife and mother” roles passed on from grandmothers. In some modern families, dad may play the traditional nurturing role.

However, what happens when the caretaker works from home? Many spouses of work at home parents may not realize the energy that is involved in essentially working two jobs at the same time. While one may be working while at home during the day, the other is not there to see the benefits that come out of the work that was done.

Unfortunately, many spouses have a hard time realizing that their work at home counterparts accomplish more during the day than most in the corporate world do. Therefore, their expectations of what should be done at home, in the evening and on weekends, may not change. Even worse, the expectations could grow.

Here are some ways to help your spouse recognize the work you do, and allow your role of work at home mom morph from the traditional role of wife and mother to something that matches the new dynamics in your family’s household.

1. Display your professionalism – Get up early, shower, and be dressed for work when your spouse leaves for work. Develop a working schedule and adhere to it to show that you are serious about what you do.

2. Create a separate office space, make business cards, and otherwise treat yourself as a self-employed individual.

3. Involve your spouse in your work – Whenever possible, share with your spouse how your day went, any new projects you are involved in, and even offer to let them help now and then. This will help your spouse understand the concept that you actually provide a service or product to others, and make a living doing so.

4. Share the wealth and rewards – Nothing shows a spouse how hard you’ve been working than a share of the profits. While most income earned may be funneled directly into a joint account used for bills, set aside a small sum each month to use as “play” money.

5. Go on a special date, buy something special, or save up your money and take a small vacation. When a spouse is finally able to recognize what is accomplished throughout the day, and see the rewards that are associated with that, they are more likely to be open to a redistribution of the family’s responsibilities.

Not only will this make day-to-day life easier for the person working at home, but also it will bring a new appreciation from family members for the work that is done in support of the family.

Use these few tips and start to enjoy a more well rounded work at home career and lifestyle today. Join us again for the 4^th post of our 7 week mini course next week.

If you would like to read more about Working at Home and how we can assist you, follow this link:

Guide to Working at Home

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.

This, the second post of our seven week mini course discusses how we can keep getting sufficient adult contact while working from the confines of our homes. So, grab the RSS feed from this blog not to miss the complete mini course.

This week we discuss: GETTING SUFFICIENT ADULT CONTACT

Most people receive a large daily dose of social interaction at their jobs, while in school, or otherwise during the course of the day. Those who work at home (and especially those who have children), on the other hand, especially those who work entirely on the computer or that work online, may lack the daily contact needed on a regular basis. Some may find themselves making frequent, but unnecessary, trips to the mall, bank, or grocery store just for some interactions with adults.

While it may be hard to meet new people when working at home, there are some ways to help get the social calendar filled. Other than pursuing personal hobbies and interests outside of work, there are some ways to get some social interaction during the course of your working hours.

Here are a few tips to avoid the castaway feelings that can begin to surface when contact with the outside world is limited:

1. Network locally: Joining a local Chamber of Commerce will open the doors to new relationships that can be enjoyed both personally and professionally. If you can’t afford to join, you can meet others at free career fairs or local workshops.

It doesn’t matter if you network with other work at home moms or not; however, building a network primarily with other work at home moms and dads will give you contact with others who understand the challenges you face on a daily basis.

2. Network online: There are a many online groups and forums that moms can join for support, mentoring, or just casual conversation. Over time, the friendships you make online can become strong enough to substitute a lack of personal relationships in your hometown. In some larger metro areas, member of online groups may even decide to meet in person and have regular get-togethers.

3. Schedule “out of office” meetings: Everyone needs a break now and then from their work. Hire a sitter if your children are still young enough to be home during the day. Make an “appointment” with a friend or other family member to meet for lunch once or twice a week. Have these meetings during your normal working hours so you feel as if you are really getting a break. This is also a good way to spend more time with your spouse, in the event that’s whom you decide to have lunch with.

4. Simulate company: In some instances, if leaving the house is not an option, you can create artificial company. This sounds off-the-wall, but chances are you already do it. Turn on the television, watch the news, listen to the radio, or wear a hands-free headset and make telephone calls while working.

You can also use an internet personal messenger to communicate instantly with local and long-distance friends and family. Some even play online music and have the ability to make PC-to-PC calls.

Those who work at home can now enjoy a social life that consists of more than little drooling people with baby bottles and spit up. There will also be no more need to bombard spouses when they get home, talking incessantly in an attempt to make up for a day with no understandable human dialogue.

Use these few tips and start to enjoy a more well rounded work at home career and lifestyle today. Join us again for the 3^rd post of our 7 week mini course next week. If you would like to read more about Working at Home and how we can assist you go to www.womenslifestylepublications.com/business/work-at-home/.

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.

Over the next 7 weeks I’ll be posting a mini course in Working from Home covering Seven ways to make Working at Home really work for You. So, grab the RSS feed from this blog not to miss the complete mini course.

One of the most commonly encountered areas of frustration is combining work and home. A few factors converge to complicate things for those working at home. First, the traditional separation between work and home is eliminated. Lines become blurred and problems ensue. Second, a primary motivator for many working at home is a desire to spend more time with children. It’s a laudable goal, but it also produces some complications.

This week we discuss: SPLITTING TIME – WORK AND FAMILY

If you’re new to working at home, you’ll quickly find that it’s not as easy as you thought it could be to manage the home, the kids, and the job. Many decide to leave the workforce, thinking that if they instead work at home, that they will have plenty of time to keep the house clean and organized while keeping the children under control.

The truth is, working at home takes much more motivation, perseverance and commitment than a job outside the home does. Balancing work and family can seem almost impossible at first, but it is easier than that. While it is hard work to earn money while raising your children, it is infinitely more rewarding than spending all day away from your family only to come home tired and unwilling to participate in family activities.

However, if you’re struggling for ways to keep the balance and maintain your sanity, look to these helpful tips.

1. Make lists and prioritize: This holds true for both personal and professional “to dos.” Those who work at home will have no shortage of things around the house to keep up with.

Knowing exactly what you need to accomplish will help you prioritize your day, getting the most important things out of the way first. That way, if your day doesn’t quite go as planned, it will be the least important things that don’t get done.

2. Schedule your work and your play: When we have an outside job, our bosses determine our schedules. We’re allowed breaks, lunches, and the occasional vacation day. When working at home, those who keep a schedule are able to stay on track and balance their work and home lives more efficiently.

Don’t forget to schedule some fun time as well. That way you aren’t taking away time from work that needs to be done, causing a situation where working overtime on a later day will cause family stress.

3. Respect your family’s wishes: If your children or spouse prefers to spend more time with you when they get home, make a schedule that accommodates them. Try to work less in the evenings and on the weekends, and work harder and more efficiently during the day while they’re away.

4. Choose your battles wisely: Cutting the non-essential tasks from your day will save time, help you get your work done faster, and eliminate having your work overflow into family time.

Those who work at home may be tempted to tackle the pile of laundry instead of writing the proposal that is due, but choosing to fold laundry later while watching television with the family is a much better idea than having to miss family time so the proposal is done.

Being a work at home parent and spouse is a blessing, and many who are unable to be at home to raise their children will tell you they wish they had the means to work at home as well.

Though maintaining a healthy relationship with your work may be hard when trying to juggle the responsibilities of being a parent, there are ways to do it without sacrificing the precious time with your children or spouse.

I’ll be posting the rest of this 7 part course over the next 7 weeks. If you would like to find out more about Working from Home follow this link: A Guide to Working From Home.

Opportunity, Money, Flexibility, Family & Interests – You CAN have it all.

There are many people that have made a conscious decision to stop working for someone else and start their own business. They did so after serious consideration of what they want out of life and then pursued their dreams and goals.

Every year, thousands escape the rat race. They shed jobs that limit their potential and satisfaction. They find fulfilment in their work and unprecedented financial rewards.

No more commutes. No more annoying supervisors. No more dead end jobs.

They operate their own businesses from the comfort of their own home.

Would you like to join them?

Somewhere along the line, many of us developed a mental image of our future and how things were supposed to work out. We would go to school, get a good job, work until our hair turned gray, and retire. It seemed simple and natural.

But we have discovered that long-held plan was far less than picture perfect. It came with limitations on our individuality, creativity, earning potential and personal fulfilment an of course that fact that retrenchment and job losses are currently the news on all fronts. 

In the past few months unemployment has risen extensively and will continue do to so because of the global financial mess that the world is in, forcing more people to reinvent themself to adapt to the changing times. We either have to start applying for other jobs and hopefully get something to keep us going or maybe we are not even that fortunate.  

For some, including myself for that matter, have had to make certain decisions based on the fact that we had either been retrenched, told our contracts had expired or have been told in no uncertain terms “our duties would no longer be required”.  What do we do then?  Millions across the world are currently facing these prospects.

Re: April 03, 2009

• In March, job losses were large and widespread across the major industry sectors.
• In the US Unemployment rate rose from 8.1 to 8.5 percent.
• Payroll employment has decreased by 3.3 million over the past 5 months in the US alone.
• The rest of the world doesn’t show any better pictures of figures for that matter.

However, as the cliché goes: “With adversity comes opportunity.”

We learned that jobs provide a pay check but take so much more from us. We work our hardest to succeed within the workforce, but find ourselves at the mercy of others and forces we can never hope to control.

We begin to realize that no matter how hard we work in our traditional job, no matter how many times we take on extra assignments, come in early or stay late that our chance for real success will always be limited.

Unfortunately, we spent so long assuming this was the way things were "supposed to be" that it is hard to envision a real alternative. So, we try to grit our teeth and "tough it out" in hopes that some miracle will happen and things will get better.

Back to the salt mines. Another day, another dollar.

It’s the daily grind. It’s punching the clock. It’s a supervisor you can barely tolerate getting on your case even though you are clearly five times smarter than she’ll ever be. It’s middle management bungles. It’s upper management cold-heartedness. It’s a loud factory floor or a tiny slate gray cubicle. Forty hours per week, plus overtime. Occasional weekends.

If you are a good boy or girl, that hourly wage will inch up just fast enough to almost keep up with inflation every year and some day you may even join the ranks of salaried management and longer hours dealing with even more annoying people. It’s described as everything from a hassle to a prison. It’s a job and you might be tempted to get rid of it. That’s probably why you are reading this ebook.

Unfortunately, along with all of the agony, the job also brings with it money. If you’re lucky, it might bring a lot of money, health benefits and even a shot at retiring without starving to death. 

Jobs mean money. Money, whether it’s the root of all evil or not, makes the world go ‘round and ‘round. Thus, the inmates refuse to attempt to escape. In some workplace version of the Stockholm syndrome, the hostage employees begin to trust and rely upon their oppressive boss overlords even though they recognize that the guys upstairs don’t have their best interests in mind.

Even in this modern twenty-first century economy where people change jobs like disposable lighters—use it for awhile, then get rid of it—many spend their idle hours dreaming of a comfortable work prison. Some place they can tolerate long enough to make it to age sixty-five with some benefits. They don’t even want to grin and bear it for several decades. They just want to bear it. That alone would be enough. That is hard.

There are some people who are willing to make a break for it. They visualize a future that doesn’t consist of years of abuse capped off with little more than a stooped back and a gold-plated retirement watch. When they daydream, they think about running their own show. They imagine not just making a living, but actually living. They don’t want a new office or to work for the company across town. They want to own their own future and they want to sweeten the deal by working at home.

Others are already at home and are looking for work. Instead of trying to find a gig on the bus route, they may be ready to do their own thing. Others may just be looking for a way to add a few bucks to the family coffer every week while being able to spend quality time at home parenting. Instead of forking over their slave wages for day care, they decide they can be both a parent and a provider at the same time by effectively operating a work at home business.

How many hours will we spend commuting? How many managers and supervisors will come and go before we tire of the corporate politics? How many benefit cuts and undersized bonuses will we endure? Are we going to wait in anticipation to be told that our services are no longer required?

The answer to those questions is up to you. There is an alternative.

Thousands have found a way out. They have pushed down the walls of their cubicles, thrown down their aprons, taken off their name tags, ripped up the company dress code and found a solution to the dullness and limitations of the workforce.

They operate their own businesses and they do it from the comfort of their own homes.

Working at home is an absolutely outstanding way to escape being a mere employee and to transform your life while improving your financial well-being.

We have compiled a great guide to help you decide, start and maintain a better lifestyle, working at home. This is not another tiny manual stuffed with bogus work at home opportunities!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Guide to Working at Home reveals…

	Advantages of working at home!
	Personality traits of successful home workers
	The challenges of running a home business
	An honest discussion about money and funding
	Advice on balancing family & home business
	How to decide if you are ready to be your own boss

AND MUCH, MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

It isn't some sort of scam business plan that guarantees you millions and delivers pennies. I am excited about this ebook because it does something different. Instead of focusing on the information you already have, it gives you something new. It gives you a perspective. It helps you to understand what it means to operate your own home business and how to successfully prepare yourself to make your own way.

This is not a collection of unrelated tips that may or may not apply to your home business. It is a far superior alternative.

You'll learn critical information that will help you to go from being another disgruntled employee to being the owner of your own home business.

A Woman's Guide to Working at Home Successfully provides you with a much-needed perspective and analysis of what it means to be your own boss and to run your own home business.

This eBook has been written for anyone who may be ready to escape the daily work ritual.

No more morning commutes with other wage-zombies. No more spilt gas station cappuccinos in the car. No more keeping your fingers crossed for a promotion. If that sounds good to you, keep reading. We are going to examine the attraction and benefits of running your own home business. We are also going to honestly approach some of the challenges of escaping the traditional work force and how you can deal with them. We are going to cover some of the many work at home options available and discuss where to find new ones.

We’ll talk about avoiding the scores of work at home scams and will spend some time discussing some of the unique challenges faced by those who are working with home and dealing with kids at the same time.

Here’s Just A Sample Of The Topics You'll Find Covered Inside this Instant Download Digital eBook "A Woman's Guide to Working at Home Successfully"

• Why work at home?
• Challenges of working at home
• Risk and insecurity
• Is working at home right for you?
• Can you afford it?
• Plan B
• Do you really want it?
• Choosing a business
• Working from behind the keyboard
• Affiliate marketing
• Ebay and auctions
• Adsense and contextual advertising
• Providing a service
• Making working at home really work
• Parenting while working at home

The topics listed above should give you a good idea of what to expect from A Woman's Guide to Working at Home Successfully. But don't think for a split-second that's all it offers.

If you have ever wanted to toss your name tag like a ninja’s shuriken right into the head or chest of a dimwitted middle manager, this is your ebook. If you’d like to redefine casual Friday to mean actually putting on pants, this is your resource. This is a handy guide to working at home that won’t pull any punches or sell any bogus dreams. You can consider it a letter of warning or a carefully-crafted escape plan. It may be both.

Of course, the whole issue of working from home is incredibly expansive and we don’t profess to cover every single nook and cranny of the matter within these pages. We do, however, think this is a valuable resource that will help you decide whether or not working from home will work for you and, if so, can help you in deciding how to stop being a clock-puncher and to become your own boss.

It's time you gave yourself an edge.

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