After birth, many women face a difficult choice: to be a loving mother or a successful business woman. However, both can be effectively combined! Young mothers often prefer self-employment instead of working in the office. They know the price of their efforts and time and are real multifunctional workers, accustomed to an irregular schedule. If you decide to become a “business mother”, you need to remember some important recommendations that will help to achieve success.
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- Idea. Find your own niche based on your preferences, skills and talents. You need to remember the balance between reality and the dream, but constantly strive forward. If at the moment you cannot open your cafe due to lack of money, try baking cakes and cakes for sale at home. Or you can negotiate and deliver your products to a candy store nearby.
- Theory. If you are an economist or manager by training and really received knowledge at the institute, then they will be useful to you. But even if you are an artist or teacher, far from economic calculations - do not give up! Read some good books about creating and developing your own business, attend seminars and specialized exhibitions. This knowledge, multiplied by inspiration and desire, is quite enough at the initial stage!
- Practice. Of course, desire and book theory alone are not enough for a successful start. Try to find a real entrepreneur who has come his way with ups and downs, talk with him, sign up for a master class. You need practical knowledge about the prospects of your idea, about competition in this sector, the purchase of goods and the promotion of products. In any case, you will have to learn from your own mistakes, but it will be just wonderful if someone can at least slightly ease your thorny path.
- Documents. If you have seriously decided to start your own business (for example, open an online store), you will need to issue an SAP to pay taxes. You can get this knowledge from other business mothers. Their stories can be found on the Internet. Many of these mothers keep their blogs, describing their path in detail, and are happy to answer questions online.
- Finance. Few mothers on maternity leave have extra money, so you need to start small: take small orders that do not require serious investments. The main thing is the prospect of your business, the possibility of development and expansion.
- Environment. It is very useful to communicate with energetic people who, like you, are eager to change their lives. This will help motivate yourself and not lower your hands under the influence of laziness. A successful mother can develop her business only surrounded by the same “ideological romantics” as she herself. Do not think that there are no like-minded people around you. You can find them on the Internet in interest communities and profile forums.Even on playgrounds, moms are not all the same. Perhaps for some of them your ideas will become an incentive for change and personal growth. But who needs to be avoided are whiners and critics. They will only cause harm and sow doubts about the correctness of your chosen path.
- Dating. Help often comes from where you are not waiting. Therefore, do not lead a reclusive lifestyle: try to communicate more, support old and make new acquaintances - this can be very useful.
- To the previous paragraph. For example, our forum mom Anna says: “For a long time I regularly communicate in social networks with my friend, who moved abroad and publishes her own magazine there. Once she said that their publishing house plans to expand and start publishing in Ukraine. Before the decree, I was an editor and wrote articles on various resources, so she offered me a well-paid job as editor-in-chief. Really unexpected and good news! ”
- Opportunities. You need to determine how much of your internal resources you plan to spend on promoting the business. You should not take on too many tasks if you value a quiet family life. If you are determined to start your own business, negotiations, time pressure, dissatisfied customers, sleepless nights, negotiations and finding a balance between work, family and children will become an integral part of your life. And your attitude to all this is extremely important. If you are not ready for such prospects, then you will not be able to be happy even if you seriously improve your financial situation.
- Personality. If from now on you are not just a mom, but the face of your own business, then you should not forget about it. It is necessary to observe several new rules:
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- proper prioritization;
- mastering planning and time management;
- a civilized solution to all problems;
- refusal of excessive emotionality when discussing work issues;
- taking into account the interests of partners and customers;
- punctuality in everything (do not be late, do everything on time and deliver the goods on time);
- responsibility and fulfillment of one’s own promises;
- control over the employees representing your team;
- mastering the rules of business correspondence, as well as talking on the phone: the correct pronunciation, intelligible competent speech, the absence of errors and the correct intonations are the key to success in your business.
To become a good mother and a successful business woman is a quite achievable task. It is only necessary to make efforts and constantly strive for the goal!
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In my opinion it is very difficult, but quite possible. Only you need to correctly calculate your strength, time and plan everything. Only with a clear plan can these goals be achieved. Business does not tolerate chaos and disorganization. And of course, grandmothers should always come to the rescue, nowhere without them.
If you decide to give birth to a child, priority should be given to him, and business remains on the sidelines. If you have enough energy to do business, well, praise you. By the way, many mothers are engaged in blogging just on children's topics, thereby also earning and developing. But in any case, the child comes first!
I want to share my experience. I have two children, my daughter is 7 years old, and my son is 1 year old. After the birth of her daughter, she served the terms of the house on maternity leave, then went to work. But now, when she gave birth to a son, a financial question arose, I want to give the children as much as possible, but my husband’s salary was not enough for everything. Since childhood, I had a bunch of talents, I was engaged in needlework. Here, talents, so to speak, came to my aid) I found a bunch of master classes on the Internet, studied, made the first batch of bead jewelry, put it on websites. At first, my hands fell, people were interested, but they didn’t buy, but over time everything went well) Now, I can call myself a successful mom. I give enough attention to the kids. When the youngest is sleeping, I carry out orders. I manage to clean and cook, and my husband helps in the evening a little about the house. To become successful in business and to remain a good mom is simple, having at least some hobby)
Thank you for the article! Now, being on maternity leave, I am developing my business through the distribution of goods, purchasing them in China