@TarynP Teaching to think confidently, “These ppl don’t know who I am, but I’m the bomb.” #winATL

The emphasis is mine, because, I think it ROCKS!!! That tweet then reminded me of a couple of lines at the end of one of @ElizabethPW’s recent blog posts that really, really resonated with me. Here it is – you ready? Ok….

Knowing that I don’t need anything. Knowing that I’m already kickass.

Now that is freaking awesometastic.

Want. on. a. poster. Badly. Very badly.

And then I remembered the video that I watched from Tony Robbins last night. I just love that guy. It was his Special Holiday Message and his wife is in it for a snippet – she’s so cute! At the end of it, he added a clip of Jim Rohn, his mentor who just passed away. Tony said that his biggest takeaway from Jim was that YOU have to be amazing if you want your business to be amazing. How simple and how utterly, completely eye-opening. I had never heard Jim talk, though I’d been meaning to all week, after hearing so many people online talk about him. So I was really glad that Tony sent that video to us and that he’d attached the part from Jim Rohn.

Ok, so …basically, I’m having a good day today. If you couldn’t tell. And I don’t want to blow smoke up anyone’s a$$ – I know we’ll have bad days. I know that good days – amazing business days – good weather days – happy family days – don’t mean that everything will be rosy all the time. I can tell you that I had a perfectly ROTTEN day yesterday. It was cloudy, I argued with my hubby in the morning (great way to start the day. heh.) and I wasn’t feeling very well. I did, however, try to keep my head in the game. I listened to some positive podcasts and I pushed myself to get some work done even though I knew I was feeling lousy (mentally, emotionally and physically), because, I knew that if I didn’t – I would feel worse.

So I know there are bad days. Tomorrow might be one. (I think I’m talking to myself here more than anyone. Frealz.) I also know that if I want my business – meaning anything that I do online for pay, whether that be selling my own products, or being a virtual assistant or anything – to be amazing – I have to be amazing, too.

And the cool thing is, we all already are amazing. It’s just a matter of stepping into it.

So go on – step into your amazing.

And then comment on this post – because, it’ll make me feel that much more amazing!! (And see, that’s one more way we can be amazing – help others feel their amazing!)

So come on – what do you have to say to me today?

Working from Home — Examining your ‘Why’

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As Work at Home Moms, we talk about our “Why” as a positive thing. Our “Why” is our purpose, our reason, our muse. We refer to our ‘Why’ when we need inspiration or motivation to reach outside our comfort zone, to try a little harder, to keep going even when it’s hard. Our ‘Why’ helps us to succeed.

Today I was asking “Why work from home” in a slightly different tone. Today, I am home with a sick puppy and am up to my eyeballs in puppy puke.

I’m new to this puppy thing. I was warned up and down about how much work a puppy is, and I thought “I have two children. How hard can a puppy possibly be?!” Well, one difference is that newborn babies aren’t born with fangs –

at least mine weren’t. So, in between changing the gauze patches on my shredded arms (those teeth are sharp!), and hours of puppy school, I fell in love with this furry beast. He was added to my list of “Why’s”.

So, today, while I was composing my work at home mom newsletter, in the background I hear my furr-ball start to vomit — again. The thought that ran through my mind initially was not a happy “Why”. It was more like:

WHY in the world am I home to deal with this while my husband gets to sit in a quiet office all day?

WHY isn’t HE dealing with cleaning up the 8th pile of yucky stuff?

WHY don’t I get any peace and quiet while I work?!

After I cleaned up the puppy, rubbed his head and got him clean blankets, threw in another load of laundry, and climbed into bed with my sick 7 year old and my 3 year old to read stories, I had time to collect my thoughts. A little bit (ok, a LOT) of puppy puke was sure worth it.

And, later, when I made my phone call to my husband to tell him about our day, it wasn’t the puppy-puke I was telling him about….

I told him how our daughter said that she wanted to plant some jelly beans to grow a jelly bean tree. And, how the kids were playing the game of Life and I overheard their rules. They decided that the person who got the most parents
into the car won. That’s why I stay at home.

And, if a furry little tail starts wagging when I walk into the room? Well, that’s sure an added bonus.

So, the next time your warm and loving “Why” turns into a plea for help, take a deep breath and think of all the memories you would be missing — both good and not-so-good, if you weren’t a work at home mom.

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