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Grow Your Business, Enjoy Life: How to stay on task with your clients, kids and community

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Learn how to balance the entrepreneur lifestyle with raising a family. Tips for productivity, goal planning, and family support. Erica Wiley is the founder of ProfitGeeks, a full service web and branding company. In addition to being an entrepreneur, she is also the mother of three.

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Grow Your Business, Enjoy Life:

How to stay on task with your clients, kids and community

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Mindset

Your Belief System Shapes Your Reality

OR

Stretch Yourself; You're about to be Uncomfortable

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Making Your New Filter

• Foundation– Business "Why" vs "Mission Statement"– Values – Dream Day Schedule

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Making Your New Filter (Cont.)

• Structure– Creating Your Business Vision That Supports

Your Lifestyle Vision • Shaping Life YOU want, Not Someone Else's

Picture of Success

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FAMILY

How to make working from home work for you and your family

OrWhy Separating Your Work From Home Life Doesn't Work and Why You MUST Integrate

them instead

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Spouse

• Communication– Communicate Your Vision and Your Goals

with Your Spouse Regularly– When Discussing Work, Describe In The

Context of How A Project or Task is Supporting That Goal/Vision

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Spouse

• Team Mechanics– Seek advice from spouse in an area they

have a strength in your weakness– Celebrate Victories Together– Know When To ReStructure If It Isn't Working

for One of You

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Kids

• Involving The Kids– With Work: Allow kids to help: creative, video,

just ask ideas, draw on white board Or give them "sample" work.

– Assign kids to own work during work blocks : schoolwork, chores or even personal interest

– With Housework; inspect what you expect

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Organization

Have A System that Conquers the "Discipline" Issue Once & For All

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Organization

• ABS Method– Making the Dream today (fitting dream

schedule into current reality)– Block Scheduling Your new Days

– Decide What Is Really Important to you– Recovering from Interruptions Big or Small

(Switch Days if necessary)

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Organization

• Organize Your Physical Space– Home

• Home Management Book: Focus Rooms & Focus Days

• Meal Plan (For 2 weeks at a time if possible) All dinners, min 3 breakfast, and 3 lunches p/week

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Organization

• Productivity Tips– Skip the coffee shop, Try the Library Meeting

Room– Tech Support Hacks (Know Thy Print Screen

and Video Screen Capture)– Outta Sight, Out of Mind. For Devoted Work

Time, Leave Your Phone as Humanly Far as Possible

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ericawileybiz• @egeekmom• 914-407-4335