April 20, 2006
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articles for you today ranging from how to choose the best
home business opportunity to how to be a better dad.
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HOME BUSINESS
How Beets
Changed My Life
(c) 2004 Sharon Davis
If there was one thing I hated as a kid, it was beets.
I couldn't stand the look of them. Or the taste of them...
although, I'm not sure I remember ever actually eating
one. I just knew I would hate them.
And so, my whole life I've held to the belief that I hate
beets. Until recently. I was at one of those huge salad bar
restaurants and there they were. My husband loves beets, and
he was heaping them onto his plate.
"Come on, try one.
You've never even had one, have you?", he
cajoled.
So, I did the unthinkable. I ate one.
And it was good! To think I'd been missing out all this
time just because of a stubborn opinion I'd formed as a kid.
So what does this have to do with working at home? My
point here is that I once felt the same way about home
business opps.
When I first quit my job to stay at home with my kids, I
wanted only to find a telecommute job. No business opps. No
Network Marketing. No way. For reasons that escape me now, I
had no desire to start a business. In fact, I had a negative
impression of business opps in general. I thought most of
them were thinly veiled pyramid schemes (even though I'm not
sure I really knew then what constituted a pyramid scheme).
Eventually though, I succumbed to one of those "Mom's
Needed!" ads and I signed up with a --gasp-- Network
Marketing company. I liked their product, which had
educational value for kids and I actually made a little bit
of money. In fact, this is where I got the money to start my
current business, 2Work-At-Home.com.
In the beginning, my husband was beyond skeptical (yet
this was the very same person who convinced me to eat
beets....), but after a year of toiling my efforts were
really starting to pay off. I was able to pay bills. I was
even able to start getting some of those extras that we
wanted.
So, here I was a home business owner, even though I had
started out with the firm and non-negotiable goal of
securing a telecommute job. And you know what? I think I'm
much happier running my own business than I ever would have
been working for a company.
Who'd have thought that beets could change someone's
life?
--------------------------------
Sharon Davis, Work-At-Home expert, author and consultant,
helps people to achieve their goal of working at home,
telecommuting or starting a home business.
www.2Work-At-Home.Com
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JUST FOR DADS
Get Over
it, Kid!
“This
was the worst day of my life!” my son hissed.
“First
mom shrunk my favorite hat, then you guys lost my favorite
book, then I did my alphabet for you and you didn’t even
care!”
My
seven-year-old son wrapped his arms around his head and
tried his best to “shut out the world,” including me. My
first thought was to convince him things weren’t so bad, and
that tomorrow would be a better day. But by doing that, I’d
also convince him that I didn’t understand his feelings, and
what he was going through.
“Sounds
like a pretty rotten day,” I replied.
That was
all he needed.
For the
next fifteen minutes, he told me about all of the awful
things that he’d gone through, and who had committed the
“crimes.” We ended the night in laughter, talking about the
possibility of running naked through a winter storm to the
corner store and back. It was decided neither of us would
try, but we could do it, “if we really wanted to.”
Later
that night, I thought about my son’s anger and his rapid
recovery. I thought about how much more our kids share with
us these days, and how little I shared with my parents. And
I thought of what a blessing it is to have a son who’s able
to share his life with me.
Back in
the days of seeing and not hearing children, parents could
often skip the part of parenting that involved listening
closely and empathizing with their children. They could tell
their kids to “shape up” or “stop whining” when they were
struggling, and they could control them with fear. Children
would respond by stuffing feelings, and holding onto their
anger for long periods of time.
After my
son had shared his feelings with me, I shared with him how
glad I was that he could tell me what was bothering him. I
told him that “anger energy” needs to be released from your
body, or it starts to grow. And I shared that I was glad he
didn’t have to stay angry as long as I did when I was a
child, because I didn’t learn the “secret” of talking about
my problems with someone I loved.
If we are
to listen well, we must open ourselves to the good, the bad
and the ugly in our children. At times, it is excruciatingly
difficult to listen, when we want them to “get over it.” But
all they need is one comment to show them we understand, and
their mood shifts before us. All we need is to understand
that kids are not adults, and that they often feel their
emotions more strongly than we do.
And, they
will remember how you responded to their emotions for the
rest of their life.
So the
next time your child is struggling, remember the blessings
within the struggle. Remember the opportunity to join your
child with kindness and compassion.
And
remember that if you really want your child to “get over
it,” you’ll have to get over it first.
Mark Brandenburg
MA, CPCC, coaches parents by phone to balance their life and improve
their family relationships. He is an Instructor for the Academy for
Coaching Parents (www.acpi.biz),
and the author of the “Secrets of Emotionally Intelligent Fathers”
Ecourse. (http://www.markbrandenburg.com/father.htm)
Visit his
resources at
www.markbrandenburg.com.
HOME BUSINESS
How Beets Changed My Life
(c) 2004 Sharon Davis
If there was one thing I hated as a kid, it was beets. I
couldn't stand the look of them. Or the taste of them...
although, I'm not sure I remember ever actually eating one.
I just knew I would hate them.
And so, my whole life I've held to the belief that I hate
beets. Until recently. I was at one of those huge salad bar
restaurants and there they were. My husband loves beets, and
he was heaping them onto his plate.
"Come on, try one.
You've never even had one, have you?", he
cajoled.
So, I did the unthinkable. I ate one.
And it was good! To think I'd been missing out all this
time just because of a stubborn opinion I'd formed as a kid.
So what does this have to do with working at home? My
point here is that I once felt the same way about home
business opps.
When I first quit my job to stay at home with my kids, I
wanted only to find a telecommute job. No business opps. No
Network Marketing. No way. For reasons that escape me now, I
had no desire to start a business. In fact, I had a negative
impression of business opps in general. I thought most of
them were thinly veiled pyramid schemes (even though I'm not
sure I really knew then what constituted a pyramid scheme).
Eventually though, I succumbed to one of those "Mom's
Needed!" ads and I signed up with a --gasp-- Network
Marketing company. I liked their product, which had
educational value for kids and I actually made a little bit
of money. In fact, this is where I got the money to start my
current business, 2Work-At-Home.com.
In the beginning, my husband was beyond skeptical (yet
this was the very same person who convinced me to eat
beets....), but after a year of toiling my efforts were
really starting to pay off. I was able to pay bills. I was
even able to start getting some of those extras that we
wanted.
So, here I was a home business owner, even though I had
started out with the firm and non-negotiable goal of
securing a telecommute job. And you know what? I think I'm
much happier running my own business than I ever would have
been working for a company.
Who'd have thought that beets could change someone's
life?
--------------------------------
Sharon Davis, Work-At-Home expert, author and consultant,
helps people to achieve their goal of working at home,
telecommuting or starting a home business.
www.2Work-At-Home.Com
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INSPIRATIONAL
When my son was
in elementary school, he created some works of art that
had a striking resemblance to that of the world-renowned
artist Picasso. However, Picasso’s paintings are worth
millions of dollars and my son’s are only valuable to me.
What makes a work of art valuable? Its value is based on
the artist who created it. You, dear friend, are a piece
of art created by God Himself. King David described it
this way:
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