Is the dynamic between your work life and school holidays exactly as you would like it to be? (and I mean your absolute ideal)
Do you believe it is possible to work only when you want to during school holidays without your business suffering?
These are important questions to consider if you want to create your ideal lifestyle.
Managing Your Business and School Holidays
In the previous post 7 Tips to Manage your Home Business during School Holidays we looked at things you can do to manage the dynamic between your home business and family life during school holidays.
Those things will help you manage your current situation. But, if your current situation isn’t your ideal, you need to know the answers to the questions above to get on a path to something better.
How do you go about getting your work life, school holidays and family life to be ideal?
Here are some suggestions to get you started on designing future school summer holidays to be ideal:
- Believe it is possible to create your ideal. If you don’t then you are not going to be in the mindset that will allow you to create what you really want.
- Stop thinking balance. Start thinking design. Many parents are so focussed on balancing everything that it stops them from designing things how they really want them to be. For more information on this read The Curse of Work Life Balance and Why work-life balance is misleading.
- Work out what ideal means to you – forget any perceived limitations and write down, in the present tense what you, your kids, your work life and lifestyle is like during school holidays when it is ideal. Start taking action to turn this into reality.
- Include family life & lifestyle in your business planning – many people review and make business plans and decisions in isolation from the rest of their life. Big mistake. Look for creative ways to re-design how your business operates and earns revenue around your family life. Do this at least monthly.
- Keep focussed on the end game – design your actions plans, schedule and what you spend your time on around your big picture.
The main point I am making here is this:
If you are not happy with the dymanic between your business, family life and school holidays, then start designing it so that you are.
It is 100% possible. And the rewards, well, they are priceless.
But it is essential to remember this – don’t wait. Start working on how you want the dynamic between your business and school holidays to be for future summers NOW. Get busy designing, then put action plans in place to make it so.
What challenges do you face during school holidays? Do you have any suggestions to add to this list?
In the next post we will look at one of the main obstacles that keep people from creating their ideal lifestyle.
