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What Sparked All These Changes?

January 21, 2008

Mara asks: “You’ve been making a lot of changes in your life lately. What was the biggest thing that made you take that step forward into making these changes? What caused to you refocus to the degree that you have?”

Hi Mara!  Yes, I have been making a crazy number of changes in my life and my business lately.  I sold my house, moved downstate, changed many aspects of my internet business dramatically – and it’s only getting crazier because I’ve just decided to move again.  This time from Lansing to Portland.

We’re driving back and forth to Portland every day and that means  almost five hours on the highway each week – five precious hours that I’d much rather spend in some other way. (Not to mention the gas money could be spent in some other way too!)

So we’re apartment hunting again.  I’m looking to downsize a bit for a season and then work towards buying a nice condominium in another year or two.

The main spark for all this change is definitely my niece’s very high risk pregnancy and the birth of her four amazingly healthy babies in 2007.

I’m giving a big chunk of my life over to helping out with those adorable babies.  Right now my son and I are sleeping days and covering the night shift with the babies so that Mom and Dad can get some much needed sleep each day.  Once they get to sleeping well at night and they run out of family leave time, I’ll switch to helping out more during the day.

This means I have less time to work.  I’ve committed to a four hour work day, something I just blogged more about today over at Work at Home Moms Talk Radio.

So most of the changes you see for me are at least indirectly caused by the need to work less and have more free time :)

It’s an exciting time in my business really.  I’m working less, but my income continues to motor along quite well thanks to the smart decisions I’ve made in previous years.

Thanks for the question :)

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