Before You Quit Your Day Job and Start a Business

Jumping from employee to entrepreneur is a big, big move. You will lose the security of a steady paycheck and you will now be responsible for all the decisions needed to steer the business to success. Watch the video for more tips on how to ease your transition and prepare yourself for your new life as an entrepreneur.

Work-Life Balance: Tips From Successful Small Business Entrepreneurs

When you start a business, the pressure of making the business work may compel you to work 24/7. You are hungry for new business and you feel the strong urge to prove that your business idea works. More importantly, you need to get the business start earning some money – and fast.
As a result, may [...]

Entrepreneurship and Work-Life Balance

I’ve been reading the book “How We Lead Matters: Reflection on a Life of Leadership” by Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Chairman and former CEO of Carlson. Carlson is one of the largest family owned businesses today and includes a wide variety of travel and entertainment businesses such as Radisson, Country Inns & Suites, Regent, Carlson Wagonlit [...]

5 Steps to Creating a Great Life with Your Small Business

I came across the book by Louis Barajas entitled “Small Business Big Life,” which takes a more philosophical and psychological approach to teaching how to start a business that I find interesting.
The book doesn’t discuss how to select the right business, or how to patent an idea or how to write a business plan. Rather, [...]

Balancing Home Business and Family

I previously wrote about the how to survive life as a work at home mom , which got a great comment from a reader.

An article at Lousiana’s ShreveportTimes.com focused on the same topic as well, with some additional tips on how to balance home business and family:

Prepare a realistic schedule — and stick to it.
Write [...]

Can an Entrepreneur Succeed When Focusing on Various Ventures at the Same Time?

Is it wise for an entrepreneur to start several new businesses at the same time?
Someone asked if it is possible to start several ventures simultaneously — in this person’s case, two consulting businesses, an Internet project, and a construction company — at the same time.
I do run several businesses, but never started them at the [...]

How to Survive Life as a Work at Home Mom

Having a home-based business is a great way for moms to earn money while staying at home. However, the reality is easier said than done. A home-based working mom must be adept in the tricky balancing act of caring for the kids, ensuring the house is in order, and running the business.
I have 3 kids, [...]

Challenges of Working from Home

“I now believe you!,” a friend exclaimed to me the other day. “Working from home is HARD!”

My friend’s husband just quit his top-level job to be a full-time consultant working from home. At the top of his list as the most difficult aspect of starting a home business is the part of working from home. [...]