October 13, 2008
MYTH: Alice, You Didn’t Slow Down After The Baby!
Quite a few times in the past couple of months, people have told me they were surprised that I didn’t slow down (in regard to my online business) after the baby was born.
Truth be told, this has been a crazy household and there has been little time for work. With a brand new baby girl, healing from surgery and my youngest son starting kindergarden (2 1/2 hours in the morning), the days are full of welcome interruptions, needed rest and chaos. I absolutely DID slow down. Not only did I not have a choice, but it was great to have the time just to enjoy the new addition to our family.
But of course, if you visit this blog regularly, are my customer or newsletter subscriber…it did appear that I was as hard at work as ever. Blogs posts kept publishing, emails kept broadcasting, the Sweetie Saturday Report Club goodies were sent to members on time, customer service continued to be delivered and so on.
Well, all of this was prepared before the baby was born. Blog posts were prewritten and scheduled in WordPress (a note on how I bulk publish blog posts QUICKLY is here). Emails were written, web pages that needed updating were prepared and reports were created and loaded in an advance. To ensure everything went off with a hitch, a full schedule and list of instructions was provided to my online business assistant (she’s a LIFESAVER!).
By doing this, I got 2 months ahead of schedule and it was a lot easier than you might think. By having everything planned out, it was easy to get everything set up and ready. By the way, if you use the free planning calendar…it’ll make it easier to do stuff like this. Whether you just want to get ahead “just in case” or your planning a vacation or even if you’re expecting a new bundle of joy too, it’s great to have that piece of mind.
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I downloaded and printed out my copy of your planning calendar the other day. I perforated it yesterday and will be using it today, tomorrow and probably every other day too! Funnily enough, I was just talking about scheduling yesterday…
Since I started work on you internet marketing sweetie course I can literally feel my brain going into overdrive! Shame I didn’t use it before now, but obviously I wasn’t ready to succeed; now I am.
Alice,
I know what you mean with a new little one in the house how you don’t want to slow down but you do.
I too did some planning ahead and getting things ready for life after the baby.
Thanks for this post and you are doing a great job keeping things flowing.
When I had my child almost 2 years ago, I was working for someone else’s business as a project manager. I tried to plan ahead and get things ready; I even trained my temporary replacement. Unfortunately, it didn’t help and I ended up getting back to work full-time 2 weeks after giving birth.
Now I have a lot more flexibility. I travel a lot, so I use bulk publishing on my Wordpress blog. I will check out the calendar you provided. Additionally, I set up a back-up plan so that someone else (my business partner) can perform critical tasks while I’m away.
Congratulations on your new baby! Best wishes!
Alice, it’s good news you’re spending time with your new baby. I was kind of worried for her
But yes, I supposed you were outsourcing and delegating lots of your work . I really admire how you’ve built your business so now you can enjoy that freedom. Working on that too!