How To Avoid Conflict With Partner While Working From Home?
Conflict with Partner is one of the major obstacles facing business owners both men and women. Business owners tend to spend countless hours to get their business off the ground and start making profits. Having an angry partner will only cause more anxiety, stress and leave them with an additional obstacle to overcome.
It is important that you maintain a positive attitude towards your business and if your family is working against you, that becomes almost impossible. On the hand, remember not to devote so much time to your business that you completely neglect your family. So how do you manage such a critical situation? The key issues are simple yet very effective. Intensive communication and time management are the keys to considerably minimize such conflicts. Here are some tips to help you maintain a healthy balance: 1. If you are just starting out, ensure that you have an additional source of income such as a part time job to cover your basic living expenses until your online business takes off. 2. Be honest and tell your partner about your desire to succeed, your ambitions and your reasons for running your own business. 3. Explain that setting up and running a business whether online or offline needs a lot of time and effort to get it off the ground before your start to reap the rewards. 4. Explain the benefits of working from home such as saving on rent, travel time and being able to set your own hours. 5. Keep your partner well informed of your business progress, your ups and downs, your tears and joys. Share with them your business stories. 6. Ask for their help, opinion on certain issues, like their opinion on your website design, your sales letter, and your ideas. Make them feel part of your business and their opinion is important to you. |
7. Organize your time, share your morning coffee with them, your lunch, and give them your full attention when you are with them… Of course they will get mad if the first thing you do once you wake up in the morning is rush to your PC ignoring them...
8. Don’t be selfish, always put yourself in their shoes, we all need love and attention whether males or females. 9. Set time limits and a work schedule to accommodate your families’ needs, you don’t need to work 24 hours seven days a week. 10. Help with the house chores, look after the kids, especially if your partner is working out side home. 11. Spend your time online ONLY to grow your business even if you have to give up other interesting things for a start. If you have a spare hour, spend it with your partner not surfing the net. 12. No matter how much your love your partner or they love you, one of the reasons that trouble gets initiated is the fact that your are seeing too much of each other especially if your partner is not working, so why not consider renting a small office or share an office with a friend where you can go and work there during the day. 13. Time spent with your partner should be well spent, give them your full attention no matter how busy you are with your business, make a habit of going out together for dinner once a week, or even book a room in a hotel at least once a month (if you are making enough money online, well… you should be if you are spending endless hours on your computer). 14. Once you start making money online ... show them the benefits. 15. Why not consider introducing the online business to your partner, who knows maybe they will be the next online guru. One last advice and please keep it in your mind: YOU DON'T WANT TO GAIN A BUSINESS AND LOSE A PARTNER OR A FAMILY |
How To Balance Your Home And Business When You Work At Home
Many people desire the ability to work at home. They imagine themselves rolling out of bed, commuting 20 feet without any traffic, except for the occasional pet sleeping in the hallway and starting work in their home office as they sip on their favorite latte. Without the daily office politics, commute, and water cooler gossip they feel they’ll be more focused and, ultimately, more efficient. However, with this freedom come some unforeseen drawbacks that can affect your stress level. You may find it difficult to keep yourself organized and motivated without the pressures of a boss or management team.
When you work from home and not required to clock in and out at a specific time, you are responsible for your own time management. To keep yourself and your home office organized so you are more productive and have less stress, try the following tips: 1. Keep a separate and specific work area in your home. This can be as simple as setting up a large desk and a small filing cabinet in a quiet room. Make sure you have plenty of lighting. Keep it clean and organized so you can find the materials and supplies you need to do your work. 2. Learn how you are more productive. Identify what type of work environment helps you work at your best. Are you more productive when you’re working at your desk or sitting on the couch? Your home office is your domain. Add personal items and things that help give you a positive attitude to help make you more productive. |
3. Schedule specific task. Plan your work schedule by identifying your most productive time and when you have the most energy. If you a morning person and think more clearly in the mornings then do your most difficult and important task during this time. If you have children you may want to begin work after you get them off to school, before they wake up or even during their nap.
4. Set your business hours and adhere to the schedule. Just because you work at home doesn’t mean you can take a break whenever you want because there’s no boss to tell you to get back to work. You must be managing your time by setting your business hours and following them, after all you are your own boss. Also, many people or clients may assume since you work from home you are available 24/7. Avoid interruptions by setting specific office hours when other people can contact you regarding business. Communicate this - put your business hours on your business cards, website, e-mails and voice-mail recording. 5. Plan, negotiate and prioritize. No matter how hard you try, your business and personal lives will collide. Don’t stress out when personal interruptions affect your business life. Learn to detach from your work mode, to focus and address the interruption and resolve it so that you can move forward. Then switch back to work mode and get back to your regular work schedule. Eventually, you will learn to weave in and out between business mode and personal mode throughout the day so their can be a productive balance between work and life when you work at home. |
How To Be A Stay At Home Mom With A Home Business
If you are a mom, then you already have a full time job with an endless amount of overtime hours. Even with all of the responsibilities that being a mom includes, some women decide to be a stay at home mom with a home business.
This can be a very rewarding adventure and allows some additional cash flow into the household. Being a stay at home mom with a home business takes a lot of dedication, patience and, most of all, determination. You will probably want to start out small and, time and interest permitting, work your way up to a larger business in the future. Because you will need to take frequent breaks throughout the day, it’s a good idea to select a business that is not completely demanding or time consuming. If possible, search for a business opportunity that offers part-time hours. This will give you plenty of time to spend with your children, but also give you the opportunity to do something for yourself and earn extra money in the process. Being a stay at home mom with a home business is ideal for many women. The fact that you will be able to stay at home and still be a large presence in your children’s life is extremely important. Many parents do not want to leave their children with a nanny, babysitter or relative, so having one parent working at home is the perfect option for many families. |
At first, it may be very challenging to balance home life with being a stay at home mom with a home business. It will be difficult to separate business from pleasure and your children may not understand why mommy is not available all the time. It’s a good idea to approach the transition slowly and take into consideration that your children will miss having you available 24/7. Every home business requires a computer so, if you are a stay at home mom with a home business, make sure that the computer is placed in the same room that your children are in. If they spend most of their time in the family room, place a desk in the corner and set up your office there.
This will allow you to be near your children, keep a close eye on them and work at the same time. This may be challenging at first because the children will want your constant attention, but try to explain that their mom has some very important work to finish and assure them that you will spend time with them very shortly. Begin with 30 minutes of work at different times throughout the day, then plan an activity with your little ones. Gradually work your way up to longer periods of work throughout the day as the children adjust and will allow you the time to finish your work. Being a stay at home mom with a home business will literally entail you taking on two jobs at once. It is a wonderful way, however, to spend time doing something that is just for you and can take you away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life - even if only for a few minutes. Selling on internet auctions or babysitting are two very good starter businesses and can increase in volume in accordance with your time and desire. |
How to Achieve Success Now
There is a vast amount of talking in the present day about "Freewill" and "Fate.” It seems that the majority of society believes that their surroundings and circumstances - their state of affairs - are caused by the subtle, mysterious workings of an omnipotent power, over which they are powerless.
The name of this power, they call "Fate." And while they vastly disagree on exactly what it is, what it does, and what makes it operate, they do, nevertheless, agree, excluding the acts of God, that it somehow controls their actions, movements, and circumstances; pre-destinating them to a prescribed state of affairs - each to his or her own varying degrees of wealth or poverty; health or sickness; happiness or sadness, and a score of other things in between. While there is, admittedly, some circumstantial evidence that is habitually construed to support their belief in “Fate,” there is no actual concrete proof that could justify a dogmatic view in favor of it. However, the same cannot be said of “Freewill.” There is just too much available tangible evidence to ignore its validity. And because of this fact, the minority - those individuals within it who actually believe in "Freewill" - the belief that we are independent agents responsible largely for our own state of affairs, feel strongly that claim to a belief in “Fate” is a pretentiously tactic used by those within the majority to deny responsibility for their state of affairs - their particular levels of poverty or wealth, happiness or sadness, etc., and to justify their failure to take corrective action to better their state of affairs. So numerous are the examples that could be given, if space permitted, that support the validity of “Freewill,” and which examples would work, perhaps as well, I have nevertheless chosen Henry Ford because his story is most remarkable in that it embodies, as nearly as possible, the actual essence of “Freewill.” Henry Ford made a monumental decision at the young age of 16 that he wanted to become an apprentice mechanic. Now that does not sound like a monumental decision, but it definitely was in the case of Henry Ford. Unknown, perhaps, even to Henry Ford, his decision was destined to strip “Fate” of its theoretical power and become a perpetual herald to the eminence of “Freewill” - to the fact that an individual, not “Fate,” is responsible for his or her own state of affairs. Consider carefully the importance that one farm boy’s decision would have on this nation and the world. Because of this decision, Henry Ford would become the founder of Ford Motor Company; and although Eli Whitney was the first to introduce the assembly line method of production, Henry Ford, because of his monumental decision, was to become one of the first to apply the assembly line method of production to the mass production of affordable automobiles and is credited with contributing to the creation of the middle class in American society. Henry Ford’s achievement was labeled “Fordism” because it helped to revolutionize industrial production not only in the United States but also in other countries. Henry Ford did many other things, but this suffices to point out that his decision at age 16 to become an apprentice mechanic was a monumental decision, and it gives validity to “Freewill.” While most of the world knows of Henry Fords achievements, they do not know of the problem that Henry Ford faced at age 16 when he made his “monumental” decision to become an apprentice mechanic. Here was the problem that confronted Henry’s decision; and regrettably, it is still a problem that challenges many of us today - Had Henry earnestly believed in "Fate," as the majority does, he would have given up on his goal, resigned himself to the life of a farmer, accepting his “Fate” - a farm boy. |
While most of Henry's family and acquaintances saw Henry as a farmer, Henry was busy seeing himself as what he wanted to become and having the courage to take the necessary action to achieve it. This wasn’t always easy for Henry because his decision was not immediately accepted as popular by his family, especially by his father who, at first, was very obstinate about what he wanted Henry to become - a farmer; However, through the demonstrated determination to achieve what he wanted, young Henry's father, as did other family members, gradually came to accept and even to appreciate Henry's decision about what he wanted to become; and they saw living proof through Henry's own example, that each individual is a “Freewill” agent responsible for his or her own state of affairs - that an individuals state of affairs is determined most largely, not by “Fate,” but by specific actions that an individual chooses through “Freewill” to exercise.
Maybe you are still undecided about what goal you want to achieve, and/or you are still uncertain about which is right, "Fate" or "Freewill”? If so, then you are not alone. People will continue, at times, to have questions about which goals they should pursue and will continue to debate and disagree on the preeminence of “Fate” and “Freewill,” as they always have. It may prove of benefit in helping you arrive at your own decisions about “Fate” and “Freewill,” to weigh the known facts. Namely, that while there is, admittedly, some circumstantial evidence that support a belief in “Fate;” however, there is no actual concrete proof that could justify a dogmatic view in favor of it - the same, however, cannot be said of “"Freewill". There is such a vast amount of tangible evidence in support of its validity, and the fact that you can change your state of affairs by taking appropriate action; that we cannot ignore the validity of “Freewill;” neither can we ignore its claim to preeminence - consider the example of Henry Ford. Add to this, the fact that there are dozens of others, like Henry Ford, whose names I have not mentioned; whose stories I have not yet told. Maybe you have an inward desire to be or to achieve some cherished goal, as did young Henry Ford who more than anything else wanted to be a mechanic apprentice. It may be a simple goal that everyone expects of you, or maybe your goal deviates a little bit, or quite a distance, from what is, or what you perceive is expected of you; and because of this, you are not exactly sure on how to proceed. In either case, do what young Henry did - listen to your inward yearning to be and to achieve what you want in life; not what someone else wants or expects of you - but what you want. And when you are firmly convinced about what goal you want to achieve, go after it like young Henry did; and like Henry Ford, do not alienate yourself from friends and family. Instead, let your determination win their approval and support. By recognizing and acting on his right to be a "Freewill" agent, young Henry Ford, with his newly acquired skills, was better suited to repair the farm equipment and still, at the same time, disciplined enough to exercise his obligation to help around the family's farm on his return visits and stays at home. The decision of one 16-year-old farm boy has benefited not only Henry Ford and his immediate family; but it has, and perpetually does, continue to benefit America, the world, and you and me. Can you imagine the magnitude of the potential loss that we would have endured were it not for the fact that Henry Ford chose to exercise his right as a “Freewill” agent? When you do likewise, what success story will you one day have to share? |