What Is A Nomad Career Webover?

Anyone can be a nomad, but first, you need a career webover. What is a nomad career webover?

A nomad career webover is the process of transforming your career by using your existing skills, education, and personal hobbies to create a web-based business. Your career webover is what will allow you to become a nomad.

Now, before you get confused, at Nomad Mom Life, being a nomad is just as much of a mental mindset as it is a physical description. You can have a permanent home and be a nomad.

Once you have a business (or a job) that allows you to have the flexibility to be a stay-at-home mom and work from anywhere in the world you choose, you are a nomad. You can also be an actual nomad, like me, who travels the world with her family and works wherever she finds wifi.

DIY Career Webover

Now that you know WHAT a nomad career webover is, you need to understand how to DIY your own career webover.

Generally, I like to say there are three phases to your nomad career webover.

1. Self-Reflection + Brainstorming.

Starting anything new ~~requires~~ demands that you examine yourself. You need to take a look at your lessons, learning and loves. Examine your work, professional, personal, and academic skills and experiences.

At this point, it’s not about finding a money-making idea as much as you’re trying to find a synergy between your skills and your joy.

The foundation for your nomad career webover requires you to find the synergy between your joy and your actual skills. Because ultimately, if you don’t enjoy what you do—or worse—you don’t have sufficient proficiency, your online business won’t succeed.

At the end of this brainstorming exercise, you need to have a general idea of WHAT you’d like to do. For instance, you could write, provide graphic design, make jewelry, do YouTube videos, provide tax preparation assistance, you name. You can do it.

Ok, so here’s a caveat. At this point in your business, you don’t have to be an expert, but you do have to enjoy the work enough to WANT to become an expert. So if you love graphic design, but you’re not the BEST designer, it’s fine. You just have like and know enough about graphic design to take the courses and do the work to become the BEST designer.

Remember, getting started isn’t about being an expert. It’s about starting.

Once you find where your joy and your skills intersect, it’s time to form a business.

2. Business Formation

Phase number two is business formation. Now, full disclaimer, I can’t help you with the legal aspects of business formation, because each location has different legal and administrative requirements. I can help you create a business model for the purposes of starting to make an income online, using the self-reflection and brainstorming you completed in phase 1.

Creating a business can be intense and a bit scary. Before you get started, here are two great points to remember. First, everything is changeable and second, if you don’t know how to do something there’s a good chance you can either figure it out on your own or find someone (free or paid) to explain it to you.

So now that you have a general idea of WHAT you want to do, let’s get started on your business creation.

Identify Your Audience or Customer

As an employee, you work for a company. They’re your client. They hire, employ, and pay you. As a business owner, you get to decide who you want your clients to be. So, you need to understand WHO you want to work for.

If you want to create YouTube tutorials on makeup applications or fun hairstyles, you need to know WHO you want to be watching the videos. The same is true for a graphic designer, a freelance writer, a health coach, a bookkeeper, or a consultant. Who do you want to hire you?

Communicate With Your Audience

Now that you know WHO you want to work with you, it’s time to meet them and talk with them. That means you need to create a way to find where they hang out online and invite them to hang out with you.

You may be thinking, I don’t have anything to communicate. I don’t have anything to sell.

Right. You don’t and that’s a good thing, for now.

When you meet someone, you don’t automatically launch a product or service in their face. No. They would most like be appalled, perhaps a bit offended, and they most certainly wouldn’t buy from you. After all, they don’t know you, yet.

Enter your communications. You need to meet the people who you want to hire you. And since you’re starting an online business, you need to meet them online.

At this point, you may be asking… So, how do you meet people online?

Well, you need to create an online platform. Ideally, you’d create a blog/website with your own domain. If you need help getting started, I did an overview on How To Start A Blog.

Now, if for whatever reason, you can’t or don’t want to start a blog right now, you could create a public, Facebook Page.

The point here is to start creating targeted content that you can share publicly to find your ideal audience/customer. Then, start getting to know them. Figure out what they like, want, and need because the success of your career webover will depend entirely on your ability to create content, products, and services that your customers like, want, and need.

Create A Great Freebie + Start A List

As you’re building an audience of ideal customers, create something free to gauge their interest in the products or services you plan to offer. As a health coach, it could be something as simple as a free kid-friendly snack recipe, and you could offer it as a PDF for download. Whatever you create, be innovative and generous. Give more away for free than you’re comfortable giving. And try to add tremendous value to your ideal customer.

If you use a free email marketing and database service like MailChimp or Drip, you can start collecting email addresses of the people who love your free product. These are your people, and you need to get to know them so that you provide them with the services and products they want and need.

Create Your First Paid Offer

By this point, you should have a pretty clear idea of who your audience/client is and what he/she needs. If your first great freebie was a success, you could build on it and create a product or service that provides even more value than the freebie.

From here, the goal of your business is to create and price products or services in a way that benefits your customers and adds value to their lives.

3. Plan To Be A Full-Time Digital Nomad Mom

Remember, you can be a digital nomad mom from your laptop in your kitchen in the ‘burbs. Being a nomad mom is about creating location-independent income and having the options to live and work wherever you want.

So, once you create you launch your first product or service, you have a baby business. However, to complete your career webover, you need to make a full-time income from this baby business and sometimes, that takes time. Most digital nomad moms aren’t overnight successes, but you have to plan to go full-time with your business. Here’s what you need to do:

Start A Monthly Profit and Loss Statement

Determine how much money you need monthly to make a full-time income. Remember, you also need to take into account how much money it takes to run your business. The best way to do this is to start a profit and loss statement that list your business expenses and your business income.

When your business is covering your expenses, you’re making revenue. Figure out how much you need to make monthly to cover your expenses, have enough money to support yourself and your family, AND pay taxes. Don’t forget to factor in taxes; they are sneaky, but most people (no matter their country of residence) have to pay some form of taxes. So, everyone’s ideal amount of profit will vary substantially.

Set An Income Goal

Based on your profit and loss statement, set an income goal that states: By X date, my business will earn Y income. Then work backward from that “X” date to create a monthly marketing/advertising plan to meet that goal. Just work diligently toward your goal. You may not always hit them, but you’ll move closer to your full-time income number with each goal you set.

Final Thoughts

Giving yourself a career webover is not easy. It’s a constant uphill battle and only those willing to keep working, even when it’s hard and not quite working, are the ones who ultimately succeed in their nomad mom career webovers. Don’t expect to be an overnight success. Expect instead to work for six months to a year before you actually start build traction, but know (and remember) that the ability to create your own income and bless others with your product(s) or service(s) is a gift for you, your family and all who benefit from your services or product offerings. Invest in your gifts.

20 Ultimate Family Travel Gifts For 2017

By Nomad Mom

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Whether your family only travels during the holidays OR your family seemingly has gypsy blood, having the right tools for your family’s travel is essential for a happy holiday. Our family travels ALOT. Our kids have both taken multiple cross-Pacific flights in their short little lifetimes. So we know a little something about family travel. From our family to yours, here’s what we consider to be the 20 Ultimate Travel Gifts for Families.

If you’re planning holiday travel this year, you might find early an early Christmas present on this list to make your flight, road trip, or train ride, a little more civil.

Family Gifts for Everyone’s Use

These are gifts that everyone will benefit from using. They are the ultimate family travel essentials.

Adapters + Converters

If your family likes to take trips abroad, having power adapters and converters is key. For unknown reasons the plugs all over the world are different. The US has one type. The UK another. Europe still has another and all of Asia, India, Australia, New Zealand can be different. To add to the confusion, the voltages are also different. So not only do you need an adaptor but you may also need a converter. If you travel frequently, all of the adapting and converting can be a constant headache. Save yourself a headache and buy a universal adapter and a converter. These automatically change to whatever country you’re in. It’s pretty genius, actually.

1. Univeral Power Adapter

This adapter just helps you adapt the plug to fit your device. It does not do any power converting.

2. Power Converter and Adapter Combo

This is an adapter and a converter combination. It adapts to whatever region you’re in and it helps you convert the power voltage so you don’t fry your devices. Don’t ever use blowdryers or other high wattage devices in this, and just be careful. Killing your laptop on the first night of your stay in a new country is a big buzz kill.

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3. Luggage Scale

Family packing for air travel can be a bit chaotic. And overweight luggage fees can set you back $50 to $200. Having a handy, light, easy-to-pack luggage scale can save you hundreds in excess luggage fees. If you travel individually or with your family, even once in a blue moon, this is a handy little tool to keep in your toolbag.

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4. Packing Cubes

I doubt I’m the only person who likes to keep a neat suitcase and know where everything is without digging through everything and creating a chaotic mess.

Enter these packing cubes. With this 4-piece set, you can use a cube for undies, one for pants, one for shirts, and one for toiletries. That’s how I pack for myself and the kids. It makes hunting for clothes a breeze, and it could keep you from overpacking. Plus, these packing cubes come with a little laundry bag. So when you get home, you just dump the dirty clothes in the wash. Easy travel.

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5. Luggage Locks

This is new to me. Since the September 11th attacks in the US changed our sense of security and consquently the face of airline travel forever, I really never thought to lock my luggage. But I’ve been increasingly seeing locked suitcases on the baggage claim carousels. Curious, I thought I’d check it out. Evidently, you can still lock your luggage when you fly. (Gasp! I know, crazy!)

To lock your bags, you need TSA recognized (or approved) locks. So, locking your luggage still comes with a certain amount of risk. Namely, TSA may need to enter your bag. If you don’t use these TSA approved locks, your lock will be cut off. However, with the TSA approved locks, TSA has skeleton keys that unlock them.

The good news is: if you really want to lock your luggage, you can. The increasingly bad news (from my perspective), is first if you’re running late for a flight and TSA needs to enter your bag, the process of unlocking your bag, searching it, and then relocking it, could be the few seconds you needed to make sure your bag makes your flight. Second, if you’re traveling internationally with multiple stops, I just wouldn’t do it.

As you can tell, I’m not a luggage locker but if you are, these are the type of locks you need.

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6. Travel Pillow

I have a love-hate relationship with travel pillows. In my family, having four travel pillows is a bit of a hassel. Even when you fly alone, hauling a travel pillow is a bit of a pain. That said, I love the comfort a travel pillow offers during a flight or in the car.

I recently found the Travelrest. It fully deflates. So it folds down really small and inflates into a tube that you can comfortably sleep against. What’s even better is that, since it’s inflatable, you can control the firmness and softness of your pillow. Did I mention that you can deflate it?

Ok, so I haven’t tried this, but it’s on my list of travel goodies to try this next year. If you get around to trying it first, let me know how it works for you.

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7. Passport Holder

I never realized how important a passport holder was until my husband told me people have RFID handheld scanners that skim and copy your passport and some credit cards fitted with an RFID chip. Some of these RFID scanners have been known to skim your name, passport number, and country of origin and in some cases, these scanners have been able to steal entire credit card numbers.

Due to our frequent travel, out of precaution, we got RFID sleeves for our passports. This ACdream Leather Passport Holder with stylus, serves multiple purposes. It holds and protects your passports, credit cards, boarding passes, and it contains a pen. It’s a good buy.

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Gifts for Parents Traveling With Kiddos

No matter how much you prepare, traveling with kids is never the same as traveling without kids. But you can still find a little peace when you travel with your kiddos without overpacking, never getting a quiet moment, or feeling like a petri dish of travel germs. Parents, this list is for you.

8. Light Weight Packable Backpack

When you have kids, be they young or order, it’s always a great idea to have a little first aid, a few snacks, and maybe a bottle or two of water. Plus, I always travel with a few Clorox wipes, but that’s just me (I may be slightly OCD). The problem with backpacks is that it’s not easy to pack them. So you end up carrying it on the flight, even if you’d rather take another carry-on bag.

This ZOMAKE backpack is perfect for anyone who likes to have a backpack at the destination but doesn’t want to haul it around during their travel. It’s foldable and packs down into a small little pouch that squishes into your suitcase. I love it, and it comes in all of these great colors.

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9. Noise-Canceling Headphones

Before kids, I only used noise-canceling headphones to drown out the sound of other people’s kids. Now, I use them to take a break from travel (and to drown out other people’s children). My husband and I take turns getting a little “me-time” during a long trip to take a nap, zone out, or just go to the bathroom uninterrupted.

During my breaks, I use my noise-canceling headphones to decompress. I don’t suggest you wear them to drown out the sounds of your own kids (however much you may want to), but once you get them settled, these headphones are nice to create a quiet space for yourself.

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10. A Kindle

Ok, so there are a ton of choices for e-readers. All of them are excellent, but (in my opinion) the Kindle is the superior e-reader. I know you could get Kindle for ipad or a Nook, but none of them can do what the Kindle can do.

I have Kindle on my iPad, but when I really just want to sit down and read a good book, I pick up my actual Kindle because there are no distractions. It’s just like reading a book (but it’s thinner, lighter, and there are no pages). The backlight makes it easy to read in the sun, and this new Oasis Kindle has automatic backlight adjustments, which allows it to adjust the backlight to your environment’s natural light, giving your eyes an opportunity to rest.

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11. Travel Toiletry Kit (for women)

Whatever your mode of transportation, traveling can make you feel a bit grimy. Being in any place for 14-hours is rough. I love this little toiletry kid though. It has everything you need freshen up when you arrive at your destination AND to last you for a few days of your trip.

Generally, I take the liquid items (toothpaste, body wash, one lotion, etc) and stuff them in a clear ziplock bad to get through security screening. I keep a toothbrush, the deodorant, and the facial cleansing cloths in my carry on. Everything else generally goes in my checked baggage. Seriously though, it feels so amazing to brush my teeth, wash my face, and reapply deodorant before I greet the world at my next destination.

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12. Toiletry Kit for Men.

Dads also need to feel fresh. Traveling can make you feel depleted and worse than that, you could stink. Ha! And generally, once you reach your destination you either meet with family or friends or you’re taking a taxi to check into a hotel. You’re going to interact with people. Why feel (and smell) like you’ve just traveled for a full day? This kit has more than you’d ever need for a short trip.

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13. Digital Photo Frame

This gift is for the family that travels extensively OR families who travel extensively or just live really far from extended family could give this gift to their relatives. It’s a great way to keep family and friends current on all of your family’s adventures.

What I love about this frame is that it’s wifi compatible, and it syncs with a free online photo storage system that allows you share up to 10GB on photos. It’s the perfect gift for families and friends spread out all over the world.

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14. Clip-On Cell Phone Macro Lens

So for as much traveling as my family does, we don’t ever travel with a camera. Crazy right? We use our smartphones to take pictures. This little smartphone accessory bundle works with iPhones (what we have), but it’s supposed to also work on Android phones.

It’s easy to pack. It helps you take more “professional” looking photos, and it’s a lot cheaper than keeping up with all of the cameras out there. The only negative about this bundle is that the LED lighting doesn’t work with the iPhone 8 because there’s no earphone jack. But for the price and the ease of use, it’s still worth it.

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For Young Travelers

Traveling with kids doesn’t have to be sooo stressful. It’s always going to be slightly stressful but you can minimize your stress level by keeping them entertained and keeping the germs at bay (as much as possible).

15. Washable Markers and Travel Pad

This is a cute little marker set for creating and coloring on-the-go. The markers are washable (with a bit of scrubbing) off of little hands. When it comes to planning activities during long trips, this market and free draw paper set, when coupled with a coloring book, will buy a few minutes of happy silence from your youngest travelers.

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16. Magnetic Puzzles

My 3-year-old LOVES these puzzles! There are seven magnets and a little book of puzzles to create with your seven magnets. My husband and I have literally spent an hour playing puzzles with our daughter. She really enjoyed it. At three, she’s not quite old enough to do the puzzles on her own, but we use the game to practice identifying shapes and colors. We work on big, bigger, and biggest, and we get to create cool pictures with our daugther—even our one-year-old likes to play with the pieces and watch us put the puzzles together. This is the perfect family travel game.

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17. Best Kids’ Tablet

There are a bazillion tables on the market, so feel free to choose any of those. We love the Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids Edition. Our daughter can access her favorite pre-downloaded shoes, movies, and games. She has her own little headphones (gift idea # 19), and as long as she likes the movie, she can be a happy little camper for about an hour.

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18. Toilet Liners

I absolutely hate public toilets (Remember: I mentioned the whole OCD thing earlier… ) I never thought I’d hate public toilets more, but then I had potty trained kids (even the one year goes #2 on the potty…I’m proud). Why do kids hold on to toilets? It’s so gross. I really dislike it. So, when I found these toilet liners I think I said a little prayer of gratitude and did a happy dance. These liners cover the toilet and have a little over hang so that when your little one inevitably puts their hands on the toilet, they don’t touch the toilet. (Do you hear the angels or is it just me?)

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19. Headphones for Kids

I learned the hard way that little kids can’t use earbuds. Most probably know this intuitively. I didn’t. But after the 100th time, I was asked to fix the earbuds, I had learned this lesson. Kids need headphones. You know, the kind that fit over their little ears. We like these.

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20. Kid Travel Backpack

We like to make traveling fun for our kids. To be fun, they have to be involved. So, we let them pack cheap replaceable things in their little backpacks. They put coloring books, crayons, or markers in their backpacks. Sometimes we let them put their tablet in there if we’re about to board our flights. But they don’t carry anything heavy or irreplaceable.

Generally, their dad or I hold onto their lovey and other little important articles that would end the world, if lost.

Our kids like their little backpacks. Their backpacks are about this size and have about the same amount of space.

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If you’re a frequent traveling family, a friend or relative of a highly mobile family, whether they’re in the military and move frequently; the family take frequent road trips, or travels internationally on vacation or with a parent’s work… these items are essentials in our travel arsenal. I hope they help you with your family travel.

If I missed a great product this year, leave a comment with a link and I’ll try it out to include next year.

The 42 Best Gifts For Mompreneurs

By Nomad Mom

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It’s safe to say now that it’s cool for moms to start businesses. There’s even a cool name for us, mompreneur. Get it? Mom plus entrepreneur! Genius.

So more and more moms are starting businesses. Blogs, Freelance Consulting, Multi-Level Marketing, Crafting, Etsy, Coaching, Traditional Brick & Mortar shops, Catering, Cake Decorating, YouTube vblogging.

You name it. I know moms doing it. And they’re still homeschooling, watching kids, keeping house, cooking meals, grocery shopping, changing diapers, and keeping their family on a budget, one cup of coffee at a time.

Can I just say… Moms kick serious ass. Sorry for the profanity, and I know I’m biased (mom speaking), but the level and mix of pure talent, drive, love, and crazy that it takes to be a mompreneur is epic.

Mompreneurs are epic. We rock.

So while most mompreneurs would love a BOSS MOM coffee mug or a call BOSS MOM t-shirt.…

When it comes to gift giving, why not give the mompreneur in your life something she can use??Here is the ultimate gift guide for the mompreneur in your life. 42 of the best mompreneur gifts.

Me Time

So, the number one most desired gift on this mompreneur’s list is ME TIME! And no, I don’t want to just stay in bed, read romance novels, sip hot cocoa, and watch HGTV movies (although that sounds FABULOUS!). I and most mompreneurs have a list of to-dos that need a nice chunk of uninterrupted time to complete. And with some consistent or at least planned chunk of ME TIME, most mompreneurs I know could cross some long-standing to-dos off their lists.

These are budget-friendly mompreneur-approved gifts that spouses, partners, friends, and even older kids can offer the mompreneur they love.

These gifts work best as gift cards. You can use the Nomad Mom Life Gift Certificate templates for your gifts. They’re the perfect gift for a mompreneur and they’re called “nomad mom” gift certificates because you can be in one state (or country) and give this gift to someone else.

1. Uninterrupted Work Time.

Having a consistent—even a one-time—opportunity to work without interruption is a mompreneur’s dream. Create a gift certificate and gift your mompreneur an opportunity to have at least 2-hours of uninterrupted work time. You can gift uninterrupted work time by taking care of her responsibilities for a finite number of hours. The great thing is, you can do this yourself or pay to have this done. Your choice.

2. Weekend Away.

This is a BIG gift, and you can give your mompreneur the house for a weekend OR splurge on a hotel stay for her. However you do it, the point is to give her a comfortable weekend of time alone to work on her business or take a long nap. You’re giving her time to herself. How she spends it is up to her.

3. House help.

These gifts get more and more extravagant. So, your mompreneur isn’t just called an entrepreneur because she’s doing all the work of an entrepreneur AND a mom. You can help for free though, and you have at least two options. You can either help with more housework OR you can hire someone to come help with the housework. It’s up to you.

4. Childcare.

Having consistent or even occasional childcare is a godsend to the mompreneur. We love our kids, and we want to spend time with our kids. Our challenge is that we can’t spend time with our kids AND run our businesses at the same time. So having a safe trustworthy person watch our kids so we can concentrate only on our business is a fantastic gift.

You can go the free route which is to watch the kids yourself or you could go the paid route, paid childcare. The paid route includes babysitters, daycare, and even in-home au pairs.

Childcare swapping is a great budget-friendly gift for fellow-mompreneurs. If you have a friend who is also running (or starting) a business, the two of you could gift each other childcare swapping. That way, you guys give each other consistent childcare AND uninterrupted work time to dedicate to achieving your business goals.

5. Virtual Assistant Support.

Your mompreneur literally has more things to do in her day than she has hours to do them. She’s constantly learning new things and stumbling along until she gets a handle on this business thing. If you’re looking to give you mompreneur the ultimate gift, giving her a couple of hours with a virtual assistant (VA) would be spectacular. Check out this VA Finder through Gina Horkey. Gina trains VAs. So she only recommends the absolute best. Before you bulk at the expense, you should know that most VAs charge anywhere from $15 to $45/hour. Their rates typically depend on the type of work they’re doing and some VAs will even create packages of hours, allowing you to get a discount on their hourly rate.

Time Management

I don’t know a mom who doesn’t have a schedule and no matter how organized she seems, she wishes she was MORE organized. As a mompreneur, this desire to organize, plan, and schedule can be intense. Sometimes bordering on OCD. Helping mompreneurs manage their time is an amazing gift. Here are few of my fav resources.

6. Paper Planners.

Everyone sells a planner and everyone thinks their planner is the ultimate. Please. Planners only work if they’re right for you. If your mompreneur has a planner she LOVES, please don’t waste your time or your money. Just buy the one she likes. If she’s not yet found HER planner, here are a few paper planners I like.

Online Planners

Free online planners have come a long way. If your mompreneur has a system that works for her and she’s not interested in changing it, then skip this section. Online planners are not the gift for your mompreneur. However, if your mompreneur is constantly seeking efficiencies and wanting to make things better. In other words, if she’s a bit OCD (but you should never call her that), then an online planner subscription may be her thing. Here are two planners she may like.

7. Home Routines.

Ok, so most moms do the SAME thing every day (more or less). The life of the mom is a life of love, hugs, cleaning, and routines. We do the same things every day. This app is great. You put your routines in the app and you can check them off as they’re accomplished. It has a built-in timer, and you get the satisfaction of checking things off as they’re completed. You can manage everything on your phone, but there’s also an online component that you can access from your laptop.

8. Cozi.

At this point, most people have heard of Cozi. It’s a FREE and online system that allows your family to create a family schedule. Cozi’s paid version has shared to-do lists capabilities and allows you to create multiple schedules. I tried this and I was able to create a work calendar, a personal calendar, track my husband’s work and travel schedule, and create separate schedules for both kids’ activities. I could also create a weekly grocery list that I shared with my husband so that we could both add things as we thought about them. It’s a pretty great system.

Client Schedulers

Online scheduling software is a combination of an online planner AND an automated efficiency for service providing mompreneurs. So if your mompreneur is running a freelance, coaching, or consulting business that requires her to work directly with her clients in-person, over the phone, or on video chat system, then she may benefit from an online scheduling software subscription.

These systems, all you to have one calendar that shows your WORK time and availability to clients as well as you unavailable time. They all three make your client-available time periods available for potential clients to book you. Each system allows you to upload client agreement templates and contracts to automate your new client intake. You can also take payment on these systems.

Here are three systems that I’ve tried. Personally, I think all three systems are similar. Which one you select is really based on the type of service your mompreneur offers and what just feels right for her. At this point, I’ve tested:

9. Calendly,

10. Satoriapp, and

11. Acuity Scheduling

Of the three systems listed, I’ve used Calendly and Satoriapp. I liked Satoriapp for scheduling my coaching clients. The interface and all of the features simplified my intake of new clients. It was simple to use and easy for my clients to understand. However, when I started doing more freelance writing, using Calendly was easier. It had fewer bells and whistles but it made scheduling a time to talk (when you’re a gazillion time zones apart) a breeze. I haven’t used Acuity Scheduling, yet, but I know several coaches AND freelancers who swear by it. I can’t wait to give it a shot. Talk to your mompreneur before you gift her a scheduling system.

Website Design & Support

This may be the unruly bane of entrepreneurial existence. Most mompreneurs work online. So we all need websites but when you’re first starting out, it’s expensive to outsource your web services. And while we can build a website on our own, the learning curve initially seems insurmountable. For some mompreneurs, the technology piece is a deal breaker. Unless your mompreneur is a web developer, the following resources will delight your mompreneur and allow her to sigh a bit in relief.

12. Maintenance/Support.

iMark Interactive is one of many fantastic and reliable website maintenance, support, and general life-saving tech-support companies for mompreneur website whoas. Grayson, the owner of iMark Interactive, provides regular back-ups; he updates plug-ins; completes website design overhauls; provides premium themes and he fixes irritating tech problem in minutes that would literally take you all day. Plus, he’s just a nice person. There are literally a TON of people who do this work but when you’re buying a gift for someone, it’s nice to have a solid recommendation for a reputable company. This is it.

13. Hosting Services.

For aspiring mompreneurs paying for hosting is a great gift. Starting out as a mompreneur (generally) requires at least website. Even if your mompreneur is launching the website on her own, she’s going to need hosting services and a domain. Those things cost money, and generally, you want to pay for the hosting and domain for at least a year. Again, there are ton of hosting companies. I recommend starting with HostGator. Once she has her domain and hosting package, she can learn how to install WordPress with HostGator and start her website.

14. Upgrade to Premium Plugins.

You may have no clue what a plug-in, let alone a premium plug-in, is, but your mompreneur is way too familiar with them. They make her website run. Get interested in her business and in her website or blog. Ask her which plug-ins, in an ideal world, she’d like to upgrade. She’ll know exactly what you’re talking about. Make sure you have a pen and paper. Then head to my gift certificate template resource page and download your gift cards.

15. Design Services.

If your mompreneur has a website design service crush, then this may be the gift for her. Website design (and redesign) services can cost anywhere from $1000 to $5000. You can definitely find cheaper options but if it’s not what she wants, don’t bother.

16. New Theme.

In lieu of a complete custom design overhaul, you could also gift a premium theme to your mompreneur for her website. A theme governs the design and layout of a website. It’s like a mini website makeover. It’s also exponentially less expensive. I love Restore 316 themes. They’re easy to use and very responsive.

17. SSL Certificate and configuration.

As of October 2017, any page that uses Google Search Console and doesn’t have an HTTPS or an SSL Certificate will show as NOT SECURE in the browser bar. The only way to fix it is with HTTPS and getting an SSL certificate. So, if your mompreneur hasn’t gotten her SSL certificate and set it up, that’s a worthwhile gift. You can simply log-in to your hosting company, like HostGator or BlueHost, purchase your SSL directly and then configure your site. I’m not a technical whiz and I’m not particularly patient. So, I got Grayson from iMark Interactive to set mine up. Throw that in as part of the gift.

18. New logo.

Having a unique logo that visually represents how you view and want others to view your brand is a huge milestone that many mompreneurs (secretly) never achieve. The price of a new logo is all about value. You can DIY a logo. Hire someone to create something “new to you” for as little as $5 or pay thousands of dollars for a logo designer to custom make a new logo. If you’re on a budget but want something nice, Fiverr has talented designers.

19. Subscription to a stock photo site.

Being a mompreneur is not only about having a profitable skill but also being able to create a visually appealing brand. The internet is no longer static. So having great stock photos to accompany every blog post and all of the social media is key. But good stock photos can get pricey. Giving a subscription to a stock photo site is worth investigating for your mompreneur. While there are a ton of free stock photo sites, having a subscription for a month or two to a paid stock photo site will give your mompreneur more options. For a paid site, try depositphotos.com and for free photos, try this: 35 Best Places for Free Feminine and Styled Stock Photos.

20. Professional photography session.

So, what woman do you know who would not shed a happy tear to get dolled up for a professional photo shoot for their website? Not one. Best gift ever. If you have the funds, a professional photo session for your mompreneur will make her feel beautiful, professional, and on top of the world. Plus, she’ll get some great looking pictures of herself for her blog and finally be able to feel confident about how she looks online. You’re welcome.

Training

OMG! The Training. Mompreneurs are up to their eyeballs in training courses, and there is always something new to learn. She could most easily rattle off a list of courses she wants to take, if you asked, that she thinks are either too expensive or are just not currently available for purchase. Here are a few she may covet.

21. Elite Blog Academy.

Elite Blog Academy (EBA) is an amazing course that helps bloggers learn how to monetize their blogs. The beauty of this program is that you don’t have to be blogger to benefit. You can be a coach, a freelancer, sell handcrafted products on Etsy, or even provide resell services. If you have an online presence, the more eyes your mompreneur has on her website, the more money she makes. And knowing how to blog helps her attract more targeted eyes to her website.

While EBA is a little pricey, the results your mompreneur can create with this knowledge is crazy. It’s probably the greatest single investment I’ve made in my business. In the first 3 months of the program, I made my first passive income and attracted over 800 subscribers. EBA is only available for 5 days a year. So hop on the waitlist so you can buy this course for your mompreneur the next time its offered. You can join the waitlist here.

22. Virtual Assistant (VA) Training.

Becoming a Virtual Assistant (VA) is a fantastic way to start a mompreneur business. General VAs can work from home whenever they have the time. VAs typically work for small business owners and solo-preneurs who don’t have time to get everything done in their business. The work can include but is not limited to administrative, writing services, graphic design, social media maintenance and updates, and website support. However, each VA can determine the specific work she wants to do. And for a mom wanting to create some extra income for her family, this is a great way to do it. The greatest issue with VA work is getting started and finding the first few clients, and Gina Horkey’s VA Training helps aspiring VAs solve these problems. So if your mompreneur (or would-be mompreneur) is interested in becoming a VA, this is the program for her.

23. Social Media Training.

No matter your mompreneur’s business, social media promotion is part of any business. Learning how to use the various social media platforms is key, and there are several amazing courses designed for mompreneurs (by mompreneurs) to learn the ins and outs of social media promotion. Several great social media training gifts are Pinning Perfect by Blog Clarity which is THE best course I’ve ever taken to learn how to use Pinterest. My blog traffic skyrocketed after I took this course. For Facebook courses, you can check out Udemy to find a course that matches your mompreneurs needs and budget.

24. Business Training.

Your mompreneur may have already found out that making money and running a business are two different things. And for me, making money is way more fun than running the business. So, I’ve found that the best course to learn how to automate your business so that your mompreneur can spend more time making money is Stress Less to Impress. Leah takes you through the tools and processes you need to look professional without sacrificing the time you spend making money.

25. Copywriting/Sales Training.

The way you describe what you’re selling will determine how much you sell. People like concise honest descriptions, but learning how to write that way can be a case of trial and error. Enter The Copy Cure. It’s a quick and painless course with video, transcripts, and worksheets to solve your biggest copy issues so you can help more people with your products and services.

26. Consulting/Coaching Services.

Getting someone to help you figure out the next best step forward in your business, strike a balance between your life and your business or, even just get unstuck in your business or life is worth every single penny.

27. Increase Blog Traffic Training.

For bloggers, this is the holy grail of their business, traffic. For new bloggers, getting that first 10,000 page views/month is a differentiator in the blogging world. So any course that can help a new blogger hit that milestone is golden. Elna Cain’s Ready Set Blog For Traffic Course is best entry-level course a mompreneur can take to start generating more eyes on her business.

28. Legal Services

Except for a few lawyers, I don’t know a single mompreneur who isn’t a little terrified that her business isn’t standing on solid legal footing. Now, she may have absolutely no specific reason to fear her legal situation but she just doesn’t know enough about small business law to be confident and she doesn’t have a lawyer in her corner. That’s enough to make any a smidge uncomfortable.

Businessese is a fantastic online legal resource for mompreneurs who want to have an extra layer of confidence that their business is safe. Businessese offers easy to download legal forms to support your mompreneur’s business. For instance, they offer website disclaimer templates, privacy policies, affiliate disclosures, and contract agreement templates. Plus, they’re constantly adding new products to their site. Gifting your mompreneur a little legal safety net may give her the confidence she needs to promote more and grow even bigger.

Equipment & Software

In addition to online resources, most businesses also need equipment and software to do the money-making work. Think about giving the following equipment or software for you mompreneur.

29. New camera.

If your mompreneur takes her own photos for her business as a photographer or a blogger, she may need (or want) a new camera.

30. Lighting Kit.

A lot of mompreneurs are shooting videos and vblogging on their websites and on video sites like YouTube. Having the perfect lighting can be difficult without a little help. Using a lighting kit like this is great for newbie and experienced vbloggers, and having the right lighting makes a huge difference on the quality of the final video.

31. Laptop.

Who doesn’t want a new laptop? Personally, I think Apple makes superior laptops. I love them. They last forever; they’re beautiful, easy to use, easy to transport, and powerful little machines for every situation. Love them. If you’re buying a gift, make it awesome. Buy her an apple product.

32. Photo Editing Software.

With the advent of social media, creating amazing visuals for the web is the new normal. While everyone can’t afford to hire a graphic designer, every mompreneur still needs to be creating visually stimulating pieces of content on their websites for social media promotion.

There are a TON of software programs with cloud-based systems and there are systems for direct download that even a novice can use.

33. Canva and PicMonkey

Canva and PicMonkey are online graphic design tools that are easy to use, and they have FREE versions. The upgraded versions require a monthly subscription but they’re not too expensive.

34. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

These three products are available through Adobe either through their cloud system with a monthly subscription or you can buy a license for the product and install it to your PC.

Administrative Software

35. E-signature software subscription.

Once you have your legal house in order, you’ll want to start sending out contracts to formalize for subcontractor work, new client work, and joint ventures. A program like Docu-sign simplifies the process of electronic signatures and will make your mompreneur look and feel like a pro.

36. Accounting Sofware. Generally, mompreneurs are also solo-prenerus; they’re a one-woman shop. If she’s just starting out and not making much money, she can probably manage her accounts payable and receivable on her own, but as she starts to grow and have more and more clients, an automated system for paying, invoicing, and receiving payments will free her up to focus on her business. A system like Freshbooks is super helpful for not only tracking time worked but also invoicing, receiving payments, and tracking expenses. If she’s working on multiple projects, Freshbooks also integrates with her project management software.

Let your mompreneur test out an accounting system for free. The FreshBooks Cloud Accounting – Free Trial is totally free but user beware, once you start using Freshbooks, you’re not leaving it. It’s just that amazing.

Conferences

One of the most fantastic things about being a mompreneur is meeting other mompreneurs. This is one gift I want and a lot of other moms in business will also dig. Here are few conferences you could give to your mompreneur. Remember, the gift has to include conference registration, flight, and accommodation.

37. Activate Conference

38. FinCon

39. She speaks Conference

40. Focused Blogging Conference

41. BlogHer Conference

If there’s a mompreneur in your life these are 42 gifts she may love! The trick to making sure you get her the perfect present is to ask her about her business and find out what she needs.

Now, if YOU’RE the mompreneur, make sure to share this post with your nearest and dearest. You deserve the best. After all, the best way to get what you want is to ask for it, and we both know a little HINT never hurt…

Did I miss a great gift? Leave a comment with the perfect gift for you and your mompreneur business.

One Solution Working Moms Need for More Flexibility + Income

By Nomad Mom

All moms have GAZILLION things to do each day. Working moms still have the gazillion things to do, and they also have a full-time job. The addition of that job, also adds the logistics of dropping kids at daycare, packing lunches, and figuring out how (and who) picks up the kids at the end of the day. Then factor in the general dinner, homework, bath, and the bedtime routine, and the working mom’s day is a stay-at-home mom’s day on steroids.

Don’t get mad. Stay-at-home moms are massively busy too. I’m a stay-at-home mom, but I also have a huge respect for working moms. I work from home and even that can get hectic. I have massive respect and sympathy for working moms because they do a lot.

Now, working moms, I can’t make the gazillion things on your plate disappear, but I can suggest one solution for more flexibility and income is to launch and run a business from home.

Whether you start the business slowly in your (non-existing) free time while you continue your full-time job, or you stash money like you’re preparing for the apocalypse and then quit your job to focus on your business full-time, it doesn’t matter. How you do it doesn’t matter. You just need to start a business, mama.

Working Moms Need Online Businesses

So hear me out. You may not think you’re the “business type” or you may have a laundry list of reservations about why you can’t start a business right now (or ever, as the case may be).

Here’s the deal though. The way our world works, it doesn’t support motherhood, childhood, or anyone’s quality of life (for that matter). Society’s solution to childhood is that it’s merely an inconvenient time of life that requires someone (not necessarily the parent) to keep the kid from injuring him/herself.

I’m not against jobs, and I’m definitely not against parents working. After all, we all need money to afford the lifestyles that everyone tells us we need. And there are some families for whom a job is the only thing that stands between keeping a roof over the family and homelessness. Work is important, but it’s also important to live fully.

Work is important, but we also need to live fully. The quality of our lives matters.

And whether you’re working 60+ hour weeks to afford your Benz or you’re working 3 jobs to keep the lights on, that’s not quality living.

Making parents choose between income—generally, a necessity—and spending the first two years (or more) at home with their young children is not a choice; it’s a socioeconomic inequality.

To create more choice, flexibility, and potential income, mothers (specifically) and fathers need to consider that the one solution to end (or at least slow) their rat race is self-employment

The Self-Employment Mom Solution

So here’s the deal. You could stay at a job that requires you to leave your kids with relative strangers, wade through an unnecessarily complicated commute, and accept a salary that doesn’t necessarily reflect the amount of work you’re actually doing to keep the hamster wheel moving. OR, you could start a business and become a self-employed mama.

The best long-term solution for greater flexibility and income is to start a business. Again, whether you start your business as a side-hustle and continue working full-time until either your business is in the black OR you’ve saved enough to have a soft nest egg, it doesn’t matter. You just need to get started.

You can worry about how you transition from employee status to boss on a later date. Self-employment only works if you’ve figured out how to make an income from home (and preferably online).

For the working mom, the self-employment solution needs to allow you to work from home; work on projects you enjoy; control your hours; and set your own rates.

Please don’t build a business that stresses you out. It would ruin your “solution” and leave you no better off than you were with a full-time job.

How to start your self-employment journey

When the only way you’ve known to make money is to have a good job, the idea of starting a business and being self-employed may seem extraordinarily daunting, but it doesn’t have to be.

First, sign up for my 5-Day Dream Biz Challenge, mama. It’s free, and I walk you through 1 step a day for 5 days to setup the foundation of your dream business.

Once you know what kind of business you want to start and what kind of clients you want to have, the second step is to start a blog. With a blog, you can start producing great free content for your ideal customer AND learn what your prospective clients/customers like, want, and need.

Finally, you’re going to create a product or a service that responds directly to the likes, wants, and needs of this customer, and hopefully, you’ll start seeing prospective clients/customers become paying customers.

Look, mama, this is not a race. It’s definitely not a sprint. It may take you a while to figure all of this business stuff out, and that’s ok. Just make sure you enjoy your business: not love, not passion, just enjoy it.

You may not start making money immediately. In fact, it may take you months (maybe years) to really start making enough money to even consider leaving your job. And you’ve got to be ok with that.

Now get started

Whether you’re a working mom who wants more flexibility or a stay-at-home mom who wants to work, if you don’t start you’ll never know if you could achieve the flexibility and income you secretly (or not so secretly) want.

So mama, will the self-employment solution solve the problems you face? When will you get started?

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3 No Nonsense Reasons Moms Need The 12 Week Year

By Nomad Mom

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At Not for Sissies, we believe being a mom doesn’t mean you have to give up your life. Instead, motherhood can be a time to reinvent and creatively transform your life into more fun and flexibility without losing your income. But there’s no plan and no one to show you how. That’s why all moms need to The 12 Week Year.

As a mom, it’s incredibly difficult to prioritize ourselves (including our careers) when everything (and everyone) seems more important.

Reading The 12 Week Year changes everything.

Why Moms Need The 12 Week Year

Don’t let the book overwhelm you. I’m sure you probably don’t have time to lounge and read a book. But it’s on Audible. You can listen to it throughout the day or during a commute.

Now you have absolutely no reason not to read (or listen) to this book. And don’t let the cover fool you, it may seem like a business book but it’s actually a life planning book and all moms need The 12 Week Year.

This is a book about getting more stuff done; feeling like you’re accomplishing something important, and having the confidence and the tools to commit to your goals no matter what happens.

All moms need The 12 Week Year. While being a mom isn’t a business, we work like we’re in business. Having the tools to set goals, create our own plans, and build in time for our personal projects is absolutely liberating.

Who doesn’t want less stress and more time for your own projects? Here are 3 no nonsense reasons you need to read (or listen to) The 12 Week Year.

1. Get More Stuff Done!

This book is amazing because it helps you stop juggling and start feeling like you have control over your day and your life.

The most unusual thing about The 12 Week Year is the switch from 12-month planning to 12-week planning. You create a BIG dream for yourself and then you attack that vision in 12-week intervals by focusing on a few tactical aspects of that BIG dream vision.

This is so awesome because you can create new tactics and change your priorities every 12 weeks to align with your big goals.

For instance, perhaps you’re a mom who’d like to live a healthier lifestyle. As a part of this healthier lifestyle, you want to:

Earn a sustainable income from home to reduce your stress and anxiety and spend more time with your family.
Cook more meals with whole foods and vegetables
Exercising regularly.

Most moms out there know that you’d probably have to sacrifice sleep to accomplish this big dream. But with The 12 Week Year, moms can use the vision and time blocking strategies to plan out their week on paper to make time for these activities without undermining or neglecting existing responsibilities (or priorities like sleep).

2. Feel good about what you do!

So many moms never feel a sense of accomplishment about what they’ve done because everything seems to be one random task after the next.

The book emphasizes the importance of consistency. The authors would rather have you working toward your goal for 30-60 minutes every single day than working on it for 5 hours once a week.

So if your goal is weight loss, that’s a 30-minute walk. If you’re a writer, that’s 30 minutes of solid writing time.

And it’s amazing and absolutely liberating not to feel like you need to have three to five hours free each day to work on a single priority to be successful.

And with every task you accomplish, whether it takes 30 minutes or two hours, you can feel good not only because you’ve completed it but because you’re building your “consistency muscles,” and you can see how it relates to your BIG dream/vision.

3. Removing the guilt from Saying NO!

When you’re working to accomplish anything, breaking it into manageable chunks and being consistent allows you to see if you’re making progress.

Once you start seeing how good it feels to start making progress, it’s a whole lot easier to say NO to interruptions. If that means, finding an activity for your kids for one hour or waiting until they go to bed, saying NO to interruptions becomes a necessity to maintain your commitment to accomplish your vision.

In The 12 Week Year, Brian Moran calls this accountability. He says,

Accountability is not consequences, but ownership. It is a character trait, a life stance, a willingness to own your actions and results regardless of the circumstances. “

When you have a written plan of what you need to do, saying NO to interruptions or committing to make-up any interruption before you fall asleep that day is the process of being accountable to yourself and your BIG goal/vision.

Being able to remember the BIG BIG goal and to understand how your 12-week year plan will help you achieve everything you set your mind to accomplish.

For me, this helps me make peace with my mommy guilt because I know two hours away from my kids each day will ultimately benefit those munchkins.

Final thoughts

I love this book. For moms, The 12 Week Year is an amazing tool to help create personal and family goals without feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. Every mama needs to read and execute this tool in her personal and professional life. You will not regret it.

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5 Unusual Tips To Help Mompreneurs Manage Mommy Guilt

By Nomad Mom

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One of the biggest sources of angst for mommy entrepreneurs (mompreneurs), is the guilt we face when we choose to pursue our businesses instead of spending time with our kids. You know that feeling; it’s called mommy guilt. As a mompreneur, myself, I’m well aware of the mommy guilt that comes from having to consistently choose work over the kiddos. So, today, I’m sharing 5 unusual tips to help mompreneurs manage mommy guilt.

1. Create the Vision.

There’s a lot of noise around the concept of creating a vision, and there’s a good reason for it. A vision is the literally the first creation of the thing you hope to create with your business.

In the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People , Steven Covey wrote,

All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.”

Whether you’re pursuing this business because you want to give your family a financial leg up or you want to ensure your kids have a safety net and an option to pursue a higher education, your vision gives your daily actions meaning. And that meaning gives you a bit of perspective.

Leaving the kids for a few hours a day is a necessary sacrifice in the short-run to physically create the vision you have for your family.

From that perspective, the guilt subsides a bit and you begin to realize that NOT working is more detrimental than leaving for a few consistent hours daily.

2. Time Block

Some concepts are simple to understand and simple to implement. This is not one of those concepts. Time blocking, in theory, extraordinarily simple but as a mom, it’s almost impossible to have total agency over your day. But that’s what time blocking requires.

Time blocking is when you take your day and you break it up into lots of little blocks of purposeful tasks. Those tasks can include everything from making time to shower, getting the kids dressed and fed, running errands, spending fun time with the kiddos, and squeezing in time throughout the day to be intentional about various aspects of your business.

It’s not easy to do, but it’s a daily habit that pays handsomely in productivity.

One of the tools I first used to block my time was a day planner, but it was expensive and didn’t work for me as a mom. While my day typically starts around 5 and ends sometimes around midnight, most planners tend to start a 6 am and end around 8pm or 9pm (at the latest). So, I created my own planner, 24-hour mommy business planning sheets.

The beauty of time blocking is it encourages consistency over quantity of work. If you’re a stay-at-home mom, you may only be able to squeeze your business work in during naps. And working moms, may only be able to work in the evening for an hour after the kiddos go to bed. The point is that if you plan to work, you’re more likely to accomplish something.

Even if you only complete small tasks, when done consistently lots of small things become big accomplishments.

3. Create Kid-Only Time Daily

As parents, we tend to be with our kids all the time but we only really spend a small percentage of time 100% focused on them. This was definitely true in my case before I started time blocking.

The beauty of time blocking is that you become the mistress of your time instead of being so reactive to it, and you get to say what YOU think is important. Consequently, to help heal the mommy guilt, you can schedule 30 minutes to an hour where your only focus is your kids. Plan to take them to the park, play a favorite game or just play make believe with them.

My point here is that you can choose to become more intentional with your time planning your day. That intentionality all but eliminates the mommy guilt because you can—in some cases— be more present with your kids when you have a better handle on your schedule.

4. Put blinders/silencers on for dissenters

Not everyone is going to agree with how you spend your time. Being intentional with your time is not something a lot of people appreciate. You may hear that your time is too regimented and that you no longer have time for the things you used to do or the people you used to visit.

That’s OK. Remember that vision you have (No, scroll up at #1)? Only you can create that vision for you and your family. And if you don’t create it, no one is going to help you get back on track, pay for your kids to go to college, pay off your debt, or help you buy that dream house you’ve always wanted. No one but you.

So, if people are negative and they don’t understand what you’re doing, it’s fine. Put your blinders on and put some earbuds in your ears to silence their negativity.

This isn’t about anyone but you and your family. Don’t let anyone make you feel guilty about pursuing our goals. If you’re starting a business and you’re sacrificing time with your kids to be successful, you’re building something… for them.

In your free time, you’re spending time with them. You may not have time for a lot of other people right now. Be kind but be honest, and help them limit their expectations. You have work to do.

5. Be patient with yourself

Just because you aren’t making a ton of money (or any money) right now doesn’t mean anything. Right now only last for a moment. Believe that the sacrifices in time you’re making now will one day be the building blocks of the physical creation of your vision.

So be patient, and keep working. In the 12-Week Year, to paraphrase Brian Morgan and Michael Lennington, they say that one of the biggest mistakes people make is that they stop working consistently and then blame their lack of progress on a flaw in their plan. When actually, the flaw is not in the plan but in the lack of consistent execution.

Don’t stop working because you’re not seeing the progress you want soon enough. Keep working. Be consistent.

According to the 12-Week Year, once you’ve been consistently working toward your business goals for at least 12 weeks, only then can you take a look at your result and evaluate whether or not your plan needs— tweaking.

Just be consistent. Don’t let anything allow you to waver in your execution and your resolve to see your vision become a reality.

Final Thoughts

Mommy guilt is not going away, but you don’t have to push your goals and dreams down to avoid it. Mommies need to have goals. We need projects. Having a life outside of our families is sometimes what keeps us sane and allows us to stay well-rounded.

While you can’t avoid mommy guilt, you can plan for it and be intentional about how you schedule your hours and make time for your kiddos. Using the tips above can take the sting away from mommy guilt and help you not only make time for yourself but work toward creating a new vision for your whole family.