Advice that could apply to more than just MLM and parenting.

Having not ventured down that road just yet ( but many of my team have)..my best piece of advice is to stay focussed on 1 or 2 things and for gods sake, shut all the other information that you are bombarded with, out of your mind, until you have mastered just a couple of strategies.

Luckily Mums can multitask…..:)

Dads on the other hand …..

I can’t say that i have any kids but I do have some younger brothers I live with. A challenge that I live with is being constantly distracted.

How I overcome being distracted is having a closed door policy when working on my business.

I hope you had a relaxing ten days…

It’s probably like culture shock coming back to the working world!

You know, it seems like the reason a lot of parents have for getting into our industry is their kids. It never really occurred to me how hard it would be to hold another type of job. But now I can definitely see the appeal.

Now I’m off to take a 5-minute retreat before I get back to writing.

I’m a single mom of 2 little girls, ages 2 and 5.

There’s definitely a balance involved in order to be productive and successful with a network marketing business and a family… but it’s TOTALLY doable, and well worth it. (I really got to experience the power of residual income a couple of years ago when I went through a divorce and literally took 4 months off COMPLETELY so that I could move, focus on my kids, etc and got paid a full-time income the entire time… I am so grateful for this opportunity and now am more passionate then ever about sharing it with parents).

My main recommendation would be to create solid boundaries around your time, business and family and don’t try to comingle the 2. I used to try to do 3-way calls, follow-ups, and conference calls while I was tending to my kids and I finally decided it just doesn’t do anybody justice (me. my kids, or the person/people on the other end of the phone).

Now I have designated business hours and when I’m with my kids I don’t take/make calls, etc. This allows me to be ultra present to my kids when I’m with them, and super focused on my business during my designated business hours.

And, although my kids are young, I’m always including them in my goals, etc. (ex: when I hit my next rank advancement we’re going to Disneyland, when I hit my last one I booked us a beach house for the summer, etc). This way, they’re super cooperative if/when I need to get them to bed on time to get on a call, etc.

I HIGHLY recommend this business for parents… it provides an enormous amount of time freedom so that we can spend time with our families (while getting paid due to the residual income), and it teaches our children that they don’t have to grow up and go to work for someone else (unless they want to).

I think your video will strike a chord with a lot of people. It seems like nobody is really talking about the trials of being a parent in MLM or any business for that matter. It’s like the “dirty little secret” almost nobody wants to talk about. Although it shouldn’t be.

This post inspired me to create a post & video about the working parent. I finally figured out the problem with my editing software and posted it last night. If you have a minute, stop by and check it out. And Make Some Noise While you are there.

Reporting Across the Street from the Intrepid,
Tommy D.
“The Prospecting Hero”