This week is kinda fun for me because I have to admit the Lord blessed me with an entrepreneurial spirit. Yes, I was one of those kids that sold Lemonade on the street corner!!! Since then I have had several small home-based businesses (and a wonderful husband who has supported each and every crazy idea I’ve had).
I have done everything from selling clothes and rubberstamps for “home party” companies to painting and selling (quite successfully) tee shirts that I hand painted. Most recently I had a “Staging” business and for the past 20 years I have painted and personalized ornaments every Christmas, selling thousands of them to date.
I have never made a killing at any business (although the ornaments do pay for Christmas each year), but I did enjoy the small income that they generated and freedom to be at home while our boys were young.
Today’s Tip
Find your Niche!!
The businesses that have been the most successful for me were the one where I incorporated my God-given talent. I’m the first to admit that I am no Mary Englebreit or Thomas Kincaid, but I do enjoy drawing and creating artful things. So find your talent and start there! I have a friend who is an organizing whiz and she has started a home-based business helping small business owners get organized and stay there. My daughter-in-law, Jamie has an amazing talent for finding the best prices on hotels, air travel and rental cars. She is in the process of selling herself (and her talent) to companies who would save time and money by hiring her, via the internet as their in-house (all while she is in her house).
Nola
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Girlfriends, Inc. @ HOTC
"Becoming the Woman God Wants Me to Be"
This on-line Study/Accountability Group begins on Monday July, 14th.
The book, "Becoming the Woman God Wants Me to Be" by Donna Partow will be our 90 day guide to living the Proverbs 31 life.
This will be entirely done on-line, using e-encouragements and accountability. If you struggle with your Quiet Time, this is a great place to start! The book has daily pages that take about 10-15 each day (maybe a bit more if you are a slower reader) with Scripture memorization, prayer, practical tips and more.
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hello ladies.
first of all thank you nola for your dedications and thoughts to this bible study!!!!
okay, i will totally agree with her on the last two days. in fact i have been entertainin the idea of doing something from home to help in our financial situation, which is still no better, for a while now. but i will be honest, the current job i have is very demanding mentally and physically and when i get home, just do not have the energy to do much. in fact the only thing i have been doing daly in this study is to read the study daly and drink "lemon water". so i am asking for prayer for God to give me "supernatural energy" to implement some changes in my life even if it means changing jobs. i'll be honest ladies i am tired!!!!!!!! my husband is still not doing well emotionally, physically, and spiritually and i easily get discouraged. I am like on a roller coaster and i see God at work and have faith in "HIM" but my "flesh" is tired and hurting.
also a note to the younger ladies, i encourage you to start now in looking at options of working at home so if and when you decide to start having children, you will be able to be there with them. I have 1 child i daycared and one i was home with for 3 years (bacause i got layed off) and though both are doing well, i can tell the diffence it made in the one i stayed home with. just wanted to share my experience and heart with you "youngins"!!
have a great day ya all!!!
love
missy bialey
Thanks for sharing, Missy. I will keep you in my prayers! And I 10000% agree on the staying home with your kids (if you know me at all, you probably already know that haha).
I have to be honest, though. Today's lesson discouraged me a bit. In the future, I would LOVE to do work from home and generate an income while raising my children. However, I sat at my table this morning and I could not think of anything that I would be able to do. I'm not creative or artistic. I'm not very business-minded and I still don't really know what gifts God has given me. I began to feel like I can't be a good proverbs 31 woman. I have been wrestling with these feelings of worthlessness for the rest of the day.
I know that Satan plants these thoughts in my head to distract me from serving the Lord. I know i am valuable in the Lord's eyes, it is just going to be difficult to not let satan discourage me into thinking otherwise!
sarah,
i too will keep you in my prayers. don't get discouraged, pray and God will show you your talents. The first place would to ask at your current job if anyone there has ever worked from home. but whatever you do, do not let satan have one moment of your time. rest in God and and remember "His plans are to proper you and not harm you and give you hope for a future"
love ya lots, girl!!!!!!
missy
I too felt that I didn't have any talents to do anything from home... and I HATE to sell things... so selling stuff from home wasn't on my list of talents'!!
After my daughter was born (my littlest child) I was praying and asking God what I could do from home. A few days later my shopping cart cover fell apart... I sat there looking at it and realized that I could make those and make it better than the one I had purchased. I wasn't quite sure where this idea came from... but during the months that followed God touched my heart. I would lay awake at night and He would talk to me... telling me how I could do this and giving me ideas. Someone might say that it was just my wheels spinning ... but those that know me know that I sleep at night... I never stay awake once my head hits the pillow... this is how I knew that God was talking to me!
I started my own little business making shopping cart covers a little over a year ago and God has continued to bless our family through this! Although I don't make a lot of money doing it ... it's nice to have the little extra!
So if you want to see how God has blessed our family you can check out our website (which I created on my own...yikes it's not a talent of mine!):
www.SarahsSlippers.com
I pray that the Lord continues to bless my home business and shows me other ways we can all make money so that we can stay home with our children.
Philippians 4:13 says that... I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
May the Lord be with you all today!
Kathleen
Missy, I agree that it's very difficult to work full time and then come home to create or manage a home-based business. It's almost as if you have to begin your married life with a business before having kids!
Working from home has been on my mind for a very long time, but I just haven't had the resources and/or the time to make it a reality.
To complicate matters, my husband has his own business, which has huge ups and downs, so both of us working from home might not be the wisest move.
Connie
Hi ladies,
Eight years ago I felt I needed to contribute financially to our family. After trying to figure it out on my own with options that were just not good for our family, I started to pray. Within 24 hours God blessed me with a buisness opportunity I would have never dreamed of. I have been an Auto Broker for eight years now and have never had to miss anything my children were involved in. I'm home to make dinner (not that I always do) to talk to them when they need me and spend time with my husband even with his crazy schedule. I am very blessed. This is not to say that God bless's everyone in the same way. My point besides giving every bit of glory to God, is that God says when you pray with a right heart, he will give you your hearts desire. Right heart meaning Gods will.
Pray fervently girls, God wants His best for all of us.
T.
I tried to work in business when my kids were small, but it soon took its toll on everyone in the family. I can be hardheaded, and God was trying to show me in so many ways that I needed to be home more with my kids.
I finally dropped back to part-time and found a job at a school. One day, I received a flyer on my desk at my school job, and I felt inspired. It was a flyer to go back to college and get my teaching credential in the subject that I was teaching, educational technology.
Well, here I am, several years later, with a clear teaching credential, doing the job that I love. And my kids didn't have to suffer! The money at first was little, but I loved what I was doing so I began to move up, qualify for better teaching jobs, and move up. The job I have today came from a various set of links which began when I decided to cut back hours and work at the school.
I would get little signs of direction, or my ears would perk up, and if it was God's will, I'd start to see little blessings which encouraged me to continue on that path.
I don't think everyone is meant to work from home, but it's great if you can do it. I did it for awhile but I definitely benefit from being out amongst people. I worked out the hours to be here when I was needed. Now my kids are pretty much grown, but I'm still home on time when my teen daughter gets home from cheer practice.
I love helping young people learn and I wake up in the morning happy to be going to the work that I enjoy. The only other thing that would make me even happier is to do some work with animals. We already have a menagerie here, and I'm not allowed to bring home any more animals. My kids even tell me "no"! That's so funny. Maybe when I retire, it will be time for me to follow that passion.
If you're not doing what God has gifted you to do, and what He has caused you to enjoy in your heart, then you won't find that happiness that He has designed for you.
Blessings! And meaningful work for all.....Missy and Nola, so great to "bump" into you yesterday! We should have a get-together once we finish the study. What do you think?
Hi Ladies,
God's timing is perfect. This lesson came at a perfect time. Lately I have been praying for God to open the door for me to have a home-based business. I know that he has given me the gift of organizing finances so I'm hoping to do bookkeeping on the side but I have a problem "selling myself" because I don't like asking people for money -- which really defeats working from home! But I know if it is His will, He will help me.
In the meantime, know that God has given each of us a gift and like Theresa said, we need to sincerely and expectantly pray for Him to reveal it to us and know that He will.
Kathleen, thank you for sharing your website with us. What a great idea. I'm defintely going to buy one for my neice who just had a baby!
Have a great day ladies and remember to pray expectantly!
Love you,
Mary
Vera...I'd love to "bump" into you again...that was fun.
Kathleen...your shopping cart covers are darling! =)
Everyone...I think I'd cause trouble if I worked from home...haha
This one was interesting for me. Missy I completely agree with you about working fulltime and then coming home and being tired. I do have my own freelance business as a freelance Journalist/organizer but put it on the back burner with my Master's program. I didn't make a lot of money on it but I really enjoyed writing, editing, and the layouts that I would be hired to do. I'm not very talented to create and sell a product but I do LOVE to organize and found that I could include that in my business.
The Lord has blessed me when funds were really low with a redecorating job for a professor where I work. She loved her new office so much that she hires me to do little things and pays me for them.
I love to keep myself busy, but working 40 hours, going to school and then working an additional 20+ hours on my freelance business is hard. Though I feel that without a job for my mother I might have to find a way to bring income in to keep the apartment. This is something that I've been praying on for a long time.
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