Summertime Scheduling

It's the end of Summer. The kids have been home for awhile and you realize that you've lost a good amount of time this Summer from your business. How do you avoid this happening next year or during the various school year breaks? Read on!

Let's say it's the middle of June and depending upon the area of the country you are in, the kids are now out of school. You still have a business to run, and now the added chore of watching and keeping the children entertained. If you are really lucky, you take these months off. Yeah, right - dream on is the response from our many readers.

Sorry folks, but some people do work that way. They work extra hours during the school year so they can spend the summers with their children. This is particularly easy to do if you your business revolves around Real Estate, specifically Lease Purchasing as ours does.

However, not all of you can do this. So what are your options.

1. You could work part time. Cut down your hours, so you can spend time with the children.

2. Hire someone to watch the children during the summer, put them in a daycare, or send them to a day camp or camp setting.

3. Rearrange your work schedule. This is the most popular. For those that can, they just re-arrange their day. They start work later in the day and work into the evening so they can spend the daylight hours with the children.

4. Another option, if you and your spouse work together out of the home, you can alternate days when each of you take care of the children.

Be creative. You've dealt with these issues when you worked in corporate America. You managed then, you can manage now.

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