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Nell Taliercio has been blogging about her MommysPlace.net website and the recent changes she’s making to the site.

Christina Lemmey interviewed me as one of their wahm success stories over there and I thought I would share that.

If you’re just getting started you might find it inspiring and valuable too.

Cara of The Household Helper took a detour from her usual topic – household management – to talk about personal finance, namely, the recession and what we as individuals can do about it.

Her guest was Christine McKinley, a CPA who writes helpful advice for us wahm/internet marketing types. This show reminded me of my overall philosophy around finances.

I don’t believe that recession has anything to do with me as an individual, and if you listen to the show, you’ll get some good advice from Christine about maximizing your personal finances regardless of what is going on in the nation at large.

I believe in personal responsibility. Succeed or fail – it’s mostly up to me, not what the Feds are doing or not doing, not what my neighbor is doing or not doing.

I believe in choices. If gas is expensive, I can whine about it or I can do something productive. I can drive less often and with more care. I can spend less in other discretionary budget areas. I can convert my car to a Greasel. I can increase my earnings.

But sitting around wringing my hands about “the economy” is a worthless exercise.

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On Moms Morning Show today, Kelly talked about participating in the 31 Days to a Better Blog. She also put a challenge out there at Mom Masterminds.

I’m always up for a good challenge so I jumped right in. Day One, I updated my boring old About page over at my other blog. I made it a little longer, more personal, more upbeat and benefit driven.

But I’m also going to be making some changes here too. First, moving to Wordpress. (No offense Blogger, but it’s over. I’ve moved on. It’s not you. It’s me. Ok, it is you. I found someone else!)

I have a VA working on this now. I also have a super cute new blog skin I’ll be using.

Do you want to participate? Read the 31 Days article here and leave a comment below and let me know!

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Last week on Mom’s Morning Show, we kicked off the first of the panel style format. 4 of us discussed the topic at hand, which was Being Positive in Life and Business.

We each ranked ourselves on a scale of 1-1o. I gave myself an 8. One of the reasons I’m able to stay positive despite challenges is by focusing on what’s going right in my life.

I started keeping a Gratitude Journal a few months back. It’s not complicated. I just write down 5 things at night before I go to bed. They could be simple like “a really great cup of coffee”, or more deep like “healthy children”.

I find that the more I do this, the more grateful I feel. And when I’m feeling grumpy, I can look back and see that it’s when I’ve neglected to do this daily practice.

Most of us are amazingly fortunate to be here on this planet and to be alive and have enough wealth to own a computer and live in a warm home and have adequate food and clothing. Compared to many we’re all rich.

The mere act of sitting down every day and documenting at least one thing that you are grateful for is a powerful way to begin or end your day (I like doing it at night because I sometimes involve my kids and talk to them during the bedtime routine about what they were particularly grateful for that day).

Gratitude is one of the most powerful emotions a person can feel and it’s literally impossible to feel sad at the same time.

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There was a time when I was truly fed up with goals. Goals had gotten me in debt, goals had gotten me frustrated beyond belief, goals made me depressed and anxious and goals created tears.

Then I realized that the types of goals I was setting were all wrong for me.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t do well with outcome oriented goals. I do VERY well with ACTION oriented goals.

You see, one type has to do with what others do. Will they sign up for my mailing list, will they buy my product, will they visit my site.

The other type has to do with what I do. How often I’ll blog, how many articles I’ll write, how many pages of content I’ll add.

I don’t know about you, but I’m far better at controlling what I do than what other people do!

The other week on Mom’s Morning Show, Tishia, Chele and Kelly spoke about goals. They discussed the fact that setting realistic goals is very important, especially for a new work at home Mom. And that if you need money now, working by the hour offering your services is the way to go – and you can always build up your passive income on the side while you get some cash flowing in.

Great advice, that!

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