MANAGE A BUSINESS AND HOMESCHOOLING IN CRISIS
by LM
Preston
Business owners have a survivor nature. They are adventurous,
take risk and think outside the box more so than most anyone. An entrepreneur knows
about risk. However, knowing how to plan for challenges and crisis isn’t always
a priority until it is too late.
PUT PRIDE ASIDE
The main issue most run into that have the ability to work
at doing something they love, is to start to do something they don’t like – in order
to make enough money to survive. This means, possibly doing things you
originally considered out of scope of not a focus for your household or
business.
There was a time when we were launching our real estate
business that we needed to find money to advertise, my husband took a paper
route delivering newspapers and started delivering pizzas on the slow days to
put that money aside for our advertising. He fell back on those jobs throughout
our marriage when we needed money fast and wanted the flexibility to make it. I
also, took on babysitting other people’s kids overnight that worked night jobs
to supplement. We did what we needed to do – not what we liked to do – to reach
our goals.
ALL HANDS-ON DECK
If you live with others or others are invested with your
business, everyone should do their part. Setting expectations for sharing the
financial load of maintaining a home, a business is important. There will
always -always, be a weak link. That is the case even among stars. However,
identify the person, resource, or issue and mold it into the best representation
of itself.
INCOME AND JUGGLING BUDGET OBLIGATIONS
Any household, business, or person, should strive to have
multiple streams of income. Even if one parent decides to stay home, finding
another source of income for the family that takes little effort to cultivate
is important in relieving stress.
For a business owner, they need to have methods their
business can create and funnel in income without it being as time or energy dependent.
Some quick tips on how to do this:
-Compress resources: for example, instead of
purchasing or doing a long term lease for an office space, do a Day-Office
instead where you rent an office for the day or times you need it. This works
well for micro-businesses.
-Don’t be the only source of income for your business:
For micro-businesses it’s great that you can run everything yourself to make money,
but what if you get sick? Fine other sources of income besides your time/body.
For instance, I am a career re-imagination coach, education coach and writing
coach – but there isn’t enough hours in the day for me to service everyone. I
created online courses to support my readers, clients and students.
-Barter and Trades: If your business doesn’t have the
funds or your household doesn’t, fine ways to trade your skills, time, efforts
with others that will be able to do the same for you.
HOMESCHOOL DOWN TO BASICS
Now with many being forced to homeschool their kids, try to
work from home, and deal with the stress of crisis, taking things bare bones
can relieve stress. When homeschooling and working, own your flexibility. Have
a schedule of work your kids can do independently based on their learning
styles, attention span, educational gaps. Then assess how much one-on-one time
you can spend with them each day. Only focus one on one time on Reading,
Reading Comprehension, Writing and Building Math Skills. Make all other subjects
secondary. Homeschooling is MUCH easier when you do it without state oversight
by withdrawing your child from school and stating that you are officially a
homeschooler. Doing so, reduces the amount of work required for your child to
do and allows you to customize their education. Please see the HSLDA
(Homeschool Defense) for the laws in your state: https://hslda.org/content/laws/
By LM Preston, Author of Building Your Empowered
Steps and Homeschooling and WorkingWhile Raising Amazing Learners. Purchase her
books Amazon and Barnes and Noble
