Mastering the Mompreneur's Daily grind

Organization as a recipe for success in self-employment

To do justice to your role as a mother and successful entrepreneur, we recommend that you organize yourself well from the very beginning. Here are a few tips on how to optimally organize your mompreneur life and how to maintain your work-life balance.

• Home-based Businesses
• Time Management
• Set realistic goals
• Separate the two roles
• Be self-confident
  

How to run your business from home

Um eine Harmonie zwischen Arbeit und Familie sowie Freizeit zu erzeugen, setzen viele MTo achieve a balance between work and family and leisure, many mompreneurs rely on home-based businesses. They run their business from home and work from home.

Of course, self-employment in a home office is not suitable for every mother. You have to decide which is the right path for you based on your situation. Not every product or service can be offered from home, of course. For example, you can sell your homemade DIY instructions or baby clothes conveniently from your home office via an online shop. However, setting up your own daycare center at your home is difficult. Even for a marketing agency, you will need your own office sooner or later.

In any case, we recommend that you have a clear and structured organization in place to manage your time.

Tip: It's worth deciding on the domicile of your company before you set up your business, to avoid having to change domicile later.

Create a weekly plan

As a mompreneur, you are a very busy woman. After all, you run your own business and have a few mom duties to fulfill. So you don't want to miss an appointment with your most important supplier, leave your daughter standing in the rain after kindergarten, or forget your son's presentation.

That's why it's important to have your time management under control and to create a weekly schedule. This is where you enter all your important appointments and have an overview of what's coming up. Make sure that you don't fill your plan with unnecessary details so that you can maintain an overview.

Whether you keep your weekly schedule digitally or on paper is entirely up to you and your preferences.

Set yourself realistic goals

To be able to celebrate small successes and not put yourself under enormous pressure, you should set yourself challenging but, above all, realistic goals. Not every newly founded company experiences rapid growth from the outset, which is why you should also be happy about small steps forward.

However, by setting goals, you ensure that your company continues to develop. As you achieve your goals, you can set new, challenging goals that you believe you can achieve.

Such goals could include, for example, the number of products or services sold or the development of a new product. It is important that you set your own personal goals while also keeping pace with competitors.

Separate your life as a mother from your life as an entrepreneur

Nicht Not all mompreneurs separate their two roles. This also depends heavily on your personal preferences and the activities of your company. Some companies thrive on the creativity and ideas that originate from conversations and discussions with family and friends. For example, the manager of a daycare center or the DIY artist can bring more to the company from the role of a mother than the owner of a marketing agency.

Nevertheless, no matter what business you run, you should consciously separate working hours from family or mom time. This way, you can always focus on what is most important at the moment. Otherwise, you run the risk of completely mixing up the two roles and working 24/7.

Even if there are times when your business or family takes up more time than usual, you can consciously set aside moments by clearly separating and scheduling your time.

Find your own identity and be self-confident

Find your own identity and be self-confident. During the preparation phase, you have already been able to get to know yourself better through self-analysis. You know where your strengths and weaknesses lie. Now think about who you are: What are your values? What drives you? What do you want?

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Don't let your fears drive you, but be self-confident about yourself and your abilities. It's good to think outside the box. All entrepreneurs are different and it is their uniqueness that sets them apart.

In reference to Grichnik's “Entrepreneurial Living - Unternimm dein Leben”

Since you are obliged to pay EO contributions, you will also receive maternity benefit as a self-employed person. This covers 80% of the income subject to AHV contributions in the 12 months prior to the birth and can be claimed for a maximum of 14 weeks. This means that you enjoy the same maternity protection as an employed person.

The prerequisite for this is that you were insured with the AHV during your pregnancy and were gainfully employed as a self-employed or employed person for at least five months of that time. In addition, you should be self-employed at the time of the birth.