Do you lie to yourself?

By Nomad Mom

Whether it’s the New Year or a June Saturday at the beach, everyone has dreams for their lives. As I rang in the New Year, I sat and read about New Year’s Resolutions. And I found that 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail by February. That got me to thinking. People set goals with good intentions and then just abandon them. Are they lying to themselves? Do you lie to yourself about your goals?

Hear me out. What is it that causes a person to make a fantastic (achievable goal) only to throw in the towel within 4 months (or less)? Do they want to achieve that goal less than someone else? Maybe. Are they unwilling to do the work? Perhaps. More often than not, there’s little to no difference between people who achieve their goals and those who flame out. Strangely enough, the reason one person succeeds and the other fails has less to do with each person’s personality than it does with their relationship to honesty and promises.

Do you lie to yourself about your goals?

See, setting goals is a lot like making a promise to ourselves. For instance, “I promise to lose 20 pounds in the next 6 months” is a goal but it’s also a promise that I make to myself.

So, when we abandon our goals, we’re not only giving up we’re also lying to ourselves and breaking a promise that we’ve made to ourselves.

You wouldn’t break a promise to a kid, would you?

I hope not.

Why would you break a promise to yourself? Why would you lie to yourself?

Yep, you lie to yourself. Now, what do you want to do about it?

You can’t fix a lie.

I hate to burst your bubble, but you can’t fix a lie to yourself or to anyone, really. There’s no way to unlie. It’s not even a word.

So here’s what you do.

You’ve got to change the way you think about yourself and how you think about promises.

I’m willing to bet that when you give your word, you stand by it; you keep your promises to others. That’s called integrity. You do what you say you’ll do.

Here’s the trick though. You have to hold yourself as just as important (and deserving of integrity) as you hold other people. In other words, treat yourself with the same respect you treat others. Don’t lie to yourself.

Because you deserve to reach your goals, even if it’s uncomfortable and inconvenient. What’s more, if you agreed to help someone else, you’d do it. So, be the same reliable friend to yourself as you are to others.

Don’t lie to yourself. Here’s how to keep your own promises.

We agree. Lying is bad and when you lie to yourself, it’s the worse. So, don’t do it.

When you set goals (or make promises to yourself) for your life, be kind to yourself and see them through — just like you would for someone else. Use these 3 tips to keep your own promises and achieve your goals.

1. Be A Catalyst, Not A Victim.

So many people live their lives always blaming something or someone for their lot in life. Whether they have a crappy boss or their client is too picky, a victim is never responsible for what’s going on in their life. Don’t be a victim; be the catalyst. A catalyst is a person who rises to any challenge and finds solutions. A catalyst makes stuff happen no matter their circumstances. Be a catalyst

2. Make A Plan And Follow It

People who follow through on their promises to other people have a plan for how they’re going to make it happen. If you promise to make a cake for a bake sale, you just don’t cross wait until an hour before the event and cross your fingers, hoping you have all of the ingredients. You make a plan. You buy the ingredients and schedule time to make the cake.

The same is true for your promises to yourself. Make a plan and follow through.

3. Be Stubborn

When you’re a catalyst in your life, no matter what happens you stay the course and work toward your goals. You have to be stubborn and don’t let anything stop you. Not people’s opinions, sleep, work, or family obligations. Nothing. You have to be stubborn AND a catalyst. When circumstances arise to knock you off track and decimate your goals, you have to find a solution to keep you moving forward without neglecting your other promises and responsibilities.

No matter what…

Stay on your toes. If it was easy, you’d be a skinny, billionaire, lounging on the beach in Bali.

Just don’t lie to yourself. Don’t make a promise and then just abandon it. You deserve more than that. And if you can keep promises to other people, you can and owe yourself the same level of integrity.

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Ditch Your New Year’s Resolutions

By Nomad Mom

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Every December/January, do you set New Year’s Resolutions? Well, by February, 80% of New Year’s Resolutions fail. So, what’s the point? Right! So, I’m going to say it. It’s time to ditch your New Year’s Resolutions.

But not completely.

If you’re a mom, it’s time to ditch your New Year’s Resolutions (because they mean nothing) and it’s time to start doing some sh*t. These 8 tips will show you how.

Instead of setting lofty goals once a year, why not set reach goals multiple times a year? Last year, I read The 12-Week Year. It was life changing! And I decided to ditch my New Year’s Resolutions and to start setting aggressive 12-week goals.

If you’re ready to ditch your New Year’s Resolutions BUT you want to actually achieve some amazing goals this year, it’s time to adopt a 12-week mentality. Here are 8 steps to ditch your New Year’s Resolutions and still achieve your goals.

8 Steps To Ditch Your New Year’s Resolution

1.Visualize

WHAT you really want to achieve. It’s important to be totally honest with yourself about what you want to achieve by the end of 2018. What’s your massive mama goal?

2. Set Your New Year’s Resolution.

Yep, before we ditch the New Year’s Resolutions, you’ve got to know what you’re ditching. You’ve got to get it out of your system.

3. Think SMART goals.

No matter what your New Year’s Resolution is, you need to create SMART goals. S-Specific, M-Measurable, A-Achievable, R-Realistic, and T-Timely. A lot of time we have these really lofty ideas, but they’re intangible. We want to lose weight instead of we want to lose 20 pounds OR we want to be more organized instead of we want to start meal planning every week. Set SMART goals.

4. Ditch that Resolution.

So now, take that resolution and break it into thirds. If you want to lose 20 pounds, break that 20 pounds into 3 sets of 7 pounds. Now, forget the resolution. Your new goal is 7 pounds.

5. Create A 12-Week Year Plan.

Forget your resolution. A year is too big and you’ll totally lose interest. You’re going to break your goals down into 12-week goals. So, every 12-weeks, you’re going to plan to lose 7 pounds, or you’re going to meal plan every week for 12-weeks.

6. Mark Your Calendar.

You need to know exactly when your 12 weeks start and end. When you break your goals into 12-week periods, you’re setting yourself up to win. It’s a helluva lot easier to stay focused for 12 weeks than it is to stay focused for a whole year.

7. Celebrate.

At the end of each 12-week period, you’re going to celebrate whatever you achieve.

8. Rinse + Repeat.

For the next 12-week period, you can either keep your goals from the last 12-week period or you can add new ones. It’s up to you. Just remember to set SMART goals, create a 12-week plan, mark your calendar to keep you honest, and celebrate your wins.

Final Thoughts

By the end of each 12-week period, you will have achieved more than most people achieve in a WHOLE year. The secret of successful people is that we don’t wait until the end of the year to do great things. We do them right now. You can too. Just follow these 8 steps and you’ll be on your way to ditching your New Year’s Resolutions and charting a 12-week course to achieving your BIGGEST most life-altering goals.

If you’re super interested in the 12-week year, pick up a copy of the book on Amazon. It’s called The 12-Week Year by Brian P. Moran.

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5 Sanity Savers To Work At Home With Kids

By Nomad Mom

Let’s be real. When people say, “sanity saver,” they typically mean last ditch effort before you lose your mind. These 5 sanity savers to work at home with kids is just that. It’s a chance to take a breath and keep truckin’.

Being a parent can be really hard. Then, if you’re trying to work at home and create a business at home, it can get even more complicated.

How do you juggle, diapers, toddlers, boo-boos, playtime, naptime, meal prep, house cleaning, and grocery shopping while trying to launch a product, make a sale, or land that next client?

Sometimes, it feels impossible. But it’s not.

So, take a deep breath mama and let’s roll through these 5 sanity savers.

5 Sanity Savers To Work At Home With Kids

1. Timing is everything.

Before the husband, the house, and the kiddos, there was just you (cue the choir of angels), and you could do whatever you wanted when you wanted. Life was simpler back then. Now, not so much.

As a wife, mom, and everything that comes with those two mammoth monikers, you know that your time is not your own. In fact, generally, your waking time is spent caring for others and let’s be honest, sometimes your sleeping time is spent that way too.

So, during this life stage, it may be hard for you to carve out 3 hours of work time. You may not even be able to carve out one hour of work time. It’s ok. Try to plan out 20-25 minutes of work time three to four times a day. I can’t take credit for this idea. Rosemarie Groner, from the Busy Budgeter talks about how she used this type of plan to take her business from $18/month to $100,000/month.

It’s a good plan. If you know what you need to accomplish, breaking it up into bite-sized 20-25 minute chunks 3-4 times during the day makes you feel like you’ve actually accomplished something. It’s amazing.

2. You need a plan.

Now, if you’re going to break your work time into manageable chunks, you need to know what work to do with each time block BEFORE you sit down to work. With only 20-25 minutes, you ain’t got time to plan. You need to already have a plan or this sanity saver is a bust.

Once a week (I chose Sundays), sit down and plan out everything you want to accomplish during the week. Then break each of those tasks down into 20-25 minute chunks. So if you’re writing a blog post, the first 20-25 minutes could be the outline, and the next two 20-25 minute segments could be writing. Finally, your last 20-25 minute time block could be your graphics.

Now, you can do this with jewelry making, graphic design, writing, accounting, marketing, etc. It works for all tasks, and it’s a great way to keep your sanity with the kids while also feeling like a productive woman who’s handling her business. It’s amazing when you strike that balance between good mom vibes and successful woman, and having a plan will help you get there.

3. Protect your schedule.

Protecting the schedule is one of my key sanity savers when working at home with kids. My schedule allows me to know what’s for dinner, what kids get for snacks, what I need to work on each day, and how to prep for the next day. I protect my schedule because it’s what allows me to not only run my business but also to take care of my family.

When my schedule is wonky, my day is wonky and my family is wonky. We may not eat on time because I don’t have the dinner foods prepped to make a quick meal. When my kids don’t eat on time, they get HANGRY and then there’s a lot of chaos in the home.

If I don’t know what I’m supposed to do during my work segments, I waste time and then I don’t feel productive. Sometimes I may try to squeeze in a few extra minutes of work but then I forfeit time with my kids, and they notice.

If you’re looking for sanity savers to work at home with kids, look no further than your schedule. Not having a schedule is an issue and not protecting your schedule will cause issues.

Having and protecting your schedule is a sanity saver to work at home with kids.

4. Ask for what you need

Ok. This is probably the hardest thing to wrap your mind around as a mom, but you’ve kinda got to stand up and ask for what you need.

That means if you have a partner, you can ask for time to accomplish what you need.

Please do this. Don’t feel badly about needing to ask for what you need. So many of us moms just get used to doing it ALL, but it’s so important that you recognize what YOU need.

Then you need to ASK the people who love you and support you to help you from time to time. It doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you a healthy person who takes credit for their own needs and allows other people to support them. When you work at home, this is a huge sanity saver to work at home with kids.

5. Slow and steady wins the race

These are tried and true words of wisdom. At the end of the day, you don’t want to miss time with your kiddos and family, and you don’t want to jeopardize time spent on your business.

So, you just have to come to terms with the fact that you may not be an overnight success but you will be a success.

The great thing though is that you when you are a success, you will still have the same amazing family and you’ll keep all of the sane in your sanity.

Final Thoughts

You can be a work at home mom without losing your sanity. These 5 sanity savers to work at home with kids are amazing to help strike a balance among your marriage, kids, home, and your work. It doesn’t have to be hard. Keeping the crazy at bay just requires you to take ownership of it all — even noticing what you need and taking that seriously to ask for help.

You can do this. Did I miss a crazy amazing sanity-saving tip to work at home with kids that works for you? If I did, let me know in the comments below.

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One Simple Trick For Fast Business Results

By Nomad Mom

If you’re a mompreneur or you hope to soon start a business, getting results quickly and making money is our main objective.

But when our results don’t match our expectations, we can quickly become disheartened and lose interest. But if we stop working, all hope for success is lost.

The one simple trick for fast business results is a consistent effort.

Being consistent

You don’t have to be a prodigy or have a lot of degrees listed behind your name to be successful. You just need to show up every day willing to work without any credit or fanfare.

Being consistent matters for the same reason we make our kids practice the piano, violin, dance, painting (or whatever artistic expression they pursue). Practice makes perfect.

This isn’t just true with our kids. It’s also true in mom’s life too.

The practice of mommying

For example, when you first became a mom, you didn’t know a whole hell of anything. But every day you nurtured, fed and loved your new little baby, and you learned something.

The daily practice of mothering made you a great mom. I read somewhere that it takes something like 10000 hours of doing anything to become an expert. That means, as a mom dedicating 24 hours a day to mothering, it takes you just under 14 months to become a “mom expert” with each new kiddo.

Whether you wanted to become a ‘mom expert’ or not, you became one by virtue of having a baby. If we’re being honest, you may not even feel like a ‘mom expert’ but when you compare what YOU know now to what any childless woman knows about mothering, you are the expert.

The practice of becoming a mompreneur

Since practice makes perfect. If you want to be a successful mompreneur, you have got to be consistent in your work. The very act of being consistent will do two things: allow you to plan and strategize.

For example, you’ll quickly discover what you DON’T know. Believe me. There may be a lot of things you don’t know. But by consistently (daily) working on your business, you’ll be able to plan and prioritize your professional development.

Since you’ll be working on your business daily (even a consistent 30 minutes counts), you’ll see what works (or doesn’t work) for your business, and you’ll be able to strategize. You’ll take steps to either expand or course correct the various parts of your business and work life.

Creating Fast Business Results – Be consistent

You want to create fast business results, but being consistent with your business may seem impossible (at first). Being consistent is one of those things that’d be nice to have, like a spa day or the ability to sleep all night without a small child needing you.

It’s not. Starting a business AND being consistent is not impossible.

When you’re first getting started, you’re not going to have a lot of time. That’s ok (for tips on creating time read How To Make Time To Make Money

At the very beginning, you only need to find an hour. And the great news is that it doesn’t have to be all at once. If you can’t sit down for 60 uninterrupted minutes, it’s really ok. You can plan to do three chunks of 20 minutes.

When you only have 20 minutes of focused work time, you need to be super clear about what you want to accomplish. To do this, you need to PLAN + STRATEGIZE in advance.

The Mompreneur Work Plan

This plan works from the very beginning and scales when you start to either have clients as a freelancer or as your business starts to make money and requires more time. At the very start of your business, focus on working one to two hours a day. And as you grow, the plan will scale easily.

Step 1. Plan for 10 minutes before bed. Figure out what you have going on the next day, and squeeze in your work time. You need at least 3 blocks of 20 minutes. If you can work for longer spans of time or more frequently, great. It’s also ok if every day you work different hours. It’s your business.

Step 2. Strategize. Once you know WHEN and for how long you can work the next day, you need to figure out WHAT you’re going to do in each work interval. Now the secret here is to be realistic about what you can actually accomplish over the course of your day. It may take a week or so for you to get a feel for your work rhythm. The more consistent you are, the faster you’ll settle into this routine.

Use this 24-Hour Mama Planner to simplify your life. This FREE PRINTABLE is exactly the planner I use for my own weekly work scheduling. It’s simple but effective.

If you’re into planners, these Amazon weekly planners can also be helpful.

Step 3. Do the work. So, you can’t do all of the planning and strategizing but not do the work. Being consistent in your work is the whole point of this.

That’s it. Get to work. What’s your biggest struggle as a mompreneur? Leave a message in the comments.

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Do Moms Need To Make Money To Justify Motherhood?

By Nomad Mom

Being a stay-at-home mom may be the single least appreciated role for women, second only to the role of stay-at-home wife. But going back to the appreciation of motherhood, when did women start justifying their existence as mothers?

Moms, we’re always quick to highlight how busy and tired we are. We’re hustling to succeed at work or launch our business while trying to encourage a toddler to transition from diapers to big girl/boy undies in three days.

In THREE days!

Stress much?

It feels like motherhood has become this giant cesspool of stress, anxiety, and a need for never-ending success.

Now, I’m all about moms creating businesses and earning an income to support their families, but I’m also a big fan of balance, calm, and a peaceful spirit.

It worries me to see so many women stressed out on work, stressed out at home, and constantly adding more to their plates to prove ….their value, worth, bad ass skills? I don’t know what the end goal is, but I find myself asking, do moms need to make money to justify motherhood?

Is being a mom not enough anymore?

Recently, someone asked me what I did. I replied I’m just a mom.

It was my husband who corrected me. It was my husband who replied

She’s not just a mom. She’s a great mom, and she left her career writing contract proposals to travel the world with me. When she worked, she easily made more money than me, but she wanted a family. Now she writes an awesome blog that’s growing both in readership and revenue daily to inspire moms to start online businesses and see the world with their families.

God, I love my husband, and it took him standing up for me to realize I had devalued my own role as a wife, mother, and mompreneur. Because honestly, I’m not making the income I used to make in my career. I’m finally making something as a mompreneur but I have to remember that everything takes time. Afterall, it took me 10 years of daily grind to work from a starting salary of $20,000 USD to grossing over $100,000 with salary and investments.

When I lost my income, I felt like I lost my worth. I was just a mom.

It’s not cool to be a mom anymore. You have to make money. Do something interesting. No one cares if you’re just a mom.

Mother Boredom + Mother Guilt

There are so many people who tell me,

oh you’re so lucky to stay at home with your kids. You don’t have to work.

So honestly, I love being able to be home with my kids. My son developed severe eczema shortly after he was born and my daughter is an eternal ray of sunshine. It’s wonderful to be home with them and to cook for them, watch them grow, and play with them. It’s also nice to be able to focus on healing my son’s eczema.

It can be great to be a stay-at-home mom, but everything has two sides.

The other side of being a stay-at-home mom is the boredom and the proceeding guilt.

After all, as women born in the 70s and 80s, we were taught we could do and be anything we wanted. The sky was the limit they told us.

I recently had a “mompiphany” (aka mom+ epiphany). Balance does not and will never exist, and our goal should be to enjoy every moment of our lives and allow each moment to fill us with love and energy. This is never truer for moms.

Part of the just a mom issues we face is a fear of missing out. It’s sad to admit, but sometimes I fear that I’m missing out on life by being stuck at home as a mom.

Isn’t that sad??

There’s so much pressure to make money and to be successful that we sacrifice one of the (perhaps THE) most precious moments of life, the baby years of our children.

But the truth is….

The sky is still the limit.

The sky IS STILL the limit. Being a mom doesn’t have to limit what is possible in your life, but it may limit what’s possible in your life RIGHT NOW. That’s not to say that in the next three to five years other newer more interesting possibilities may not find their way to you.

That’s also not to say that you can’t (or shouldn’t) pursue your goals NOW. In fact, you can and you should pursue whatever personal and professional goals are in your heart to achieve.

Setting your mama intention

The point here for moms (AND dads) is to really set an intention for both parenting AND income-generation (or work). In many cases, moms HAVE to work, but work doesn’t have to necessarily be all or nothing. You pursue these goals with an intention to create a better quality of life and more quality time with and for your family.

Moms don’t need to make money to justify motherhood or themselves. Moms choose to pursue careers, side hustles, and businesses to improve the lives of their families. We don’t need to PROVE anything.

Final Thoughts

Ultimately, I think what we need to remember as moms is that the work is no longer about us. And while we should (and do) take pride in our accomplishments, we have to be completely clear about WHY we do all that we do.

Do you ever feel like just a mom? You’re not. Leave a comment below and share ALL that you do and the goals you have for yourself and your family. Go!

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10 Mompreneur Confidence Hacks When You Feel Like a Fraud

By Nomad Mom

So you’re a new mompreneur and you love your business, but you’re not making a whole lot of money. Sometimes you look at your business, your non-existent income, and all of the stuff you still don’t understand, and you feel like a fraud. And you find yourself asking, Why would anyone hire me? To get through these low moments, here are 10 mompreneur confidence hacks when you feel like a fraud.

1. Examine the facts

This may seem a bit naive, but it’s helpful, really. Take a second and just look at the facts. Are you in business? Are you new to entrepreneurship? Do you have business goals? Are you creating products or services? Have you asked anyone to test the products or services for free? What have they thought and what feedback did they provide?

If you can answer any or all of these questions then you’re most definitely NOT a failure. I would venture to say you’re just in process. You’re in the creative process. If you can look at the list of questions above and see things that you haven’t done, get to work. You’re not going to be a success if you don’t do the work.

So the next time you feel like a fraud, take a step back and examine the facts. Feeling like a fraud is temporary. It’s what my former life coach, Ileana Ferreras, used to call false evidence appearing real (FEAR). Feeling like a fraud is just a whole lota fear.

Next time, shake off the FEAR with facts. Facts never lead you wrong.

2. Everyone starts at the beginning.

This is a great sentence to print and post near your work area (or tape on the back of your laptop).

Everyone starts at the beginning.

And you’re no different than anyone else. You have to start from the beginning too. Sometimes the beginning is slow and icky, especially if you want to start your business and skip over all of the learning and growing pains and head directly to the massive cash windfall and recognition that comes with the time and work.

You’re a mama, you didn’t just get pregnant one minute and have that baby the next month! You waited and nurtured that little baby in your body for 40 weeks before you ever met face to face.

This leads me to my next confidence hack for you.

3. Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.

In Tim Hiller’s book Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters he says:

Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle, or your middle to someone else’s end. Don’t compare the start of your second quarter of life to someone else’s third quarter.”

As a rule, comparing yourself or your business to anyone else is a recipe for bad feelings. Don’t do it. Just be yourself. Do you. You are on a personal journey that only you can walk. It may take you 10 months to meet your business goals while it takes someone else 5 years (or vice versa).

Be kind to yourself and remember you are walking a path that is meant for you (and only you). Embrace your path and keep striving for your goals. Don’t let your circumstances deter you.

4. Visualize the future you’re working toward

This may sound a little “woo woo” to some of you but it works for me and is one of my daily practices. Every day, I take a few minutes to visualize how I want my business to look and how that business success will impact my family, me, and all of the people who I am able to bless with my gifts and talents.

For me, that looks like inspiring women from all walks of life and all over the world to start online businesses to create more flexibility, income, and financial independence for themselves and their kids. I want to see mothers fulfilled professionally while still being able to take an hour or two sit on the floor and play with their kids.

Those are the types of things I visualize because those are my personal and professional goals for my business, to create financial independence for my family and to support other women to do the same.

Practice visualization for a few minute a day. Even two minutes will help you. And as you build a muscle around visualization, you may choose to visualize for five minutes or more.

Hear me out. I’m not advocating visualization for the sake of daydreaming, but when you feel like a fraud, visualization may help remind you why you’re doing all of this work and help you slough off the negative emotion.

Give it a shot.

5. Do the unthinkable, and share it.

When we start to feel inadequate, we automatically shut down and isolate ourselves from others. We don’t share our feelings of inadequacy; we hide them. So, break the mold. Be brave and share your feelings with other entrepreneurs.

Join a Facebook group. There are plenty of mompreneur Facebook Groups out there. If you’re already a member of a Mompreneur Facebook Group and you usually just lurk and read other people’s posts, do something new and post a new thread or comment on someone else’s question.

If you have other mompreneur buddies, call a friend.

My point here is don’t allow yourself to wallow in that feeling alone. Share it with a friend and let them help you dig yourself out of the negative hole you’ve fallen in.

6. Accomplish ONE New Thing.

In my experience, feeling like a fraud is usually directly related to having not been productive. A quick fix for that is to identify ONE thing you can sit down and complete.

The feeling of completing something, following through on an action, and finally crossing it off of a to-do list is one of the most rewarding feelings (for me).

It’s a quick and easy way to wash away negative feelings and create a fresh perspective for yourself.

7. Find A Course

All of us have areas in our lives and in our businesses where we could benefit from learning a bit more. There’s nothing wrong with admitting you want to learn more about a certain topic related to your business. In fact, it’s an honorable thing to identify an area where you could use some improvement and take action.

The act of finding a course to help you learn more about a given subject matter is a wonderful way to allay feelings of unease or feelings of failure. Finding a free online course is always a quick and easy pick-me-up for me.

8. Review (or create) monthly goals

When you feel like a fraud you’d generally think that reviewing your monthly goals (which you may not be meeting) is only going to make you feel worse.

Ok, so in the short term, maybe you’ll feel worse. However, if you review your monthly income goals (or create them if you don’t have them) you can create a realistic plan for achieving that income goal.

It may be that you need to focus on promotions a little differently or you may need to do more content creation. The thing is, when you look at your goal and compare it to your reality, you will have a better idea about how to start working to achieve your goals.

When you have a goal and you create a realistic plan to achieve that goal, you start to feel better because you have a plan that you can commit to achieving AND you start to realize how possible your goals are.

9. Join A Mastermind Group

Working with other mompreneurs (in person and online) is an amazing feeling. A Mastermind Group can be paid or free, and it’s a group of entrepreneurs who are looking for support, encouragement, and to network with like-minded entrepreneurs at all levels of business creation. They may be more advanced than they are or just starting out.

The more you network, the more you realize it’s not about how much experience you have or how long you’ve been in business, it’s just about you. Each person has different talents and skills to offer in any situation. You have talents and stuff to work on—just like everyone else.

When you’re feeling down, a group like this is an amazing resource to dissect your business and laser in on the areas that may not be working optimally.

Mastermind groups are a bit tricky to find but ask around in your existing networks and if all else fails, create your own.

10. Have a naked dance party or exercise

I mentioned this earlier but feeling like a fraud is your mind playing tricks on you. You are not a fraud, and you just need to shake off that negative energy. So if none of the tips above work for you, have a naked dance party in the privacy of your room or go exercise (preferably with clothes).

Remember, this feeling you’ve got going is temporary. Don’t treat a temporary feeling like a permanent problem. Let it go as quickly as it arrived. Hopefully, these ten tips will help you shake off the feelings of fraud and embrace the fact that wherever you are in your business is exactly where you’re supposed to be right now. We all learn at different places and in the next moment, things could be totally different.

Being an entrepreneur is a rollercoaster; just hold on!

What do you do when you feel like a fraud in your business or things aren’t going the way you want? Leave a comment below.

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