Thanks to the insightful Jen Gresham at Everyday Bright for the fabulous opportunity of guest-posting on her amazing blog. You can read it here.
Also to her wonderful community of readers who always inspire me with their conversations.
Check out her other posts and join in!
And thanks, as always, to Jon and Marsha for their guidance : )
Remember how excited you were when you started working from home?
Oh, sure, you were scared. But mainly excited.
You created your work space, set some goals and made a plan.
You loved the flexibility, your new freedom, the lack of 9-5 and threw yourself into your new business. You kept working. You couldn’t stop, because ‘time means money’ right?
Then, slowly, over time, it crept up on you.
You started to feel isolated. Alone.
And it got worse.
You went from being in charge, being in control, choosing when you do, and don’t work, to being handcuffed to your PC, working through meal-times, and shutting yourself away when you should be with family and friends.
But you know what?
I totally sympathise. I’m a serial offender, and have spent too much of my work-from-home life ‘inside’, Doing time.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
No-one really likes it.
It can waste hours and hours.
You know there’s really great content on the net but trawling through all those sites and all those posts to find the nuggets of gold with engaging, worthwhile, jaw-droppingly-useful information can be a pain can’t it?
And let’s face it, it’s not the most exciting use of your time.
So let me help.
Below are links to posts on other sites that I’ve found really useful and hopefully you will too.
They cover the over-arching themes that will help all female homeworkers: productivity, entrepreneurship, running a business from home.
Being An Entrepreneur Is More About Sacrifice Than Freedom and Riches
How To Become an Overnight Success (Really!)
Are You Too Busy? 5 Signs of Chronic Stress
How To Love Your Authentic Self
Read, study, enjoy and share the love by retweeting and sharing.
Chris
It’s been a privilege to have this guest post published at the incredibly popular Dumb Little Man blog.
You can read it here.
Firstly huge thanks to Dumb Little Man’s, Jay White, for publishing it.
Secondly a massive thank you to Jon Morrow for his amazing mentoring and guest-blogging course, Marsha ‘Wonder-Woman’ Stopa for … too much to mention here … and Shane Arthur for his incredible editing skills. Couldn’t have done it without you!
I’d love you to comment and share it.
Chris
From the outset I said you wouldn’t be inundated with emails and posts from me.
That said, it’s been very quiet around here lately. A little too quiet to be honest.
But I didn’t want to put second-rate stuff on my site so felt it was better to put nothing at all on, while I practiced and improved. I want to give you valuable, useful information that you can act on.
So I’ve been learning.
Learning about running an effective online business.
Learning about writing.
Learning about blogging and guest-posting.
Learning how to deliver great content.
If you’re currently blogging, or are thinking about introducing it to your home-based business, check out my first ever guest post, 12 Blogging Mistakes That Make You Look Like a World-Class Idiot at Jon Morrow’s blog, Boost Blog Traffic. When it comes to guest-blogging Jon is the Main Man. So while you’re at the site take a look at his other posts too. They are Simply The Best!
If you’d care to retweet and share I’d appreciate it.
I’ll be in touch soon (but not too soon!)
In life you’ll have successes and failures.
Delights and disappointments.
When you work for yourself, on your own, and experience these highs and lows, your emotions can run really high as it’s personal.
You’re totally responsible for your results and often there’s no-one to share them with to add some perspective.
You’ll probably fall into one of two camps:
Camp #1:
Do this and you’ll waste valuable time and lose momentum as you don’t learn enough, or quickly enough, from your mistakes.
When you look up from the party you’re a week further down the line and you’ve done very little that can be described as productive as you’ve spent so much time patting yourself on the back.
But I reckon you’re more likely to fall into:
Camp #2:
Do this and you’ll feel unfulfilled and rarely satisfied because you’ll focus on what you’re not doing right and miss the good bits.
Get the balance right. Continue reading
No doubt you’ve heard Jerry Hall’s famous quote:
“My mother said it was simple to keep a man:
‘You must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom.’
I said I’d hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.”
Please don’t click away!!
This is certainly (Thank God) very outdated.
Your focus isn’t (just/always/ever: delete where applicable) on ‘keeping a man’.
To be honest there have been times when I’d have rather fulfilled my roles in the living room and the kitchen and hired someone to take care of the bedroom bit!!
But you get the problem.
You want to be able to do it all.
Be all things to all people.
But unlike Jerry you probably don’t have access to pots of money and an army of daily help. So you have to fulfill all the roles yourself. Wife / Mother / Daughter / Businesswoman / Housekeeper (and you can insert your own etceteras.)
So you juggle.
You spin plates.
Hell you’re a Demon Multi-Tasker! Continue reading
Welcome Ladies!!
Your Improve How You Work From Home Blog has now officially launched!!
I’m very excited and can’t wait to share our homeworking experience together.
The headline above says it all.
This blog is to help you be productive and successful and keep some degree of sanity, achieve a better balance and so enjoy what you do and who you are. Continue reading
Welcome to your all shiny and new Improve How You Work From Home Blog!
I’m excited that you’ve decided to join us!
Take a look around at the other pages and read through the How to Kick Your Own Butt report that you’ve had from me if you’ve already subscribed. Continue reading