WAHM Value: My Time
I love it. I love discussion. I love making people look good and hard at how their perceptions get in their way. Most of all I love discussion that makes me stop, because truly I have to look at my own perceptions. Chrissy has been really egging on my thinking by continuing the discussion on wahm values. Keep bringing it Chrissy, every post is making me think about something different I may be doing or not doing.
All this WAHM value talk has made me think hard about my work life. I have major offline changes and I’ll post those later, but they have been truly major and all this talk of my value has made the decisions easier. Not saying that I’m waltzing through said changes, shouting with glee, but if this talk didn’t come up right now I would be dragging my feet. lol Remember this blog was created because I balance my two business personalities. Some are online and my personal training is offline, but both are mine alone 
The offline biz has not been easy to balance with the family and is yet another reason that forced changes and thinking have been awesome.
The last week I have been even better about scheduling and balance. This is not an easy task as all this discussion has gotten me very excited about my projects and a couple of clients projects as well. Not to mention two of my sites really kicking it this week. Hmm, wonder if it has anything to do with my passion being back in the biz and putting more value on my time?
I’m being better about charging for my time. One client wants my opinion on things, not even proofreading but just my opinion after reading documents. Yes, yell at me, but there have been times in short documents that I haven’t added the time in. You can imagine after a few emails back and forth every week, how that can add up. It’s not like he doesn’t want me to charge him for that time, that was my own odd perception. Yes, you can commence the “yelling” at me now, I’m in a good place to be able take it. lol
It’s that fine line that I am crossing over. I’ve given away a lot of help for free over the years. I’m grateful that I have and I will continue to pass free help on, but there is also getting to be a much better line for when it is too much and I’m getting better at getting that across in my emails as well. Years of freely helping others is helping me set up ecourses and reports to further help more people. That coaching was not in vain, however I need to keep it under control so I don’t become bitter and it takes up time I need to be working my business so I can continue to work from home. This also puts value to my time.
Getting control of my time spent on certain aspects of biz and projects helps me map out where my time is spent and how I can work to lower that time. Be it through outsourcing some of my tasks or creating products to help even more. Analyzing how I’m spending my online time will help me value that time or show me where my time wasters are.
Just because I love to help other moms doesn’t mean that I should always do it for free. I know this is a big mindset I have to change. I’ve been on work at home forums since 1999, getting a ton of advice and passing it as well. I think the fact that I have gotten so much free info over the years is a reason why I’m having some issues crossing that line. But knowing is most of the battle right?
