Make Your Own Home Office

This is not about how to design a home office, but to make sure that it’s so important for work at home moms to have their personal home office.

If you are a working at home mom, I believe you understand how precious is your working time, as you have to make your own time in the middle of family routine, take care of your husband, home & kids (the latest will take your very best, I believe)

Working at home meaning more flexible time schedules, also flexible dress code (you even can work wearing your kimono and slippers), and maybe you are used to access your business phone from your kitchen.

But it’s not recommended for you wearing kimono and slippers while you are working, please moms, be professionals. You are working; this is a business not an evening nap. The clothes you wear will influence your mood & attitude, and you can not risk your business in a wrong attitude. Although you are not wearing a formal cloth, at least you can try to wear a more proper one when you are on your working zone.

Okay, enough with the dress code, we are talking about home office here.

Do you often disturb by your kids when you are working, I mean they grab your files and throw it away, or they use your pen to draw on the wall so when you need it you have to ask their favor to give it back to you?

Imagine you have your own home office, then tell your kids, this is mommy’s office, mommy is not playing around here, mommy work for the good of the family, and can give better education, more toys if mommy work. Not only that, tell your kids that they should not playing on mommy’s office nor disturb mommy when mommy is in her office, it’s like they are not allowed to disturb somebody else on church.

You might not need to have a closed room for your personal office (especially if your house not big enough for you to have a closed room only for you), but you could try to have a working zone, a corner that you could work without disturbance, it’s like your personal zone.

A working zone is also important for you, hopefully it develops your mindset, you are a working at home mom, you have your own business, and you should work there, be professional. Make your own time to work, a time when the kids doing their own activity, time when the family activity is minimum.

A business is not a business yet until you do it. Keep remember this if you want to succeed in your business.

Tips for working at home moms

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Often moms choose to run a home based business for extra earning, so they still can have quality time with their children & family.

However, business is business to be run although often moms can’t make a business time alone. It needs extra effort to work without children annoyance.

So, I want to share 5 tips for working at home moms:

1. Give your children something to do. When you needs concentration, better to do it when children go to school or have somebody play & watch over them.
   
2. Make yourself a working space, better if you have your own home office. But if you don’t have extra room, a corner space of your own would be enough. Explain to your kids that this is mommy office and mommy should not be bothered when she is working there.
   
3. Make yourself a schedule. It’s important as without a schedule you will tend to working around on so many things but not achieve much. And the most important thing, do your schedule without any excuses.
   
4. Be professional, although you might be used to wear whatever you like at home, you should look at yourself as a businessman. This will improve your business attitude as well.
   
5. Give your spouse understanding; ask him to help you with the children especially when you are busy. But please however family comes first as the main reason you are running home based business is for having quality time with your family.
   
6. Make list to do for your household activity as well, so you can be sure that it’s well taking care of.

Hope that list helps you working better at home.

You won’t be perfect at the beginning, but as the time goes by, I am sure you will be a better and efficient working at home moms. Don’t worry.

And if you have more opinions, suggestions, please feel free to write to me on the email below, Perhaps I would put it in this blog to be shared with other as well.

Working Moms

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Today I read my friend’s blog, and she tells her story as ‘working moms’. It’s very interesting, when she said that what challenge her to work from home is because she can not get up early in the morning, so wake up and go to the office is so not her.

Also that she want to be with her kids most of the time give her no choice than working from home. She can continue her sleep after the kids go to school. And then she can work at her own flexible time.

So, how about you? How about your wife? Are those 2 reasons gives enough reason to start a home business? Maybe you are interested in the growing up of internet business?

My friend said that it’s not easy at all to start work at home, to leave all the comfort she got from her monthly salary and benefit. But she has no choice. She wants quality time with her family.

And when it comes to the times of troubles, she keep on fighting, she stop to rest before she continue to fight the problems. What a mom she is.

She started as a freelance on the internet with USD 10 per article, and then she sold her friend product with 10% commission, and here she is now…. She can live well from her income (so sorry that I don’t mention her name here, as her blog is in Indonesian language only).

When you ask her whether she is satisfied with her achievement, she humbly said, satisfaction is not only about money, but family quality time also counted.

Talking about her dream, she dream to help others, not only material help but also motivate others to start a home based business.

What a woman and what a mom she is. My full respect for her.

Don’t you want to be like her? It must be great to work at home, give more choices of being a mom and working at the same time.

Imagine, by being a working mom, you not only achieve something for yourself, but also you are leading an example for your daughters that being a mom is not meaning all you career is over. A mom could be as productive as before and even more.

Please have a thought to be someone you want to be, someone who could bring good thing to her love ones.