Striking the right home/work life balance is difficult enough, add to that you’re a network marketing mom who actually works from home and the whole situation gets a lot more complex. Seeing as the two are in the same place it can be difficult to separate the business woman from the mom, but rest assured we’ve got the go-to guide for getting it just right.

1. BEING A
DUBLI NETWORK
MOMPRENEUR

2. How to Work From Home –
Tips of the Trade
Working from home in network market-
ing or the direct selling industry is fan-
tastic, entrepreneurial, with opportuni-
ties abound! Up until the neighbors start
a massive reconstruction of their home,
your Internet service goes out due to rain
or the dog gets out the back door unbe-
knownst to you. If you were to work in
an office, coworkers would often pose
the greatest threat to keeping you from
getting some quality, heads-down work
done. They drop by your desk. They en-
gage you in conversation. They invite you
to lunch. At the home office, however, it’s
easy for you to become your own worst
enemy. At the home office, no one’s
watching. You don’t necessarily feel that
same peer pressure or communal obli-
gation to get stuff done. (Also: You don’t
have to wear pants).
Working from home or being a “mompre-
neur” does come with many benefits but
also can present several challenges. To
be successful in managing your schedule
and that of your children and family takes
time, consistency and persistence. For ex-
ample, taking your kids to school because
you work from home doesn’t necessarily
mean it’s the “right” thing to do. Just be-
cause you can do something doesn’t mean
it’s the best use of your time. Herein, we
intend to give you several suggestions to
help you manage your work/life balance
towards achieving success at your work
from home business.

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Look at your schedule to be certain you have
the hours you need to complete your work
firstbeforedeterminingwhetheryoucanadd
in all the other things in your life you’d like
to accomplish. To start, keep track of your
time and various activities for one week and
then measure how many hours you spend
accomplishing each task. Study the com-
plete picture as a means for getting a better
sense of where you’re spending your time.
Many who have done this were shocked at
how much more time they spend with their
kids during the early-morning hours. There
is no rule that family time must be spent in
the evenings. If elementary school starts at
9 and your kids wake up at 6:30, that’s a lot
of time, yet most don’t think of that as family
time. Let’s be honest, your kids don’t nec-
essarily care when they spend quality time
with you only that they do. Unless of course
these hours are your most productive time
Keep Track of Time
for work, but we’ll get into that more lat-
er. Seeing where you’re spending time to-
gether as a family, even if it’s over a bowl
of cereal, and not doing some fun activity
like going to Chuck E Cheese, can help the
time-starved entrepreneurial mom feel bet-
ter about the hours they spend working. It’s
important you manage both your work and
family time. Your “to-do” list is always going
to be too long. Prioritize it.
If you’re a morning person, wake up before
your kids, put on a pot of coffee, and start
working immediately – much earlier than
normal working hours. Only start making
breakfast once you’ve hit a wall, when your
kids are hungry, or you need a break. Pre-
tend like you are going into the office. Get
fully ready for the day and pretend you’re
going to work in an office. Otherwise, you
might be inclined to go back to bed.

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While working on weekends tends to get
a bad rap, entrepreneurs can actually use
weekend time to achieve a better work-life
balance with minimal expense at missing
out on family time. For moms who were
busy doing kid-related stuff during what
would normally be a regular workday, or if
they limited their work hours to school hours
only, there is often valuable work time miss-
ing from their lives. It’s hard to run a busi-
ness with only 35 available hours a week.
To compensate, many work-from-home
parents work five hours on the weekend,
while their kids are with the other parent,
which makes it possible to still work enough
Work on Weekends
hours. However, we must remind you, it’s
not about quantity of work hours but qual-
ity. If you are someone who can complete
two hours of work in the same amount of
time that someone else can accomplish in
four, by all means, we salute you! When you
run your own business, working nights and
weekends are a fact of life. But you will be a
lot more productive if you set a schedule for
yourself. Decide when you’ll work and when
you won’t. Think about what you can real-
istically get done around doctor’s appoint-
ments and school schedules. If you must
put in weekend hours, limit them, so you’ll
still have time to enjoy your family.

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Finding time to exercise and take care of
yourself may be at the bottom of an entre-
preneurial parent’s to-do list, self-care is a
key component to finding time to do it all.
It’s how you find the energy to do every-
thing that’s on your plate. Self-care – phys-
ical activity and sleep, for example – don’t
take time; they make time. That time gets
paid back in renewed focus for the rest of
the day. Carve out decompressing time into
your schedule. If you regularly go to bed at
11, plan to stop work at 10 so you can relax
for an hour – take a bath, watch TV, read a
book, or do something for yourself to disen-
gage and get ready for the next day. It seems
to be common thought nowadays that being
the leader of a company and being a parent
are mutually exclusive roles, and that is just
not true. Although it can be difficult to strike
a balance and be great at both, it is not im-
possible. All it takes is a little bit of strategiz-
ing and commitment.
Take Care
of Yourself

6. For example, set the rules that you will never
miss one of your children’s sporting events,
drop your kids off at school twice a week;
and wake up early enough to make and eat
breakfast with your kids every day. On the
days you are on school drop-off duty use
that time to bond with your children in the
car. Make exclusive mommy/child time with
each of your offspring so that they know
that you care and want to spend quality time
with them as individuals. Solid organiza-
tional skills will help you as well. Coordinate
the timing of after school activities among
all your children and make sure they are all
on the same schedule to have their annual
check-ups.
Setting these rules will help you to structure
your schedule and make time to fulfill your
role as a parent. Choose a few requirements
and make sure you fully commit to them, re-
gardless of what work issue may come up.
Once you start letting things slide, the entire
purpose of setting these rules has been lost.
Set your rules and stick
to them

7. While it doesn’t always feel like it, work can
usually wait.
Letting work consume your life and im-
pact the joys you receive as a parent is
unhealthy and a hindrance to producing
quality work. When you get home, put
away your phone until your kids go to bed
and return emails and phone calls later on
in the evening.
If something is a true emergency, your
team will know how to reach you through
channels other than email. The small win-
dow of time you spend with your kids at
dinner and bedtime is incredibly valuable,
and it’s perfectly fine to take off your work
hat and put on your parent hat.
Be aware that work can
usually wait

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