{"id":92,"date":"2010-10-20T10:23:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momsnetwork.com\/workathomeblog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2010-10-20T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T15:23:38","slug":"design-your-business-to-fit-your-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/momsnetwork.com\/workathomeblog\/2010\/10\/20\/design-your-business-to-fit-your-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Your Business to Fit Your Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:4.5pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black;\">Four and a half years ago I became a mother to a beautiful and sweet girl named Bella. I knew I wanted to be a &#8220;mom&#8221; but also continue to expand my business. I committed to a three day a week work schedule so I could be mom on Mondays and Fridays and be Lisa Cherney, CEO of Conscious<br \/>\nMarketing on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\">I took many steps to<strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"> expand my business<\/span><\/strong> in 2009 and ultimately <strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">triple my income<\/span><\/strong>, and one of these steps was affirming this three days a week work lifestyle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\">Think about your life and your business. Affirm and explore and <strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">decide on what lifestyle you want<\/span><\/strong> to have <strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">while balancing everything<\/span><\/strong> there is to balance. I work with a lot of entrepreneurs who were like me many years ago, working six days a week, up late at night, not taking vacations. A lot of us are in business for ourselves because we didn&#8217;t want a boss. But we find thatwe&#8217;ve traded one boss for a worse boss &#8211; ourselves! <\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"252\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;\"> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3923845094689161\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"250x250_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"000880\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"000880\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\">One of the things I really needed to do was to affirm what kind of lifestyle I wanted to have. So I did some soul searching and asked,<strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"> is this three days a week work schedule for me<\/span><\/strong>? Maybe I should be working more &#8211; maybe that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going to help me increase my income.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\">I realized that <strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">working more was not the answer.<\/span><\/strong> The answer was that I needed to be smarter. This included questioning the way I was doing things and running my business. It led me to get some needed help for those tasks all businesses must deal with. It led me to think smarter about my approach and how I was selling (and charging for) it and completely overhaul many aspects of what I was doing. Because I need &#8211; and want &#8211; to stick with my three days a week schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\">So <strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">affirm the kind of lifestyle you want to have and take the steps to make sure you can have it<\/span><\/strong> by designing your business to fit your lifestyle. For me it wasn&#8217;t trading hours for dollars anymore.<br \/>\n <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">This may require steps that can feel like taking big risks, including:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\" type=\"1\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: black; margin-bottom: 12.0pt\"> <strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Saying &#8220;no&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> to low-end, smaller clients or projects that take a lot of time with little financial reward.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: black; margin-bottom: 12.0pt\"> <strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Hiring help<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"> (virtual assistant, bookkeeper, cleaning service, etc.) even if it appears you can&#8217;t afford it right now.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: black; margin-bottom: 12.0pt\"> <strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Raising your prices<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"> and\/or creating a leveraged group program (or a high-end exclusive program). HINT: This is only limited by your ability to own and communicate the value of your expertise.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: black; margin-bottom: 12.0pt\"> <strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Hiring a mentor<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"> that has achieved the goal you have (even it appears you can&#8217;t afford it right now.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: black\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Slowing down<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"> and\/or taking a break from the day-to-day of your business in order to steer the ship in a new direction<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">For most of us out there, we didn&#8217;t go into business for ourselves so we could work 100 weeks and never take a day off. We&#8217;re doing it to have a certain kind of lifestyle. Are you living the lifestyle <strong><em><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">you<\/span><\/em><\/strong> want?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><br \/>\n # # # <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><br \/>\n Lisa Cherney is a Marketing Intuitive and President &amp; Founder of Conscious Marketing\u00e2\u201e\u00a2.\u00c2\u00a0 Lisa has helped thousands of business owners tap into their intuition and market their businesses from the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcInside Out\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n For <\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">15 years she worked at Fortune 500 companies and top advertising agencies.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"> Lisa tells her story in her co-authored book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Inspiration to Realization,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d available at <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ConsciousMarketing.com\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">www.ConsciousMarketing.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">. Conscious Marketing also offers workshops and coaching. 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