.One of the biggest challenges you will face when starting a business is balancing your work with your personal life, especially if you have a family.
From the article “25 Ways Work at Home Parents Can Balance Work and Family Life” here are some tips to help you achieve work-life balance in your life:
- Keep the right perspective, keeping in mind the importance of relationships in a person’s life.
- Develop a business mindset.
- Make your family, including your kids, understand the importance of your business.
- Get your family’s commitment and support.
- Set a schedule for your work.
- Set a schedule for your family.
- Be flexible.
- Set what you want to accomplish during the day.
- Consider the needs of your kids.
- Plan frequent breaks.
- Discuss how to handle vacations.
- Wake up early.
- Be prepared to sleep late, so you can work when everybody else is sleeping
- Stick to an early bedtime schedule for kids to give you more time to work at night.
- Decide on a family routine that will work with the whole family –and stick with it.
- Set up a dedicated home office in your home.
- Share your home office with your kids.
- If possible, get some help especially in taking care of your kids when you need to work.
- Arrange play dates with friends.
- Keep your weekend free for your family.
- Be ready to spring into work if the time allows it.
- Depending on their age, check if your kids are interested in your business.
- Know when to stop working.
- Get the support of your spouse.
- Take care of yourself.
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It can be scary to start a business. I need a lot of hand holding :o)
Great site. A lot of useful information here. I’m sending it to some friends!
The ones that aren’t scams actually require work on your part – and if you’re in need of money soon then you’re likely to be sorely disappointed in any of those as well. Most of the legit opportunities out there take time to build – so if someone makes an outrageous claim of income it probably isn’t true ( and those that are true sure didn’t make that kind of money when they first began ). Time effort required – but do your own research on what is best for you, don’t take the advice of myself and others as gospel from this type of public forum. I have other ideas that may help – one of them is an online opportunity but another is one that will require a little effort to market yourself – try some data entry for local businesses, many of them don’t have the time to do it in-house and will gladly pay someone else to do it. Professionals are a good place to start, lawyers, doctors, chiropractors, etc – they need their in-house folks doing other things rather than busy work. Hope it helps!