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Nap Time Tips for Home-Based Professional Parents

home-based professionals who are stay-at-home parents, our work and our parenting are very much interconnected. One common area of concern for work-at-home parents is nap time. Some parents are blessed with excellent nappers who get down to business quickly and easily at the appointed time each day and nap for a couple of hours. Other parents have children whose nap schedule is less predictable. My son is generally pretty good about napping and usually takes a nap during a fairly predictable window of time. There are some days that he does not nap at all, though, and I have been … Continue reading →

Diary of a Work-At-Home Mom, Part 8

There will be times when your home-based work is going so smoothly that you start to think about taking on additional work so that you can earn more money. It feels great to be working at a nice pace and getting things done ahead of schedule but you begin to wonder whether you are not working up to your potential. Sometimes this may be true and there really might be room on your plate for something else. Sometimes, though, just when you are tempted to find another project or two to fill in your work schedule something happens to make … Continue reading →

Diary of a Work-at-Home Mom, Part 7

Today is my first day of testing out a new work arrangement that my family has implemented in order for me to have more time available to do my work. In the past months, I had been working outside of the home a day or two a week. I recently stopped working at that job because I realized that I did not like being there because I felt that I could make more money and have more control over my time if I were to work from home one full day each week in addition to my usual work times. … Continue reading →

Give Your Business a Tune-Up

Every so often, your home-based business needs a tune-up. Just like your car needs regular oil changes, tire rotation, and other maintenance to keep it running smoothly your home-based business can benefit from regular assessment and adjustment to keep it running at its best. Today, I discovered a good resource called the 9-Hour Business Tune-Up by Acey Gaspard. The program is available for free on the A Touch of Business website. Nine hours may seem like a big commitment, a chunk of time that you simply do not have. Fortunately, the program is broken down into nine, one-hour segments. If … Continue reading →

Adjusting Your Home Based Business to Meet Your Needs

One of the benefits of working from home is that as your needs change, you can change your work to fit them. The changes can be large or small, gradual or sudden, but the point is that you are in control of what you do when and for whom. This means that you have the power to make changes if you realize that doing things differently will be beneficial for you and for your family. During the time that I have been a home-based professional, I have made some changes to my work. Some things have remained constant, but some … Continue reading →

What’s On Your Plate?

One major issue that home-based professionals often deal with in running their businesses is the issue of their work load. The amount of work that a home-based professional can have on his or her plate at any given time depends on much more than just how much work is available. Also, home-based professionals must decide when it is time to change their work load by adding more work or by taking on less work, and even sometimes delegating work out to other people. What are some of the factors that affect a home-based professional’s work load? For starters, there are … Continue reading →