Are you a busy mama who wants to start a business but worry about making it happen? There are nine common excuses for not starting a home business that can keep you from moving forward. But, you don't have to stay stuck! Here's help. If you’ve decided 2020 will be YOUR year, you’ve got this. You really can earn money online working part-time from the comfort of your home. I’ve been doing it for about five years now, while homeschooling nine kids, so I know it’s possible. If I can do it, so ...
50 Screen Free Winter Activities for Kids While You Work
If you're feeling stuck inside this season, try these screen-free winter activities for kids. They're a great way to overcome cabin fever and keep your kids engaged so you can get some work done! My kids enjoyed helping me brainstorm this list. Now, they love being able to pick different ideas off of it to try each day during Family Writing Time. To make this list easy to use, I broke them down by theme. Find a topic your kids enjoy, and pick an activity. Let's get this winter fun ...
4 Steps to Quickly Fill Your Content Calendar
Are you ready to quickly fill your blogging content calendar? Here's the process I use... In order to maximize the hours in a day, I've worked hard to streamline many areas of life. We have an annual meal plan, an annual chore chart, and each of my kids have a day. But, during my streamlining, I never really took the time to create processes for my business. And that meant many areas were taking me MUCH longer than they should. So I started to look for ways to streamline business tasks. My ...
How to Grow a Business with Baby Steps
Do you remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? For some reason, this tale kept coming to mind as I reflected on 2017. You see, I'm definitely not a hare when it comes to growing my business. I know plenty of bloggers who started way after me who are already blowing my page views out of the water. Or they're earning a lot more money, more consistently. And then there's me. I'm just sort of plodding along. And sometimes it feels really discouraging. I wonder why my growth isn't ...
My Top Ten Posts from 2017: Year in Review
Since 2018 is only a few days away, I've been spending a lot of time reflecting and planning. As part of this activity, I dove into my site stats, trying to gain some insight. By studying patterns in traffic, I can learn more about which posts resonate most with my readers. It helps me figure out what promotion strategies work the best. Most importantly, it helps me plan better content for 2018. While learning from my stats, I made a list of my top ten posts from 2017. These are the ...
How to Minimize Your Decisions by Giving Your Kids a Day
If you're going to balance growing a family while running a business, you've got to minimize your decisions. Otherwise, you'll quickly get overwhelmed. And tired. Decision fatigue can cripple your ability to get everything done. And as a mompreneur, you must make many decisions during the day to answer questions like, "Can I...:" Have another piece of candy? Pick what show we watch? Take a bubble bath? Help you make dinner? Print out a coloring page? Sit next to you at ...