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Tips for Working at Home with a Small Child
by: Jackie Birdsall

Working from home presents many challenges but is especially tough when you have a little one vying for your attention. To some this is a contest of wills in itself where to others it is a perk. Often times it is both.

Short of shipping the kid off to Grandma's or daycare, what's a work at home parent to do?

We all need routines, especially children. Establish a daily routine so she knows what to expect and you have a workable plan, yet keep it flexible. I like to work in the morning and have the rest of the day available for fun and games but it doesn't always work out that way. My son knows that mornings are my work time and for the most part he entertains himself while I toil away. But some days he is just full of energy and needs more one on one interaction with me, he's only three after all. That's fine; I can always take a break or plan to catch up later in the day or week. After all, he's the reason I am home in the first place, he is priority number one. Allow yourself to go with the flow. Try to have a set time and routine for working but be flexible so you can truly enjoy the benefits of staying at home. Is it an interruption when your child barges in excited about some wonderful discovery or a welcome pleasure? Take a break, let it be a welcome diversion and enjoy the moment.

Here's a trick both you and your child will benefit from: use a timer. Children love timers and respond well to them. If he knows you are all his when the timer buzzes, he will be more likely to let you finish the task. This also helps balance your work time with your family time and keep your focus. Make sure you follow through, when the buzzer buzzes, time's up. No cheating. (Hint: don't make an important call 2 minutes before the buzzer is set to go off).

Design your office so that it is kid friendly. Toddlers love to imitate. Why not set up a play office within your home office complete with a little desk with a play phone, calculator and other safe office gadgets? Let them play "office" while you type up reports. Have special toys that he only plays with while you're working. My son loves to bang on an old key board and click an old mouse. I'll have him search for letters on the keyboard, in doing so he's learning his alphabet and valuable computer skills to boot. For older children, hook up an old computer and load it with age appropriate software limiting computer time just as you would TV time, again use the timer.

Need a helping hand? Ask for help occasionally. My 7 year old daughter loves sealing envelopes. Even though we have a self moistening Pitney Bowes machine, I put her to work licking as many envelopes as she can handle when I'm doing a mailing. It turns a mundane job into a fun time for both of us and the work gets done. She actually does a good job; she even stacks them in neat stacks

If you're lucky and your child still naps, this is a no brainer, take advantage of it and work while she sleeps. If not, enforce an hour or so of "quiet time". All kids need it and so do you. Keep a stack of books, puzzles, playdoh and other activities handy and encourage her to play quietly and independently until quiet time is over (when the timer goes off).

One of the biggest obstacles when working is making or taking a phone call. It never fails, as soon as the phone rings somebody starts squawking or “has to go potty”. Use email as much as possible and plan outgoing calls around quiet time or first thing in the morning before your child gets restless. I usually mention that I'm working from my home office with a little one at my side and have found most everyone is supportive, interested and even a bit jealous that I have this opportunity to work at home while raising my daughter.

BZZZZ! My work is done, my kids are waiting.

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BENEFIT OF HAVING YOUR OWN BUSINESS - LEVERAGE!

Benefit Of Having Your Own Business - LEVERAGE!
By: Paul and Jackie Birdsall

The #1 Benefit Of Having Your Own Business.....FINANCIAL FREEDOM!

Having not just an unlimited income but also the time to enjoy it!

So, how exactly is that possible? Chances are you're already working hard and putting in long hours. What's the answer? I'll tell you!

The #2 Benefit Of Having Your Own Business.....LEVERAGE!

The difference between the wealthy and the middle class is leverage! The wealthy have an "EMPLOYER" mentality rather than an employee mentality!

The very wise and wealthy J. Paul Getty said it best, "I'd rather get paid 1% of 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own!"

With leverage, you can turn one hour of work into 100! How? Well think about it! If you have 100 people working for you and they each work 1 hour, that's 100 man (or woman!) hours,right?

Right!

By employing the efforts of others as you build your network, you'll be able to experience true financial freedom through TIME LEVERAGE!

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Don't worry about HOW to build the network, we can teach you how to do that and would be happy to do so.

Be sure to email or call us if you have any questions or if you'd like to discuss Time Leverage Strategies!

Until next time!

Mohd Sabri Mohammad with the Advanced Mentoring Team are affiliated with many successful home business parents and are willing to coach anyone serious about staying home with their children.

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THERE JUST ISN'T ENOUGH TIME...YEAH RIGHT!

There Just Isn't Enough Time...Yeah Right
by: Paul Birdsall

There are so many times that I have a new person join my business and tell me that there time was limited to just afew hours a week and yet still want me to impart them with the tools to becoming a hyper successful internet network marketer that I figured now is good a TIME as any to prove them wrong.

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The first thing to learn is that there is always time as long as you make it.

In a home based business your largest asset as well as your largest hurdle to overcome is the question of time. How do I make it and where am I going to find it.

So let me give you a few tips based on experience . . .

When I first began my internet network marketing businesstime was definitely an issue as I still held down a fulltime job so I had to make time when there really wasn't much to make.

I learned a few things . . .

What's important to you, you make time for is the biggest of them all though.

Now I'm not saying skip out on work, that's what puts food on the table, and of course that is number one until you liberate yourself from that concern.

But . . .

There are things that you do in the day that don't make you more productive despite what you may think.

Number one is access . . .

Living in the highly connected society that we do it's hard not to stay connect and that goes double when you have a home based business or network marketing organization budding below you.

In network marketing it's all about relationship, passion,and growth and well . . . It's that first thing that I think we trip on too much.

See, we as network marketers falsely believe that we have to be accessible to everyone at all time and let me tell you from experience it's not true!

When I first started to see strong growth in my organization and till today I tended to get an over abundance of emails and calls from people that wanted something.

It was, and to an extent today like I was a 7-11, open 24hours 7 days a week, and I believed that this is the way it had to be if I was to be a good sponsor.

You may disagree with what I'm about to say to you, but it's the truth . . . 75% of your communications with others are a waste of time.

Why?

When people email and call you about little things that if they didn't have direct access to you whenever they want that they would figure out themselves if they just spent five minutes looking into the situation themselves is a waste of your time.

When you allow it, people get needy, and when you're new to success you think you have to cater to it or else you're notbeing the best that you can be.

WRONG!

The first and sometimes hardest way to free up your time is to let needy concerns go.

Disconnect, turn off the cell phone for a few hours. I promise it's not going to hurt.

I'm as big a culprit as any when it comes to this. People call me and look up any hour has passed and nothing has happened except not so important conversation.

Let go. Please let go.

Disconnect for a while and you'll find time you never knew was there.

Second . . .

Be realistic when it comes to your time in a day. I used towrite to do lists that would go on for pages each and every morning and at the end of the day only have 4 things on my list of 41 done. (And usually they were the easiest things on that list to get done.)

So be realistic, when you have huge tasks and lots of little ones be realistic with your time, don't write a list of 83 things to do today when you know only, at most, 7 will get done.

Create your list and put a time next to each task for how long it will take and then stick to it. Don't keep working on your first task four hours past your allotted time. Stop when it's time to stop and move on.

It's easy to say but hard to do. It takes discipline, but you get a lot more done when you do it.

Third is focus . . .

Ideas are great and can come in an instant and can add new things to your list of to do items in a second, which is both good and bad.

Each month focus on one task, write your ideas down, but if they are not important to today's or this weeks work keep them documented and for the right time and continue to work on your main focus of the month.

For instance if lead generation is your task this month .

Great!

Learn and do as much as is needed to be the best at that task that you can, brainstorm and test new things, and what you'll find is at the end of the month you'll be much better at lead generation.

But what happens is you start out today thinking about lead generation and by the end of the night you start cooking up ideas on a new promotion for your team because of a great idea you had earlier.

Leave it until next month when promotion is your focus.

Again, easy to say, but harder to do . . .

Finally just get to it.

Write your list of to do items and get to them. Don't think about how you're going to get them done, or what the best order to get them done in is. You're wasting valuable time!

Get to it.

More time is wasted, and again I'm a huge offender here as well, thinking about when to get something done when youshould just be doing it.

Know your tasks and then do them.

When I first started my business as I said time was a huge factor. I had to get up take a shower and then get to work for 8 hours.

Never mind contacting new 40 prospects, writing new promotions for our team, learning new skills, or creating a team marketing guide.

What did I do?

I just made sure to wake up 3 hours earlier to get my business done before I went to work.

By the end of the day I only had the personal contacts left and maybe a few details.

The morning before anyone can bother you with little time wasting tasks and you're all alone is the best time of the day to get REAL work done, so use it!

These are just a few tips to find more time in your day I've learned through experience. Put them to use and you'll see what I'm saying.

You can get it all done, you just gotta make time for it.

For More Information About How You Too Can Work At Home Contact Me:

Mohd Sabri Mohammad
60356381979
http://www.parentswithpassion.com/?ID=17656