From Teen Mom to Work At Home Mom (Video)

If you didn't already know, I am currently enrolled in college online through Full Sail University in an amazing Internet Marketing program. I never finished my degree (blame baby number 1) and one day on Problogger.net I saw an ad for this school, checked it out, and fell in love!

With one of my classes this week, Digital Storytelling, one of our assignments was to use iMovie to create a story. This story could be about anything and a lot of my classmates were making it about themselves. So here is my project, From Teen Mom to Work At Home Mom! Enjoy this 2 minute little video of silliness and enjoy my story!

Raising Children To Be Entrepreneurs #LemonadeDay

For today's blog post I am doing a vlog about an easy way to teach children how to be Entrepreneurs by starting a lemonade stand as part of Lemonade Day. Visit http://www.LemonadeDay.org to see if it's going on in your city!

Truly is super excited!

Business Owners Can't Own Homes

My husband and I are in a sticky situation when it comes to home ownership. Currently we are renting a house, but our lease it up in September, and from what we understand, the owners are wanting to move back in. So that leaves us, well out. In a couple of months.

How To Be A Write At Home Mom (Tip 1 of 10)

I love writing. Being a freelance writer not only allows me to stay at home with my children, but gives me a chance to get my voice out in the world, published, and seen by an endless amount of people. I've also been working on a novel for the past year, and seeing it come together has been something beyond amazing.

Easy Monday's - How To Limit Your List

I used to be just like everyone else, stressing out on a Monday, spending hours on the computer sending e-mails, while trying to run errands and get laundry done.

That was until I shortened my to do list and let the day run it's own course.

I was always so stressed out on a Monday that I ended up setting up a horrible, stressful week for myself.

Now my Mondays consist of a short 3 item to do list, 3 things that I MUST get done today. Once I'm done with that list, well, then that's it. I then let the day take on it's own course.

I thought that maybe I'd forget a couple of things, maybe I'd miss out on something important that needed to be done. Or maybe that I would take forever to do those 3 things.

What happened really blew my mind.

I ended up not only completing my 3 items within the first 2 hours of waking up, but the rest of the day was just so super easy because I didn't have this huge long list to rush over.

I casually got laundry done while catching up with TV, enjoyed my day running errands and going by the gym, and was completely relaxed as I waited in the carpool to pick up my child from school.

My blog posts were more easily written and e-mails were replied to promptly before dinner.

It was amazing how easily your mentality can switch when you weren't bombarded with the massive monday to do list.

Now every night, I create a new list of 3 things that I need to get done the next day, and every day has become this smooth transition that lets me be spontaneous, yet productive.

Hard Work Can Kind Of Teach You Something

"Soo, can we buy one of these?" - Truly

I've owned my residential cleaning services for almost 4 years now. I started when my daughter was born, and she will be 4 next month. Wow. Time flies doesn't it.

Automating My Business

I started my business 3 years ago. After my daughter was born, I was only 18 and didn't have the heart to leave her every single day and work some job making $7/hour. I would have to work, all day, every day, to just even afford our essentials. Luckily, I had the help of my family who provided everything for us, but I wanted to look at our things and think "I provided this." 

One day my mother brought up the subject of house cleaning, and how my aunts were also thinking about cleaning homes. In my area, cleaning a home for 2 to 3 hours, I researched that I could charge at least $100. So I began cleaning a couple of houses a week, and a couple of years later, here I am running a business and managing 4 employees.

One step that I've been taking recently is automating my business. After hiring my employees, I found that I wanted to stay home with my daughters more, but wasn't able to because of always being on the phone, having to fill in on cleaning homes, and chasing down clients for estimates and billing.

Here is how I fixed all of that: