Comments on: Challenge: The 10 Hour Work Week http://startupprincess.com/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:09:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: startupprincess http://startupprincess.com/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3510 startupprincess Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:15:36 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/#comment-3510 FG Deborah-80% of Startup Princess posts in the first year were written while I was nursing! I figured if I have to sit, I might as well type! Without nursing we might not have a site today...interesting blessing, eh!? FG Deborah-80% of Startup Princess posts in the first year were written while I was nursing! I figured if I have to sit, I might as well type! Without nursing we might not have a site today…interesting blessing, eh!?

]]> By: Deborah Gardner, One Heart Bulgaria http://startupprincess.com/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3503 Deborah Gardner, One Heart Bulgaria Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:38:40 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/#comment-3503 I nurse my baby and compose emails with just my right hand ALL the time! I'm getting pretty fast at typing with one hand! :) Oh what we do! I nurse my baby and compose emails with just my right hand ALL the time! I’m getting pretty fast at typing with one hand! :) Oh what we do!

]]> By: Heather Allard http://startupprincess.com/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3422 Heather Allard Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:54:46 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/#comment-3422 Kelly, I'm glad I'm not the only one who sometimes loses the balance. I have actually checked email and tended to business (ok, and a little shopping!) on my laptop *while nursing my baby boy!*. I licensed my products to another company and that has certainly helped create more balance in my life. I have just begun my "next" business, called The Mogul Mom, and it is a series of ebooks and a mentoring program devoted to helping other moms who run businesses and raise families.I hope to have these books available by the end of 2007 and I hope to save moms time, money and sanity. Keep up the great work...you are a fabulous role model. You are "real" and you are wonderful. Heather Allard p.s. I love Timothy Ferriss' The 4-Hour Work Week. I just recommended it to Heather Ledeboer of Mom 4 Life. Is my workweek 4 hours? Hell no...but I'm working on it. I think Tim should have one of us write a companion book called The 168-Hour Workweek for Moms. Ha! Kelly,
I’m glad I’m not the only one who sometimes loses the balance. I have actually checked email and tended to business (ok, and a little shopping!) on my laptop *while nursing my baby boy!*.

I licensed my products to another company and that has certainly helped create more balance in my life. I have just begun my “next” business, called The Mogul Mom, and it is a series of ebooks and a mentoring program devoted to helping other moms who run businesses and raise families.I hope to have these books available by the end of 2007 and I hope to save moms time, money and sanity.

Keep up the great work…you are a fabulous role model. You are “real” and you are wonderful.

Heather Allard
p.s. I love Timothy Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Work Week. I just recommended it to Heather Ledeboer of Mom 4 Life. Is my workweek 4 hours? Hell no…but I’m working on it. I think Tim should have one of us write a companion book called The 168-Hour Workweek for Moms. Ha!

]]> By: startupprincess http://startupprincess.com/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3336 startupprincess Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:54:41 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/#comment-3336 I've been getting emails about my new schedule...yep, I'm STILL doing it and it's been great. It's requiring a lot of discipline to stay away from the computer. I'm planning when I'm away though and so when I get to it there's more strategy of what to accomplish. So far so good! I’ve been getting emails about my new schedule…yep, I’m STILL doing it and it’s been great. It’s requiring a lot of discipline to stay away from the computer. I’m planning when I’m away though and so when I get to it there’s more strategy of what to accomplish. So far so good!

]]> By: startupprincess http://startupprincess.com/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3321 startupprincess Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:16:50 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/#comment-3321 Hello Startup Princesses! Thanks for sharing your experiences here, glad to hear I'm not alone! D-journaling with kids sounds like a great evening, good for you! L-happy to see you here, glad we're friends here...please keep telling us how we can help you grow your biz! Eva, welcome! Glad you enjoyed 4hwww too...tell us what specifically you have applied from the book. Hello Startup Princesses! Thanks for sharing your experiences here, glad to hear I’m not alone!

D-journaling with kids sounds like a great evening, good for you!

L-happy to see you here, glad we’re friends here…please keep telling us how we can help you grow your biz!

Eva, welcome! Glad you enjoyed 4hwww too…tell us what specifically you have applied from the book.

]]> By: Eva http://startupprincess.com/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3310 Eva Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:46:42 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/#comment-3310 Yes, balancing family and work can be challenging for mothers, female entrepreneurs. 4hww is a good guide. Thanks to www.timferriss.com I've organized my life much better now. Yes, balancing family and work can be challenging for mothers, female entrepreneurs. 4hww is a good guide. Thanks to http://www.timferriss.com I’ve organized my life much better now.

]]> By: Lisa R http://startupprincess.com/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3300 Lisa R Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:05:25 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/#comment-3300 I suspect we all suffer from this. I thought I was the only one who sat with the laptop while the kids bathed;) Truthfully though I've also tried to eliminate laptop use as it does eat up time. And I found that even when I wasn't using it, when my kids saw it, they felt they only had half my attention. I'm going to check out that book you mentioned as well. I've come to the conclusion over the years that my biggest challenge in life is to learn balance. I've yet to achieve it. Yet at the same time, I think I must be getting something out working so much or I wouldn't be doing it. As to Start Up Princess, great content and community are important to me. Truthfully posts like this from the heart of yourself and other Start Up Princesses are valuable to me because I know I'm not alone with our struggle to juggle being an entrepreneur and families. I suspect we all suffer from this. I thought I was the only one who sat with the laptop while the kids bathed;) Truthfully though I’ve also tried to eliminate laptop use as it does eat up time. And I found that even when I wasn’t using it, when my kids saw it, they felt they only had half my attention. I’m going to check out that book you mentioned as well. I’ve come to the conclusion over the years that my biggest challenge in life is to learn balance. I’ve yet to achieve it. Yet at the same time, I think I must be getting something out working so much or I wouldn’t be doing it.

As to Start Up Princess, great content and community are important to me. Truthfully posts like this from the heart of yourself and other Start Up Princesses are valuable to me because I know I’m not alone with our struggle to juggle being an entrepreneur and families.

]]> By: Deborah Gardner, One Heart Bulgaria http://startupprincess.com/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3298 Deborah Gardner, One Heart Bulgaria Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:02:09 +0000 http://startupprincess.com/wordpress/challenge-the-10-hour-work-week/#comment-3298 Kelly, Looks like you and I have come to some of the same conclusions at the same time, again--family first! Lately, I too have been trying to figure out how to re-balance my life so that my focus isn't constantly on my non-profit. I love working for the Bulgarian orphans, but I don't want my own kids to become orphans in the mean time. It is so hard to keep everything in balance...home, family, work, church. It seems I really am out of balance because my thoughts are contantly focused on emails, phone calls, fundraising, and all kinds of ideas for the organization. I have decided to make several changes though--so we need to chat on the phone and share some more of our ideas! Each of us Startup Princesses has so much talent to offer to the world. We can do SO much good. Really, we are quite powerful! However, our families still need us the most! They are the most important and our greatest joy should be in loving and caring for them. Even though it can become so mundane and exhausting, taking care of a family is the greatest thing a woman could ever do! Tonight I spent my evening helping three of my five kids write in their journals until 11:00 PM. I didn't think about anything else (meaning work or what I was going to do to relax this evening, etc.)and focused on how cute my kids were being with all their big thoughts and funny and sincere ways of expressing themselves in their journals. It felt really good! My kids loved the time we spent together and something tells me that this will always be a good memory for them...and me. Kelly,

Looks like you and I have come to some of the same conclusions at the same time, again–family first!

Lately, I too have been trying to figure out how to re-balance my life so that my focus isn’t constantly on my non-profit. I love working for the Bulgarian orphans, but I don’t want my own kids to become orphans in the mean time. It is so hard to keep everything in balance…home, family, work, church. It seems I really am out of balance because my thoughts are contantly focused on emails, phone calls, fundraising, and all kinds of ideas for the organization. I have decided to make several changes though–so we need to chat on the phone and share some more of our ideas!

Each of us Startup Princesses has so much talent to offer to the world. We can do SO much good. Really, we are quite powerful! However, our families still need us the most! They are the most important and our greatest joy should be in loving and caring for them. Even though it can become so mundane and exhausting, taking care of a family is the greatest thing a woman could ever do! Tonight I spent my evening helping three of my five kids write in their journals until 11:00 PM. I didn’t think about anything else (meaning work or what I was going to do to relax this evening, etc.)and focused on how cute my kids were being with all their big thoughts and funny and sincere ways of expressing themselves in their journals. It felt really good! My kids loved the time we spent together and something tells me that this will always be a good memory for them…and me.

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