However, if you don't find a job, it's really hard to live on your husband's income alone. Children's school expenses, monthly rent, utilities, living expenses, all kinds of money and so on. My parents are getting old, and maybe they will get sick one day or something. It's just that the sky is falling. After all, two people can earn a little more.
It would be great if I had a job that I could do at home, take care of my children and earn money to support my family.
So what should we do? The book Money Mom teaches us to discover our potential and talent, to start a business plan, to carry it out, and to meet all kinds of obstacles in the process of starting a business. Crystal Paine taught us how to achieve financial freedom with real cases and practical skills of several mothers.
Dean Turner, vice president of American Fule Chicken Fast Food Company, said: What are you saving money for? Family planning, traveling with children, or new furniture? Have you found that if you can earn a little extra money, the pressure will be much less when you pay the monthly payment? Are you looking for a way to give full play to your skills and talents and meet the needs of others or your family and relatives? If this is your dream, Crystal Paine will provide you with all practical steps to help you realize your dream in this book. Follow these great suggestions, and soon you will need to plan how to better manage the extra income.
Crystal Paine is a best-selling author in The New York Times and a mother of three children. Her grandfather told her father: Don't get into debt unless it's for the house. This sentence has a great influence on her life. In 2007, she started MoneySaving.com Blog, with an average monthly readership of 2 million, which is the most popular way to help modern women achieve financial freedom.
Making Money Mom teaches us how to realize financial freedom and how to face various situations in practice from five aspects.
First, discover your potential.
Second, five questions about starting a business
Third, action.
Fourth, obstacles on the road.
Fifth, live generously.
This book will make your blood boil and bring you a lot of inspiration. I believe you will get inspiration from it.
First, discover your potential.
Maybe you will say, I am nothing, I am just a very ordinary person. My eloquence is not good, I can't do sales, I'm not very proficient in computers and so on. In fact, everyone is unique, but we didn't find it.
At first, Crystal Paine also put forward many other entrepreneurial ideas, but they all failed. It was not until she successfully started a blog that she suddenly remembered that she liked reading and writing stories when she was a child. At that time, she wrote more than a dozen diaries and corresponded with many pen pals. When she first came into contact with the computer, she spent a lot of time writing and drawing. Her present job was her interest when she was young, but it took many years and took many detours to react.
Think carefully about what you liked and were good at when you were a child. What skills do you have at present? If you really can't figure it out, please ask your family and friends around you to give some advice. As the saying goes, the authorities are fascinated and the bystanders are clear.
Second, five questions about starting a business
When you have one or several initial ideas, you need to ask yourself a few questions, which can help you clear your mind and make you more sure of your ideas and next steps.
1. Am I passionate about this idea and willing to take action to realize it?
It is good to have ideas, but it is not enough to have good ideas, but also to have enough passion. It's like two people falling in love If you want to consider getting married, it is not enough to just like it. You also need to consider whether the three views are consistent, whether I can tolerate her/his shortcomings, whether I am willing to spend my life with her/him and so on.
Only when you are very passionate about something will you be willing to spend time and energy to do it well.
2. Who are the potential customers?
For example, when we go to the mall to buy clothes, the floors are divided according to age groups. The third floor is suitable for about 25 years old, the fourth floor is suitable for about 50 years old, and the sixth floor is children's wear. Customers will choose the right floor according to their age. If the clothes are mixed, customers will have a hard time finding them.
If you can think from the standpoint of the target group, then this thing will be much more handy.
3. Can I afford the cost of starting a business?
Crystal Paine said: Dancing in chains is not a good start.
Indeed, borrowing money to start a business will always cause a lot of concern. Too much pressure won't do.
Ideally, your savings can support the expenses for three to six months, which will not only reduce the pressure, but also continue to invest the initial profits in entrepreneurship, making your career more stable.
4. Have I done enough research?
Without adequate research, it is easy to take detours and even fail.
It's like if we want to go to a strange place, we must ask the people who have been there. What are the places worth visiting? What do you get from these places and so on. In this way, when we set out, we won't bump like headless flies, wasting time and gaining little. Unfortunately, I haven't been to many places since I came back.
5. Am I willing to fail?
Life is not smooth sailing, so is entrepreneurship. There are successes and failures. Ask yourself, if you fail, are you willing to keep trying? Failure is inevitable, but as the saying goes: failure may lead to disappointment; But if you don't try, you are doomed to fail.
Third, action.
With an idea and a lot of investigation and preparation, now you should determine why you did it. In other words, state your mission, and one sentence can sum up the reasons why you mainly do this. Determining this item will enable you to formulate specific action plans and implementation strategies. Set long-term goals and then break them down into small goals.
In the meantime, you need to consider the following aspects.
1, brand development, what name to take, can make others remember at once, and can clearly know what you do.
2. marketing. The author suggests that a free trial service can be provided to encourage people to pass it on from mouth to mouth. To tell the truth, the power of people and word of mouth is more effective than any advertisement, because it is introduced by people you trust, so most people will try it.
3. Cross-recommend with other entrepreneurs. For example, if you are a makeup artist who makes up the bride, you can establish contact with the wedding company or photography. You can introduce customers to them and they will help you.
Fourth, obstacles on the road.
How to balance family and career requires good time management and how to allocate children's daily time so that they can take care of their children and their careers. Be sure to allocate it well, otherwise your energy will be limited and you will have thoughts left when you are exhausted.
Crystal Paine teaches you a good method in the book, that is, setting time parameters and dividing the daily working time into several small segments.
Everyone has a different way of life. There are always some people who don't agree with your practice. If you can't stop the sound when you don't support it, just stay away.
Maybe one day you will want to give up because of too much pressure, or when all your efforts fail, you will think of giving up. When you want to give up, you might as well take a vacation to calm yourself down, re-examine your plan, check if there are any problems that hinder your success, talk to your trusted friends and listen to their opinions.
Fifth, live generously.
There is a sentence in Crystal Paine's book that impressed me deeply. She said: We are destined to be managers and wise managers of money, time, values and priorities.
We pursue financial freedom and earn more money not to be slaves of money and reputation, but to control it.
Material things may be taken away by natural and man-made disasters without warning. We should help the people around us and treat others as generously as possible. This is what we should pursue.
The book "Making Money Mom" is to let an ordinary person find his own way out by discovering his own potential, talent, skills and knowledge, and teach us how to start a business and how to solve some problems encountered in the process of starting a business. The most special is the generous life proposed by Crystal Paine. The blind pursuit of more money can not bring us happiness, nor can we gain peace. Learn to be the master of money, manage money and live generously, so that we can live more fully.
As Crystal Paine said: My goal is to be a good housekeeper, manage what I have, and bring about some changes with my platform, energy, time, talent and even money.