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  • No Such Thing As a Small Decision

    No Such Thing As a Small Decision

    “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle You’re standing in the check-out line and see the headline of a magazine. It’s a favorite actor of yours and he’s broken up with yet another girlfriend. You pick it up, eager to know the details of his life. Read more

  • How My Work-from-Home Journey Began

    How My Work-from-Home Journey Began

    My work-from-home journey actually began in India. I moved there at the age of 16, along with a group of young people who wanted to make a positive difference in the lives of others. We spent the summer involved in a variety of social projects — workshops for prison inmates, ministries to support mentally-challenged individuals, Read more

  • Seven Reasons to Advertise Your Work-from-Home Business

    Seven Reasons to Advertise Your Work-from-Home Business

    When you’re working from home, advertising can be as simple as letting someone know who you are and what you do. When you let a neighbor or friend know that you are working from home and doing thus-and-so, you are, in effect, advertising. But while word of mouth is powerful, it can only go so Read more

  • Is There a Perfect Time to Start Working from Home?

    There will never be a “perfect” time to start working from home. I considered waiting on working from home until I earned a graduate degree. When I started working from home in 2010, the only degree I held was a high school diploma. I also thought that perhaps I could better focus on it once Read more

  • NaNoWriMo: Are You Crazy Enough to Write 50K in 30 Days?

    NaNoWriMo: Are You Crazy Enough to Write 50K in 30 Days?

    It’s the first day of NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. It’s also my husband’s birthday. This happens every year on November first, an extreme conflict of interests in my own life — my desire to do nothing but write, and the fact that life just gets in the way. Participating in NaNoWriMo means taking on Read more

  • Working from Home — Is It for You?

    Working from Home — Is It for You?

    Do you have a difficult time making decisions? I know I do. I’m somewhat of a perfectionist, so I like to know for sure something is the right path before I take it. The problem is, there’s often no way to know for sure. I read somewhere that you’ll never be more than 80% sure of any Read more