Desperately need to come back home!

Lydia is in so many after school programs, I can't keep up! Karate every day, Scholars bowl once a week, Girl Scouts once a week and compititions in between and on week-ends. This week-end was Karate Tournament of Champions. She won 1st place in Forms, 2nd place in Fighting and 3rd place in Weapons.

Keeping up with her and my full time job and selling Avon is a little more than I bargained for. I try to set goals, but they backfire or get put aside. I don't have any time left to work on my websites I have.

Here is a pic of Lydia with her trophies she won this week-end.

Setting Goals

I have learned from www.athomeresources.com the value of setting goals. This is something that I have often done but have never followed through or even rememered what my goals where to begin with.
The idea is to set small obtainable goals by writing them down. Start small, say daily or weekly goals, make a list and check it often to see where you are at. Or if you like set daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or longer goals all at once; keep a journal.
When you look back over your list and see what all you have accomplished that you set out to do you will be amazed and inspired to do more.
I have reached my first daily/weekly goals I had set and feel great and am ready to set another weekly goal and even go for bigger longer goals.
Even if you fail to reach some of your goals, you will have them in writing and be able to relfect and see just where it was that you went wrong and be able to learn from your mistakes. So don't get discouraged if you don't reach all of your goals, use that to improve.

Small Make-Over

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Today I had a small make-over to improve my self image. I want to be successful at having a home business selling Avon and needed a change to make myself feel more confident. This was not done proffesionally, just a friend where I work at a small electronics place. Hopefully each day I can become more confident in myself to reach higher to achieve my goals.

Join likeminded forums

However you chose to save or make money at home you need to connect with others in your area of concern. When I was doing PTR/PTC programs to make money I joined those type of forums. They will keep you updated on new programs and who is paying and who is scamming.
When I was doing auctions to make money I joined likewise forums, a few of those you have to pay a small yearly or monthly fee. Paying the fee got me at first but then after I realized the hardwork the admins put into the sites I didn't mind it so bad. Most will do thier best to keep the scammers at bay. Every now and then a few will slip through the cracks but you can bet the same ones will not scam over and over before being found out.
I have always glanced at WAHM forums, read them often just didn't post very often. That was a grey area for me, I really wasn't sure my direction in life. Most of them where way over my head in a way. I didn't call what I did WAH, I called it SAH (stay at home). I am glad I kept the links in my bookmarks because I am becoming more active in those type forums now.
So besides just reading blogs and visiting other links, get involved! Get with others that share your same passions. You get to stay up on the latest news in your area of concren, exchange ideas of ways to improve your needs. Helping others while helping yourself can also bring great joy to your life.
I have joined many many forums in my life many have come and gone but a few I have a real connection to and feel as if the board members are just like family. I still get cards at Christmas and my birthday from a few of these friends I have met online over the years. Whatever direction my life takes me I always have a place to go to when I need support. Sometimes thats all we need is a little push from friends to find what our real potential is. Anyways my point is, you don't have to go at this alone! Join a forum or 2 and find people that share your goals, making and saving money is something that many many people like. (Most people, lol).

Avon

I decided to sign up for Avon so I can try and make some money to come back home and work full time from home again. If you need any Avon please see my link http://www.youravon.com/smclin
Email me for a discount! This will be paid to you by paypal if you have it or snailmail if you don't after the order clears. Shipping outside my area is only $3.00!
I will be happy to work out a nice discount for my readers!

RoboForm

http://www.roboform.com/download.html
Get those freebie samples, sweepstakes entries and other forms filled quickly with roboform. I have been using this ever since gator went spyware and haven't had a problem since. You tell it what info you want it to fill out after you download it. Then it stays across the top of your browser and you click fill in when you see the boxes in forms hightlighted yellow.
It will save you lots of time from manually punching in all of that info, no matter how fast you can type! A 1 click to add all info is super fast.
I can barely remember the days when I used to fill out like 3 sweeps or freebies in an hour, now I can do 10 or more an hour depending how much I stay and read on each site.
It's free to download and will save you time.

My Points

My points is one of the easiest and long term earning sites around. Email me at mclin5@bellsouth.net and let me refer you. You get points just for reading your email and clicking the link, you can get extra points taking surveys or trying services online or even shoping online. I have been a memer of this one for years and get paid several times a year from them in giftcards, gas giftcards is what I turn my points in for.
I have let many of my PTC/PTR sites go, but this one comes in my email every day and very quick and painless process. No set time limit to keep link open, nothing else to do jusy click it and look and leave if not interested.
The earnings depends on what all you use the site for, I rarely do anything other than read the emails and take an occassional survey. This activity will earn me a few $10 gascards a year. A few years back I was buying a lot of stuff through best buy and earned twice the amount of gas cards as normal.
I won't be bringing you many of the PTC/PTR unless one of my readers specifically ask for them. I did LOVE them once upon a time, but who has the time? I have done thousands of these sites, seen a few make it big and seen a ton fail. This activity took up way too much of my time with very little to show from it. So I just kept a few of my favorites, ones that never hassle me when time to cash out. As well as the easiest of all, straight in my email! No hunting down a bunch of sites and stuff. Just wait for them to come to me and I click or delete if no time.