Why Are You Working From Home?

Hey guys

I’ve been struggling mentally lately and I have had to have a really good look at what we are doing, what we are trying to achieve and the impact that all of that is having on our lives.

The glaringly obvious question that keeps kicking me in the ribs is “why we are doing this?”

See I love this business.

I love the fact that I can write what I want, when I want and that people actually listen.

I love the fact that I feel like I am contributing to something – rather than just being a Mom of 4 young kids.

We have been doing this for exactly a year, initially I was just doing it for 2 hours a day, now with a combined effort, and the help of a nanny we get around 4-5 hours a day.

For anyone that has been doing this for a while you will know that there is no way that we can achieve what we need to each day in that time frame. Well, not without some sort of serious outsourcing budget….which we don’t have.

So for all of that here’s our current Clickbank account screen shot……

Not exactly the stuff that dreams are made of eh? But we are actually OK with this because it at least means that the massive learning curve that we have been on is starting to pay off.

But lately something has had to give.

Between illness (ours, the kids and the Nanny’s), parent teacher interviews, other appointments, computer crashes and life in general I have only managed to get any decent time on the computer for maybe 4 days a week for the last month.

And boy was I getting grumpy.

I mean really grumpy…. Think ‘Hulk’ grumpy

It’s not like I had been mucking around for those 4-5 hours, no, I had been working diligently, always doing something constructive.

I was getting grumpy because whatever happened outside my business – like the nanny getting sick – was impacting on my business and my ability to get it up and running. And do you know what was happening?

I started taking it out on the very people that I was supposed to be home for.

And that’s when I realized something.

This wasn’t supposed to be a full time gig, at least not yet. It was supposed to be something that I could do to keep me sane and maybe earn a bit of movie money from.

See I already have a full time job and that’s looking after my family. I realized that if I kept on the way that I was that I was going to look back and regret not taking the opportunities that I have to watch my kids grow up. All for the sake of a tinnitus article or two. And I’ll have plenty of time to write those articles when all the kids are at school!

As one Affilorama member said, this time is not about getting paid for my services, this time is about planting seeds.

So why are you working from home? Is it purely for financial reasons? Is it so that you can have the best of both worlds with your family? Do you find yourself getting caught up in all the ‘success hype’ that seems to surround you?

Drop us a line and let us know….

‘Til next time,

see ya

Hey There…..just a quick  update, and just to let you know how weird things can happen in this business here is a screen shot taken just 6 days after the one above….

I know that it still isn’t the great fortune that we all hope for , but it is a few bob more than we thought we were getting too – now about that outsourcing……

See ya

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