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Cleaning Out Your Backpack

After going through a divorce it is easy to get bogged down with negativity. We begin filling our backpacks with rock after rock after rock and before long, the weight on our shoulders is keeping us from moving forward and climbing the mountains before us. When I was going through my divorce my self-esteem was at an all time low. Every morning I would look in the mirror and start piling the rocks in my backpack. “Nobody is going to want me now.” Clunk! “I’m not pretty enough.” Clunk! “I’m not skinny enough.” Clunk! “I couldn’t keep my marriage together. … Continue reading →

Evaluating Your Self Worth

Do you constantly focus on your weight, appearance or ability to perform in a negative manner? Are you always comparing yourself to other moms and coming to the conclusion that you suck at raising kids? Do you regularly dismiss compliments and continually find yourself checking with others before moving forward with projects or decisions as they relate to your home or family? If you answered “yes” to any of the aforementioned questions, you are not alone. A new study shows an increasing number of moms suffer from low self-esteem. In addition, researchers found that stay-at-home moms experience self-worth issues more … Continue reading →

Benefits For The Self-Employed Part 1: Health Insurance

When you make the leap from being an employee to being self-employed, you gain a lot of important things. You gain freedom to do the work that you want to do, when you want to do it, and for clients that you choose to do it for. You gain the ability to stay home with your children if that is something that is important to you. The list of things that you gain from making the move to working from home can be a long one, and that is a good thing. As great as all of those things are, … Continue reading →

Moms-to-Be: Work Stress Can Be Harmful to Your Baby

A Dutch study published in the American Journal of Public Health took a look at work stress in the first trimester of pregnancy — and the impact it can have on an unborn child. More than eight thousand pregnant women participated in a survey focused on employment and working conditions — they were asked about the number of hours worked per week and their stress levels (among other things). More that seven thousand women continued in the study, and were in contact with researchers again after giving birth to report the weight of the newborns. The results? Women who worked … Continue reading →

Is This Work Worth the Money?

In the beginning of our businesses, most of us expect to work long hours and NOT see the immediate reflection of our work in our bank accounts. As we grow our businesses, however, it stands to reason that our time should become more valuable and we may find that we can begin evaluating how much time we are spending on a particular project or with a particular customer and ask ourselves whether the work we are doing is equal to the money we are getting paid? I know there are those people who prefer to just do the work and … Continue reading →

Portrait of an Emotional Abuser: The Stand-Up Comic

“Jane’s such an airhead, it’s a wonder she doesn’t float away completely!” “Did you hear what Bob over in engineering did the other day? He was so busy figuring up his gas mileage, he ran out of gas!” “Like Shirley really deserved that raise! Like she’s so hard-working! The only thing she ever worked hard for around here is making the most of her coffee breaks!” “What a moron Joe down in the garage is! The only way he’s gonna move up in the world is to climb on top of a car!” The stand-up comic is just that – … Continue reading →

Nobody Does It Like You

Whether you are thinking about starting a home – based business, just getting your home – based business off of the ground, or running an established home – based business, there is one very important thing that it is important to remind yourself of from time to time. That one thing is that your home – based business is just that. It is yours, and as such you are free to operate it in the unique and special way that only you can. The ways in which you express your individuality through your home – based business are often the … Continue reading →

Fitness Week in Review for October 6-12, 2008

Whether you live in a major metropolitan area or in Smallsville, USA these tough economic times have likely put a major dent in your budget. For some it has meant reevaluating whether a gym membership is really worth the hit to the wallet. This week the Fitness blog provided tips on how to make your fitness dollar stretch during these troubling times. We also covered ways to keep your stomach from stretching beyond what your “fat” pants will allow, and how to stretch your free time to fit in a decent workout. October 6th—–Exercise Challenges: Big City, Little Income. Don’t … Continue reading →

Author Interview – Ginger Carlson – Part Two

Welcome to the second part of our interview with Ginger Carlson, author of Child of Wonder: Nurturing Creative and Naturally Curious Children. LG: Parents are busy today, how can they have time to do something extra? GC: The great thing about creativity, and nurturing it, is that it is something that doesn’t take extra time. It is easily incorporated into what you are already doing. The activities in Child of Wonder are actually wonderful for working parents as well as stay-at-home parents, both of whom might find themselves short of time for different reasons. As Melissa Hart says in the … Continue reading →

When it’s Just Too Much Trouble

I wrote earlier today about ways that we might be called upon to cope with and respond to special requests in our home businesses and how we can decide whether or not to grant those special requests. As I was writing that article, I realized that there are sometimes when indulging a request, or even finishing a work project, can just be far more trouble than it is worth. Running a business means learning how to decide when something is just too much trouble to work on. Many of us have been taught that struggle and trial are good and … Continue reading →