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Walking the WAHM Tightrope- Balancing Work and Family
No matter what your
WAHM profession, one thing is definite- balancing work and
family is the equivalent of walking a tightrope. It is
imperative to make certain that you tread carefully or you may
risk a sudden fall and lose everything. However, it doesn’t
have to be that way. With careful planning, plenty of
organization, and goal setting you can run your home and
business smoothly and efficiently, and leave the tightrope
walking to professionals in the circus.
Planning and goal
settings are the best tools that work at home moms have at their
disposals. It doesn’t matter how organized you are either.
Some people are just naturally more organized than others, but
even if you run your home and business with a carefree attitude,
you can still take steps to bring order into your routine and
you’ll see amazing results. Organization and goal setting will
not rob your creativity, they will enhance it and ensures that
you maximize your time and get the most out of both your family
and work time.
You should set daily,
weekly, monthly, and yearly goals. It is also a good idea to
write your goals down and review them each night. You’d be
amazed at how much you can accomplish once you begin taking
inventory of your daily activities. When you delegate certain
activities to certain time frames, you’ll also ensure that you
have plenty of time left for family activities as well. Being a
work from home mom has its advantages and disadvantages. Many
moms can discover very quickly that it doesn’t take long for the
pressures and stress of running both work and family from the
same location can have negative consequences. Organization is
the best way to ensure that you keep your business and family
time separate and watch both grow and thrive.
You’ll find that
keeping your work and family life separate is the best policy
for ensuring that you remain professional while having the
ability to put the role of entrepreneur on the back burner when
it is time to spend time as a mother and wife. You’ll also need
to realize that no matter how strenuous your day is your
children are not interested in you as a business professional.
When you are spending time with your children, they are only
interested in mom. When you work outside of the home it may be
easier to turn off the business persona and step into the
mothering role, but you may find this more difficult when
working from home.
Keeping your business
limited to your office can help tremendously. For example, if
you need to take a business call, keep it limited to your
office, don’t take business calls in your kitchen or other rooms
of the house where your children are. You’ll also find that if
you designate times for working when your children are either
sleeping or are being cared for by other people, you will get
more accomplished. Learning how to separate your business from
your family is the best way to ensure that you can handle the
responsibilities of being a work from home mom efficiently.
Marcia Chumbley is a
work
at home mom and grandmother in Minnesota. She
is the owner of a
Christian Work From Home Moms
website
at
Faithful Grannies
http://www.faithfulgrannies.com
bringing generations of
Christian Work From Home Moms,
Grandmothers, Parents, Boomers and Families together
while providing resources, inspiration and affordable
advertising while balancing the work at home experience. She
holds a degree in Business and is a CMOM.
Article Source
CWAHGrandparents.com
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