How to Balance Work and Life in a Home Based Business
My thoughts went back to last year's cross-country when Ashton was in prep school. Back then, it was really just a quick 100 metre dash and he hardly noticed we were there. I asked him if he would mind me missing it this year, and not surprisingly he answered no, without any hesitation, which is just the kind of easy-going undemanding kind of kid that he is. But my heart was pulling at me to get myself to the school, and my head was screaming at me to stay home and get prepared for the call. In the end, as it usually always does, the quiet yet insistent stirrings of my heart won. I remembered that this is why I have my home-based business, so that I can be there for my children. And I went. And boy am I glad I did! This year the event was very different, it was much, much longer, and maybe just a tad longer than I expected a 6yr old to run, but it was so exciting!! He ran his little heart out! And I felt like I was right there with him. It was exhilarating! His dad was there too. He also runs his own business, and how wonderful that we both can choose to attend these events, and oh my god, the rewards!! They might not be financial, but something much, much more fulfilling. My heart, my mind, my body and my soul are singing to the tune of complete and utter happiness. My being is totally expansive and all I want to do now is express that. Hence, my creativity is pouring out these words as I write. In my line of work this state that I find myself in is called congruency. Every part of me is singing a happy song because I am fully aligned with my number one value as a mother who acted in accordance with that value and put her family first. As a life coach this is THE reason I do what I do, to assist my clients to BE more of who they really are. My clients come to me because an area or areas of their lives are not working for them. If they are spending much of their time doing things that don't bring them joy and feeling limited and small as a result then it's more than likely there is a values conflict at play, because after all values determine where and how we spend our time. Imagine, for a moment, what the scenario might have been if I didn't go to my son's cross country event. This is how it would have played out... I would have been on my computer listening to the call, but not really present. I would have been fretting about what I was missing and worse, I would have been fully conscious of the fact that even though consciously my son said he didn't mind me not being there, his unconscious mind would have noticed and stored that information in the "mother wasn't there file". So then I would have felt guilty and more than likely I would be very critical of myself. It would have been a very different outcome.Jacleen Allen is the founder of The Success Zone, a training and mentoring company helping those building their own home-based business in the Personal Development industry. Jacleen is a Master NLP Practitioner and Accredited Life Coach. As part of her work she facilitates donation only 'Think and Grow Rich' Mastermind Groups based on Napoleon Hill's book of that name. http://www.successzoneunlimited.net Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?How-to-Balance-Work-and-Life-in-a-Home-Based-Busine...] How to Balance Work and Life in a Home Based BusinessComments [0]
