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 If I ever wanted to have the best of both worlds, I do now. In my previous post- Stay at Home Mom vs. Work at Home Mom I talked about my troubles of wanting to work vs. just enjoying being home with my baby. That article got tons of traffic and I don't know if it was because you the reader related or simply wanted to know more about my struggle. I decided that I choose to have both work and being home and hope my gameplan helps you figure out yours. I've made it a part of my personal mission to create wealth while spending more than 65% of my time with my toddler. I estimate I have about 100 waking hours during the week. I have 35 hours available to get work (and other things) done and still spend 65 with my baby.
Below is how I've structured my working time around that goal. My working time consists of .....
- (10 hours) Mondays & Wednesdays from 9 AM - 2 PM (CST) while she's at Mother's Day Out. If you want to meet or talk with me, that's when to schedule for.
- (3 hours) Nap times on Tues/Thurs/Fri- 1 hour each. Good time to catch up on email, return phone calls, or write a post like this one.
- (10 hours) 2 Hours each weekday evening after she goes to bed, I'm staying up to do some work online. Can vary up to 4 hours or more depending on what need's to get done.
So here I've set aside 23 hours to work from home with uninterupted focus. With the ability to add another 10- 12 hours of work or other activities. Now if I apply the pareto principle or better known as the 80-20 rule which states- "roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes". I should be able to accomplish everything I need within those 20 hours and create the results I'm looking for without burning myself out.
I hope this helps other stay at home moms wanting be work at home moms (WAHMS) or dads (WAHDS), part time investors/full time employees, grandparents who take care of grandchildren that have lost a major part of their retirement cash in the stock market, and everyone else create an action plan for themselves on how to spend their time the way the choose.
Time is one of the few intangible valuable things we have in limited supply.
Here's to Education, Wealth, and Freedom! - Flower De Raadt
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Stay at Home Mom vs. Work at Home Mom |
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 The excitement of new year resolutions and thoughts of conquering the world have begun to diminish while another week in the second month of this year begins.
I started out my real estate newbie journey looking for a way to spend more time with my daughter. Exactly one year ago, I walked into my first Nouveau Riche meeting with that exactly on my mind. How can I make tons of money while being able to stay home with my baby (then only 8 months old). I finally have that. Well, the staying home part. I've moved about 80% away from my marketing executive role, cut my expenses dramatically enough to live on just my husband's salary, halted any unnessary spending, and am now spending about 85% of my awake time each week with my daughter. I've become jealous of my time and have said "no" to many business building activities and have said "yes" to tickle wars and reading stories and playing with play dough.
How does a work-a-holic turned mom-a-holic balance today's wonder years with tomorrow's golden eggs? That is my personal journey and current struggle. I've asked for advise from several sources. Self-made millionaire and founder of MillionaireMom.com, Joyce Bone, advised early in this year via Twitter: MillionaireMoms @renewbie "I feel for ya! Been there. Figure out cash needs & work only enough to fill it until your toddler goes to school. Time goes fast!" I appreciate the advise and to be honest, that simple short conversation gave me the permission to just be "mom" and not kill myself trying to accomplish more than what I could handle. But now realizing that I've set some pretty high expectations not only for myself, but for my career goals, my family, and how I plan to give back and help others in need, I know that my life is not just for me and I can't really wait another 3- 6 years (depending on whether we have another baby!) until they go to school. Today, in my Mastermind group, I posed my struggle to the group. One person advised, "Think about your efforts into your business as doing it FOR your daughter. That will make it worth it." Great advise again. But how to implement it without feeling torn between both!
So here is what I'm proposing. I want this blog to be filled with quality content that will aid you (and I) in becoming a successful real estate investors. But I will also add from time to time how I'm accomplishing it while still being able to spend the majority (more than 65%) of my time being a mommy to my toddler. Imagine, if I can do it, there is no reason a full-time employee/ part time investor, stay at home mom like me, college student, recently unemployed, or anybody else can't do it. If there is something that I'm learning from successful real estate investors through my podcast interviews and one on one meetings is that "Systems, Systems, Systems!". So here's to learning how to implement such magical machines! Tomorrow, I air my podcast interview and adjoining blog post with John Dessaur, multi-millionaire and successful real estate investor, but I will detail soon some ideas to how to make it all happen and look forward to your suggestions and comments.
Here's to Education, Wealth, and Freedom! - Flower De Raadt
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