If you’re moms and dads at home working remotely – possibly home schooling, listen closely! The Covid-19 lockdowns in Sydney NSW Australia, Melbourne VIC and in Auckland, New Zealand are having a shock effect on lifestyle habits!
You have to manage the home, prepare the kids, get home schooling materials ready. Then — start work remotely on your home laptop or PC. But hell, the password is not bloody working. I.T. didn’t set your system up properly? Damn. The children must focus. Concentrate. I know how hard all of that is to manage! I feel for you. Covid 19 is like bio-warfare in the family home!
There’s another layer of hassle, strain and pain. That is financials. Some small businesses have laid off workers. Other managers are doing the right thing: waiting for government wage subsidies. Come on Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern. This is a crisis that we’ve never experienced since the Spanish Flu of 1918. We need income support. We need a clear, standardized curriculum for home schooling. In both Australia and across The Tasman Sea in New Zealand.
But there’s hope. Here at Geoff Dodd’s Business School we have devised a plan of income support for moms and dads at home working remotely. It’s a plan to start a small home based business. You know — the laptop lifestyle! Yahoo! You’re taking a first baby step on the 1,000 mile journey to financial independence!
Reinvent Lifestyle for You Moms and Dads At Home?
Imagine waking up with renewed energy now. It’s 4 a.m. and your mind is bursting with creative ideas. You’ve learned to meditate. You find an affirmation. Embedded in random access memory. You repeat it. You feel a miraculous desire to write!
The stresses of Covid-19 become irrelevant to you. You’re working remotely. You have all the comforts and benefits of a stay at home dad. A work from home mom. Joy breaks out. You discovered the WordPress blogging platform. (Just like this). You saw “7 Eye-Opening Strategies to Skyrocket Affiliate Sales“ and best thing of all? You understood it. One hundred per cent. No question.
Working from home for yourself is heaven. Forget skeptical ideas from the cynics. Cast out their negativity. NO, you’re not being “selfish.” Not at all. You’re miraculously motivated now to serve your nuclear family in the finest, most independent, most free way possible!
In fact, I have a surprisingly rare gift for you. After 54 years of long study of business psychology, I have simplified a solution. You might laugh at the sheer simplicity. You’ll realize the psychological power of this rare gift, after you practice it. Even a little bit. So move forward now, like a shark. Seize the day. Download your PDF e-Book. This one is different. Let me count the ways. 10,000. That’s a key number in the Tao Te Ching. Feeling mystified? (It’s also a significant number in my unusual methodology).
You’ll find that your children naturally use this kind of method. “Mom, I want some M ‘n Ms. Now.” or maybe you’re getting, “Dad, can I have fifty dollars pocket money. I want to go to Luna Park. Now.” If you remember Luna Park in Melbourne. The child will repeat the demand over and over. A hundred times. That’s getting close to my weird “brain changing” method. It’s a missing piece of the jig saw puzzle we need to complete. I mean, to get a successful home based business off the ground.
Mindset For Mom + Dad Working at Home
The most essential factor to have working for you is a positive mindset. Turn every stress, every pressure, every conflict into a positive. Laugh at it. Smile, as you turn, saying, “I’m just curious. Where did that come from? What energy is behind that?” Ergonomics is … “there are three broad domains of ergonomics: physical, cognitive, and organizational. Ref: ergo plus com.
Covid-19 or rather the fear of the coronavirus can sap our energy. But there’s nothing to fear except autonomic imbalance. A.K.A. fear itself. Moms and dads can consciously bring their energies together in the home. Focus your energy in a more intentional way. Write down your goals: long term, medium term, short term, and tasks for the day. Organize your family’s energies. It’ll pay dividends.
So that is our ‘business school’ contribution to Australian and New Zealand families living under the plague of COVID-19 at the moment. You might be in Melbourne 3000 Victoria, or in Sydney 2000 New South Wales. You Aussies have the gut strength to handle this pandemic. Kiwis, likewise. Aucklanders will be feeling the frustrations of a prolonged Level 4 lockdown. Jacinda’s got your back, with her “go HARD, go fast” policy against the delta variant at the moment, in September 2021. I know that’s incredibly frustrating for you. Especially if you are the owner of a small coffee shop, a bakery, a butcher’s shop, or if you are not categorized as “an essential worker.”
Keep your mask on. Scan the QR codes when you visit essential services. Maintain at least two metres between people waiting in queues for the supermarket. We’ll beat this. Aussies and Kiwis together. Echoes of Gallipoli and Dunkirk.
Geoff Dodd, Editor in Chief, Online Course Business School, Waikato, NZ.
