How
To Be A Mom and A Business Woman
By
Marie Jackson
Staff Writer
| Balancing
the trials and tribulations of being a stay at home mom
and business woman can frazzle even the toughest of nerves.
With a large percentage of stay at home moms, trying to
work from home, their successes depend upon a careful
balance between home life and work life. With proper organization,
time management and a little perseverance, every stay
at home mom can be a business woman in their spare time.
Organization
is the number one key to managing life as a business woman
working from home. There will never be enough time to
finish the work you have set out for the day. When you
are feeling the most creative, it will inevitably be lunch
time, play time or diaper change time. We need to plan
and plan better than any other person working from home.
The best organizational skill is to break your work schedule
up into smaller, more manageable bits. A task that may
take one solid hour, needs to be broken into 15 minute
bits. That way, we can work on each bit separately and
accomplish the whole in our "spare" time.
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Nap
time and bed time are when we have to shine. As stay at home
moms who work at home, we will accomplish the majority of our
work before our children awaken, during their nap time and after
they go to bed. It is important to get enough sleep at night
as well, so do not burn that midnight oil on too often an occasion.
Time
management is just as important as organization. Planning certain
times during the day as "quiet" times", will
eventually become routine and thus adding to the available work
time we have. Whether you take the kids to a novelty play place,
or to the park, time management for stay at home moms who work
from home, is all about multi-tasking and routine. Working at
the same times every day will help your little ones to become
more accustomed to giving mom that little bit of extra time
needed to finish the work that requires a few extra brain cells.
Routine
and time management are not just about working around the home
happenings to fit in work, it is about establishing specific
times for home activities. Having breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner
and bath time at the same time every night, is at the center
of a great routine. Eventually these activities will be expected
at the set times and the in between times will be filled with
play and, if we are lucky, free time for mom to work.
In
order to truly accomplish your goals as a stay at home mom who
works from home, you will need to stick with your dreams and
aspirations. This perseverance is at the heart of really making
it. Things will not happen overnight and there will be days
when you truly just do not have another ounce of patience. But,
over time, things will get easier and life will incorporate
your new job into the normal everyday cycle. Stick by what you
want and you will reach the stars.
Working
from home is the hardest decision I have ever made. I spend
countless late nights typing words onto a computer screen, but
I am doing what I love. There are days when I get angry, frustrated
and down right heated about my home life taking up too much
time and not being able to meet my personal daily goals, but
I live for the other days. The days when I finish work in time
to soak in a hot bath. The days when I look at that same computer
screen and see the fruits of my labor. We, as mothers and business
women, can do both. We can be what we always wanted to be and
a great mom to boot.
