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Hey WAHMs, I know I have been a very, very bad blogger, not posting here for months. And MONTHS. The bigger Baby E gets (6 months now), the less time I have to work in the day. I cannot even imagine once she is mobile – eeek!  I have also been suffering from bad hiving, a symptom of my auto-immune issues, which I then have to take lots of meds which make me sleepy. And launching a new product Wigify, which is going really, really well.

I am on a new, stronger drug, and I can tell it is already starting to work, but it will be about 5-6 months until it hopefully controls my symptoms (which will rock my world!) and feeling better. But when I was feeling itchy (and bitchy as I call it, and I am sure my family agrees – LOL), taking care of my sweet baby girl was as much as I could handle some days. Other days I would work on Wigify for a few hours, but I did not have any energy to blog here.

You know what is the best thing about working for yourself? You get to decide what your priorities are. And if you are going through a rough patch, have a illness or just exhausted, my little hack for you today is to expect less of yourself. Just do what it takes to get the bare minimum done. The rest will be waiting for you when you feel better.

If you are neglecting a blog, it’s ok, it’s YOUR blog, you are allowed to neglect it If you are struggling, expect less from yourself, lose the guilt and know that you can pick up later. Focus on the things that matter to you, and the things which are bringing in the most money and worry about those other things, as Scarlett O’Hara would say “tomorrow, at Tara”.

I would love to here what you other mamas have done when the going gets tough. Please leave your tips in the comments.

P.S. If you are an affiliate or internet marketer, you may want to check out Wigify – it’s our new Affiliate Network. We have 11 different shops on there with some very interesting products, both physical and digital. It’s free to join.

Note from Christie: Crissy Heron of Indie Biz Chicks is having this amazing, free online conference in November, I have already registered and hope to see you there!

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For Immediate Release

Indie Biz Chicks Offers Free Online Conference For Women Entrepreneurs

October 21, 2009 – Flint, MI – IndieBizChicks.com, a website for “women who’d rather work for themselves, than work for the man,” is offering a free online business conference November 17th  and 18th, 2009.

The Indie Biz Chicks Conference, known as “The Biz Conference That Rocks,” will feature two days of seminars. The conference will feature information on how to use social media such as Twitter and Facebook, how to blog in a way that attracts and engages readers, how to set and attain goals, how to use technology to create more freedom in your business, how to balance work and personal life, and more.

“I’m very excited to be able to offer The Indie Biz Chicks Conference,” says Crissy Herron, the Indie Biz Chicks founder.  “We provide information that helps women run their businesses – and we do it for free! Since it’s held online, women do not have to worry about taking time away from their business to attend, travel expenses or arranging for child care. This is a conference that really helps women succeed.”

The seminars will be delivered via telephone conference line and web casts. It is possible to participate from any where in the world! People can register here, for free: http://indiebizchicksconference.com/registration/
The conference is free to participants, thanks to the generous donation of our sponsors. To learn more about becoming a sponsor, please visit: http://indiebizchicksconference.com/become-a-sponsor/

About The Indie Biz Chicks Conference:
The Indie Biz Chicks Conference is an off-shoot of www.IndieBizChicks.com, a website that provides business, marketing, and publicity info to “women who’d rather work for themselves, than work for the man.”

This conference will be focused on providing women  the education and tools they need to start and grow their own businesses. Why? Because when it comes to business, women ROCK! And they can totally make it happen!
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Contact: Crissy Herron
Email: info@indiebizchicks.coom
Website: http://www.indiebizchicksconference.com

• Ten Ways to Promote Facebook Business Pages – By Mari Smith

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– Fabulous tips for Facebook Fan Pages – get your page working for you!

• Ten Ways to Promote Facebook Business Pages – By Mari Smith

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– Fabulous tips for Facebook Fan Pages – get your page working for you!

• FAVICON- A short tutorial

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– Want your own falvicon? The icon icon that is at the top of the browser? Here is a great, simple tutorial.

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– Want your own falvicon? The icon icon that is at the top of the browser? Here is a great, simple tutorial.

Have you noticed a lot of “IM Gurus” are talking about productivity lately and giving tips to get more done in your IM biz? I have one HUGE problem with all of these”tips” … they do not address the fact that many of us work from home to be WITH our children.

If your children are not school aged, or are home-schooled, or they are on a school break, unfortunately, most of these tips are useless.  My baby is not going to really care that I set a timer for 60 minutes to focus on a project, she’s hungry now, dammit!

Closing myself off in another room to work, to “avoid distractions”, is not really an option unless she is napping. Also, I don’t really consider my child a distraction, she is the reason why I want to work from home!

A lot of these “tips” seem to be written for people who have someone else looking after the kids or the kids are in school.  In fact, a lot of these tips just talk about kids as a distraction you need to eliminate to get work done. Moms or Dads with kids around have to be MUCH more creative to achieve their daily goals, because they cannot “eliminate the distractions”, nor do they want to.

I soooo want a laptop, so I can be portable, be where the baby is instead of keeping the baby in my office, or trying to email from my iPhone. My goal is to get a MacBook Pro by the end of this year.

What are your productivity tips for running your business with kids around?

• Five Best Time-Tracking Applications [Hive Five]

September 20, 2009
– Want to track where you time goes? Here are Lifehackers fave time tracking apps. Me? I am too scared to see how much time I waste!

• Five Best Time-Tracking Applications [Hive Five]

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– Want to track where you time goes? Here are Lifehackers fave time tracking apps. Me? I am too scared to see how much time I waste!

• eBook Library Organizes and Indexes Your Books [Downloads]

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– I am in desperate need of some eBook organization, I am going to check this out!