Blogging Boomers #153
By · CommentsA collection of interesting and entertaining blog posts all in one place – that’s what a blog Carnival is all about. Each week, member bloggers submit their best work to that week’s host so readers can pick from the most interesting posts for the week. This week’s Blogging Boomers Carnival is being hosted by Vaboomer. Head on over to read about reducing the cost of prescription drugs, political text messaging, things men can do to save themselves, an extraordinary retirement and how to choose glasses that look fabulous after 40.
Andrea J. Stenberg
What’s your relationship with money?
By · CommentsIf you are in business you must focus on making a profit. Without profit, without earning descent money, you don’t have a business, you have a hobby.
Putting your focus on profit doesn’t make you a Ferengi. It is a necessary part of the business world. When you have a j-o-b, someone else is responsible for marketing, office space, administration and designing a business plan. You show up, do your job and get paid for your time.
But when you own your own business, even if you have employees, you are ultimately responsible for every part of your business. That’s why you charge a higher hourly rate than you would if you worked for someone else. Very few entrepreneurs bill 40 hours per week.
But in spite of this, many entrepreneurs have an uneasy relationship with money. And it is a relationship, as I was reminded by Iyabo Asani in a teleseminar I attended last night. In this teleseminar she said that money represents an exchange of energy. You provide a services (expend energy) and the customer gives you money in exchange.
However, if you have a problem relationship with money, it spills over into other parts of your business life. If you always feel there is never enough money, then it is often because you lack value in yourself. This can manifest itself in a lack of clients or in attracting clients who can’t or won’t pay what you’re worth.
What Iyabo said made a lot of sense to me. I know in my own life, my relationship with money hasn’t always run smooth. I don’t come from an entrepreneurial background so making money isn’t always seen as a good thing. This makes for some interesting thought processes when you’re in business, let me tell you.
However, when I focus on money, when I focus on cleaning up my relationship with money, things improve.
How? Read More→
Springtime Blogging Boomers Carnival
By · CommentsIt’s an unseasonably warm March day here in Owen Sound. The sun is out, the sky is blue, the snow is melting. Of course, we Canadians know mother nature is just teasing us because we’re bound to get at least one more good snow storm. However tempting it is, I never put away my winter coats and boots until the end of April. No sense tempting fate.
Whatever the weather where you are, why not take a moment to sample some of the blog posts by the members of the Blogging Boomers Carnival. This weekly collection of the best posts by an eclectic mix of baby boomer bloggers is bound to include something of interest to you.
So head on over to this week’s host, the Midlife Crisis Queen, and read what’s being offered this week.
Andrea J. Stenberg
My Secret Get-Through-the-Day Strategy
By · CommentsI have a confession to make. Even though I’m an adult – a middle-aged one at that – and I’m not currently parenting a breastfeeding baby, I nap. There, I’ve said it. I’m a napper.
Oh, it’s not like I nap every day. If you call me at 2 p.m. and I don’t answer, it doesn’t necessarily mean I’m in snoozville. It’s much more likely that I’m taking a late lunch or I can’t locate the cordless phone.
But the truth is, at least a few times a month, I will lay down after lunch and sleep.
How did this happen? It’s not like I’ve always been a napper. I can even remember in kindergarten (yes, waaaaaaaaay back then) laying on the floor and wishing “nap time” would hurry up and finish so I could get on with things.
So if at the ripe old age of five I was able to make it through the afternoon, why can’t I now?
There’s a couple of things at play. First, it is not at all uncommon for me to be sitting at my computer by 4 a.m. In fact, I prefer days when I get up that early. Think of it: I can have three and a half hours of work done before I even wake my son up for school. By noon, I’ve put in a full day. If I want to take the afternoon off and watch a movie, read a trashy novel, or even take a nap, I can easily do it without feeling guilty.
And if I work until my son gets home at 3:30 I can really get a lot accomplished.
Now it’s not as if I set my alarm for 4 a.m. and force myself out of bed. Far from it. My alarm is usually set for 6. However, very frequently I wake up a 4 a.m. And it’s not one of those groggy, peer at the clock, get up, stumble to the bathroom and then decide whether or not to go back to sleep. Most days when I wake up at 4 I’m wide awake. If I resist and try to stay in bed, sleep won’t come. Over time, I’ve learned when I wake up at 4, I might as well get up.
However, the 4 a.m. mornings are not usually the days I nap. Read More→
