Check Out My Interview With Jill Hart At Christian Work At Home Moms!!

Thank You Jill Hart From CWAHM For The Privilege Of The Interview! You Are An Encouragement To All Of Us Christian Work At Home Moms!

READ MY INTERVIEW FOR CWAHM BELOW!!!!

Kari Day of  Set Free To Succeed

I have the amazing privilege of helping women make their own businesses more successful. I love this because I get to do what I am passionate about. My passion is to help moms be successful in their own businesses and be Set Free to be home with their kids. That is my passion.

My Story

I have been a stay at home mom for the last eight years. For the first few years we made it without me going to work. But soon it was just too much for us to handle, so I decided to open a daycare in my home. When the recession hit and jobs were being lost, the daycares in my area suffered and I began to look for a better solution. Even if I had wanted to get a job outside the home I felt I was not marketable anymore. I had been out of the workforce for so long that I didn’t have any relevant experience. I was looking at having to go back to school to get some kind of job I wouldn’t really want anyway.

I had just started a personal blog about my relationship with Christ, when I began to wonder how people made money online. As I began searching I ran across an add on CWAHM for an online marketing and mentoring program that taught people how to market anything online. They also gave me the opportunity to use that knowledge to earn an income marketing their school. I researched it, talked to some people and fell in love with the whole idea of it. With the marketing and mentoring training school, I could learn a skill to use for any business I decided to do. I also could help other moms learn how to do the same thing and be successful in whatever business they did. Helping moms make their business more profitable fit perfectly into what my passion was.

My Business

There were three things that sold me on this program. The first thing was that the information was upfront. Nothing was hidden. They told me everything I wanted to know about the school and about how to earn an income marketing their program. The second thing that sold me was that I was going to be learning a real skill that I could take with me wherever I went and use in any business I wanted to start in the future. The third thing that really sold me on this business was that the CEO, and many other people in this business, are true believers in Christ. The CEO, Gerald Van Yerxa, is very forthcoming with his faith and even has a link on the site that presents the gospel and shows you how to be saved. He is the mentor and teacher and candidly teaches everyone to be servants of one another. And that is just what happens. With more than 500+ hours of on demand training and three additional live trainings a week, I am getting the right training to be successful online without ever having to leave my home.

My Balance

Being a work at home mom with three kids and a part-time daycare isn’t exactly easy. I have to schedule my time very wisely. During the day I have errands to run and kids who need me. I tend to keep a notepad close by so I can jot down any inspirations, or to-do items for my business that I think of while I go through my day. Then at night when the kids are asleep I go to work on my business writing articles, writing for my blog, making videos, keeping up with social media, or taking training. The purpose in being a work at home mom isn’t to steal all my family and kid time to put towards my business, but to make it possible to have both. So I choose not to have my work impede too much into my day, though we have to compromise on this at times. My husband is wonderful; he helps with the kids, dishes or laundry so I can have time to do my business. He is the most honorable man I know and none of this could be possible for me without him.

My Hope

My passion is to see stay at home moms succeed in being work at home moms. In my opinion moms who are serious about working from home should start out by doing three things. Pray for discernment and wisdom, actively search, and make a decision to succeed. With those three tools, coupled by ever growing opportunities on line, women should feel confident that they can do this. They can succeed, they can have the best of both worlds, and they can definitely be set free.

Getting Serious And Taking The Challenge

Yesterday I posted on my Facebook page the Ezine Articles “100 articles in 100 days” challenge. I have decided to do it. Since the actual Ezine challenge has been running for more than a month, and cutting my deadline by more than 30 days is not something I’m willing to do my first time trying this, I will enter the challenge, but extend my personal date by one month so I will still have a full 100 days to complete 100 articles. If I get really efficient at it, maybe I will make the Ezine cut off anyway? You never know what will happen when you put your mind to it.

Many of you know how hard it is to write with little kids running around, but I have decided to take the challenge anyway. My goal isn't to receive the mug or other prizes offered by Ezine, my goal is to hone my writing skills and become more efficient.

I suppose my story is similar to most Work At Home Moms out there. We balance caring for and nurturing the children, taking them to their events, giving time to our husbands, running the household (making dinner, lunch, doing laundry, cleaning bathrooms ect), and if that wasn't already a full time job, we add running a business from home. And in the end we hope we have found some personal time for ourselves too. Though if any of you moms are like me, you give that up first. Some days I feel happy to have made it through the day let alone be efficient with it. And yet being a work at home mom is still the best job in the world. To make all these things run smoothly we must be efficient. Scheduling our time, categorizing our spent time into "time priorities" (see Carving Out Time in My Day Week 2) and setting realistic and attainable goals all help me to be more efficient, and focused in my day.

Now I want to work on being more efficient in my writing. This will take practice for me. It has been a long time since I have written very much. Close to 14 years since I graduated college. So giving my self this challenge will be good for me, even if I don't make all 100 articles, I am still working toward a goal I have set and will be better for it in the end. If I can think of it in small bites it will help me not to get overwhelmed. Instead of thinking of the looming 100 articles in 100 days, I will think of the 7 articles I need to write in the next 7 days. If that overwhelms me I will think of the 1 article I have to write today. My hope is that this little trick will help me to stay laser focused without being overwhelmed.

Are you up for a challenge? Even if writing 100 articles isn’t the type of challenge you want to take on, think of one that will help you achieve one of your goals this month and set it. Don’t wimp out, lets take control of our circumstances and stop wishing we could achieve what we want. Lets just achieve it. Are you trying to exercise more, lose weight, or increase your business? What can you accomplish in 100 days? Post your own 100-day challenge and we will help keep you accountable.

The Ezine challenge ends April 10th, since I am starting late, my deadline for 100 articles will be May 10th. You will be able to see my progress (pass or fail) here in my blog and on Facebook (Kari Day). We can do this together. READY… SET… GO!

Carving Time In My Day...Part B

Ok, It has been a couple of weeks since I posted anything on my attempt to carve out time in my day. There is a very good reason for that. I didn't do very well with it the last couple of weeks! I was right on track keeping up with my scheduling and planning and then BAM! Something very unexpected happened that took my time and focus off of this goal and I left it behind me in a cloud of dust! Yep, I abandoned my perfect plan and went rogue! Guess how well I did with out scheduling? Bingo! I didn't do very well at all. So here I am again, on Monday February 1st attempting to do this again. Here is a recap of what I am attempting to do:

Task #1 Categorize My Spent Time Into My Three Time Priorities.

Task #2 Identify and Edit Wasted Time,

Task #3 Set Specific Goals

Task #4 Set Specific Time For Doing Each Of My Goals This Week

For more specifics please see my blog post titled Carving Out Time In My Day Week 2
My goal is to be able to spend time on my quickly growing business, without sacrificing time with my family, and ultimately be more productive with the time I spend doing work.

Our goals as work at home moms isn't to use up all our quality time with our kids working on our businesses. But instead, to be able to do both without sacrificing too much from either. I believe the more targeted I can become during my work time, the less time I will need to spend doing it. Hopefully I can keep focused this time long enough to have some of this become habit.

What about you? What tricks do you use to keep yourself on target? If you have any suggestions of what I can do different or what works for you I would love to hear them.