Family Yoga Lesson

   Poof! You are a millionaire. Poof! You are 125 pounds lighter.

Wish it were that easy? Check this out . . .

Have you ever started New Year’s Resolutions and failed? Or just started projects but being a mom always took over everything else in your life you were looking to achieve? It’s so easy for us to focus on everyone else but ourselves as caregivers. But I have an answer for you.

This is a solution that you can start anytime, achieve goals in short increments, have accountability and a support system all over the world.

I am on day 3, of season 1 of the 100-Day Reality Challenge. You can sign up at CCOR or Co-Creating Our Reality page to start and create your own reality.It works with the universal laws and you choose your own practices to achieving your goals and expectations within your 100-Day Season.

What are some of my goals? I want more energy, so I have been dragging myself out of bed earlier to exercise and my kids are exercising with me so it’s becoming a family thing! pretty fun. I also want to attract prosperity ($500,000 to be exact), just enough to pay off some things and purchase the home I have my eye on.

My other intention is to work on projects I have been wanting to create for some time now and one of them is this blog!

I will post videos on my Youtube channel of my progress so keep an eye out. I created a new blog channel called iMomNetwork.

What are some goals you would like to achieve but something in your life felt like it was blocking you? Start co-creating your reality today. When you join be sure to stop by my page and say hi and share your intentions for your season!

And Baby makes 5!

     OMG! It’s been a hectic several months. Our 3rd child, Makayla Reese Smith was born July 28, 2009 and we haven’t slowed down since. Devin, 5, started kindergarten in Sept. and Olivia, 4 started a new preschool. And did I mention we moved to bigger home and are still in the process of selling our current one?

I am finally making my way back to work online. I am just thinking of all that time I wasted before I had children when there was no scheduling, no driving kids to sports, activities and school. No diapers. No midnight feedings . . . It’s all worth it, but I have made peace with the fact I will never have a good night’s sleep again. Like ever.

Blog Traffic Tips

Forums are concentrated communities of highly targeted prospects that are all interested in the same things.

Why are they a great place to market your home business?

1. Forums are HIGHLY targeted.

2. You can learn great new tips and tricks on any particular topic.

3. Your links remain over time and increase in number with every one of your posts.

The biggest reason that forums are a great place to market your business is that people that click through to your ads will already be familiar with affiliate marketing or internet marketing because those are the types of forums where you’ll be promoting your business.

If a prospect from a home business or affiliate marketing forum sees value in what you’re promoting and joins your business they’ll already know how to get off to a fast start without your help.

You’ll be promoting your business through what’s called a “signature box”. I don’t get thousands of hits a day, but I probably get 20 – 30 highly targeted hits on average. With forums, that’s enough. It’s a constant flow that slowly grows over time.

If you post a comment on a highly viewed thread hundreds of prospects in a single day may see your signature box advertising your lead capture page.

I want to make it very clear that you should not post a comment just to get your signature box seen. This is SPAMMING and it’s distasteful.

The other forum members will know what you’re doing and they will remember you as being someone that tries to take away from the community instead of trying to add to it. Only add to the discussion if you have something of value to include otherwise just read, learn, and wait for your turn to chime in.

How do you find forums?

Just go to Google and do a search for home business forums or network marketing forums, you get the idea. Save yourself some time, if it looks like no one has made a post in a forum for the past month it’s probably not worth your time.

Here are a couple I visit regularly: wahm warriorforum

First you just register as a member of the forum, set up your “signature box”, and then simply participate.

Like I said before don’t SPAM! Chime in when it’s your turn and don’t be afraid to ask questions. If you’ve had a burning question that you haven’t been able to find the answer to – forums are the best place to ask that question.

Find 5 forums in your target market and register yourself as a member. Commit to making a least three posts per day per forum from here on out.

Signature Tip: Always send people to your personal capture page that will grow your own list!

Sample Signature:

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By: Debbie Penner

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Essential Tips for Working Moms

If the pressure of balancing your work and parenting is ultimately leading you to give both your work and family less, it is time to find a new parenting strategy and quick! When a work from home mom decides to set clear boundaries and manage her time effectively she can dramatically reduce parenting stress and boost her parenting joy. So let’s get started.

Six Essential Work Life Survival Parenting Tips for the Work at Home Mom (WAHM)

Your happiness as a work at home mom (WAHM) depends on your commitment to following these six parenting time management tips:

1. Ban your open door policy. Set your work hours and stick with them. Unless your job requires you to answer the phone, answer it only on your schedule. A work at home mom (WAHM) has no time for distractions (especially from your kids and spouse—likely your biggest distractions). This only leads to low productivity. Make certain every member of your household knows the times of day when you are and are not available for interruptions and stick with this schedule.

2. Involve your family in what you do. Talk about what you do, ask your family to help solve work problems (children often find very creative solutions), and let them help you with small jobs like licking envelopes. One work at home mom I know asked her nine year old daughter to answer the business telephone when the receptionist called in sick, on one of their biggest sales days. This boosted her daughter’s self-esteem and also helped her appreciate how her mother’s work put a roof over her head, food in her mouth and clothes on her back.

3. Consciously make the transition from work to home. When it is family time, focus on the family. Make certain you have cleared the work cobwebs from your head. Write down your to-do list for the next day and ask yourself before you leave your desk, “How can I make my time with my family special?” Then smile and give them a hug when you see them. Too tired? Take a 20 minute cat nap, a quick walk, meditate for a short while or say a little prayer to let go of your day, so you can be all they deserve you to be.

4. Remember it’s about quality time, not quantity time. When you are with your family, be with your family. Leave work behind so you can focus on them. “Light up” as soon as they come into the room and find fun ways to do mealtimes, and even clean-up times together. Half an hour of positive can prevent dozens of hours of misbehavior.

5. Solve misbehavior time-wasters. As a family counselor, I regularly hear variations on the complaint, “My kids are driving me crazy, but I’m too crazy to find time to learn how to stop them from driving me crazy.” There are simple ways to motivate your children to want to be well behaved. Invest the time now, so you don’t spend more time and frustration later on (which of course takes away from time you can devote to your work).

6. Schedule your self-care time. The most critical key to your WAHM success is to nurture some of your needs so you can continually renew your passion for parenting. You need time to replenish your energy so you can be more efficient, productive and happy. With so much on your plate it is essential that you schedule a minimum of 20 minutes a day for you. Before or after the kids are in bed is generally the easiest to stick with.

By the way, if putting your self-care needs first makes you feel guilty and selfish, then don’t do it for you—do it for your family. It is time that your self-care became a necessity, not a luxury so you can give more to all you do—at both work and home. Remember that if you are emotionally and physically healthy, you will be able to give more quality time to your family.

The six parenting time-management tips above will allow even the busiest work at home mom to finally have her cake and eat it too. By successfully balancing work and family, you will model for your children a fulfilled and healthy woman and your family will no longer have to deal with a “burnout-mom” but a happy one!

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By: Kelly Nault-Matzen

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