Friday, April 11, 2008

Children and the Home Based Business

Children and the Home Based Business
Copyright © Francina Smit
http://www.InHouseDollars.com


Children and the Home Based Business

Those who claim that working from home is wonderful because it permits them to be home with the little ones and still make a bunch of money quite obviously have never tried it. Sure, this idea is great while school is in session or junior is taking a nap, but the moment the kids are home it is next to impossible to conduct any kind of business. This requires many a parent to work late into the night in order to make up for lost time during the day and this is not at all in keeping with the smiling images that seem to populate the websites selling work from home programs.

While children and the home based business may be somewhat of an oil meets water situation, there are some ways to work around the situation:

1. Depending on the age of the child, get them involved. If you business is cake making, children old enough to stir or crack eggs should be given the opportunity to work on a small batch of dough. Sure, you might toss out the dough when junior is not watching (it might be hopelessly over mixed and the gluten malformed as a result) but the prospect of helping will make her or him feel less like they do not have your attention and more like they are integral part of whatever it is that you are doing.

2. Set boundaries and be willing to abandon them at a moment’s notice. While it is one thing to let your elementary school aged child know that until the big hand reaches the 12 you will not be able to play, a wailing child or one that is barely fighting back the tears will not permit for productivity. See these boundaries you set as somewhat flexible. Conversely, if it is just a matter of a child not wanting to come up with ways of entertaining her- or himself it is wise to not feed into this behavior by enforcing the boundaries or providing ample school work opportunities that will keep the kids busy until you are done with the business at hand.

3. Enforce boundaries that are being broken by the nature of the business. This applies especially to those who will find seasonal ups and downs in their business, such as freelance tax professionals. While it is tempting to work around the clock to rake in the money, small children will not understand why you are home but not playing with them. Get your priorities straight and only take on enough work that will keep you fiscally afloat but not so much that your child is paying for it in time away from you.

4. Remember that while being home with the kids means caring for them and watching after them, it does not mean hosting a play date for all the neighborhood kids whose parents neglected to find babysitting. Of course, unless saying no is second nature to you, you might find that this is a hard road to travel and you will be wise to discuss this friends and family members who might be able to offer some insight as to how to deal with the request for babysitting while you are working.

Be sure you take the abovementioned into consideration before starting your Home Based Business. It definitely can work – it will just take some juggling – get good at that then!





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Feature Article: Make the Leap to Home Based Business Success
Copyright © Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy
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Before you can have a successful home based business, you must first possess 3 "intangibles." These are things that must come from WITHIN you.

 ===> Intangible 1 <===

First, you must have a strong WHY.

Why MUST you have a successful home business? What is driving you? What is it that you CAN'T have in your life anymore and/or what is it that you absolutely MUST HAVE now?

For me, I couldn't stand working 12+ hours a day anymore and missing the experience of my children growing up. I also absolutely HAD TO HAVE the freedom of being able to control my life and finances through a little box (laptop computer) that I could carry with me anywhere in the world and not be tied to anyone's time pressures or demands but my own. That was my carrot and my stick. I felt a great pain deep in my gut of missing out on my children's lives and the incredible freedom that succeeding in a home based business would provide for me. I found my why. You MUST find yours.

===> Intangible 2 <===

You must BELIEVE that it is possible.

If you don't believe that it's POSSIBLE for you to have a successful home based business or make your living from home, you won't. It's that simple.

For me, figuring out that it was possible was just a matter of realizing that many other people were ALREADY making great money working from home. If they could do it, I could too. It would just be a matter of figuring out what those people were doing and then adapting it to my situation.

There is no shortage of undeniable PROOF that people (millions of them) are making money working from home. Just get online and do some research and you'll find countless testimonials and stories of REAL PEOPLE making real money on the Internet. Or head to your local bookstore and you'll find the same documented evidence of this fact. Truth is, it's getting easier and easier to make money with your own home based business.

I've always said that "affiliate marketing" (a simple way to make money from home) is the job of the future. In the "old" days, you had to go to a potential employer, apply for the position and hope for the best. Now you can simply go to any company you want, fill out their affiliate application and start work immediately. Affiliates are the new working class. In fact, making money with affiliate programs or making your living on the Internet is WAY MORE than possible. It is pretty much (or will be soon enough) unavoidable now. Affiliate marketing is the "job" of the future that's already here TODAY.

===> Intangible 3 <===

You must be willing to MAKE THE LEAP.

Ready, FIRE, then aim... This is the operating philosophy you MUST adopt to succeed with a home based business.

That's backwards for most people who like to aim before they fire. The fact is that home based business success is a moving target... The only thing constant about it is change. You need to stop analyzing the game and simply jump into it. You can't learn from the outside... You have to be IN THE RING to truly understand it.

The lesson here is that you will never really be READY to start a home based business. You simply have to start one. It's like having children... You're never really ready, but when it happens you adapt and grow. This is what I call "Making the Leap."

The good news is that the cost of failure with having your own home based business is very small. In the "brick and mortar" world you need to evaluate things very carefully before you decide to open up a business. It's almost always necessary to invest thousands of dollars to get an offline business off the ground. However, on the Internet you can often start a successful business for less than $100. The Plug-In Profit Site is a great example of this: http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-21256

You simply need to get IN THE GAME... Each moment that you stay "out there," you're wasting valuable time that you could be learning and skills necessary to build a successful home based business. In fact, if you're not in the game yet, you're ALREADY behind the times. Make the leap to creating a successful home based business today!

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