Any Regrets for 2008?
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2008 was a good year both personally and professionally.
Today I scan over the last twelve months and ask myself specifically if I have any regrets and honestly, I don’t think I do.
I made deliberate choices that slowed the growth of my business but it was for good reason – my family needed time and attention more than the business did.
I don’t mind looking back at 2008 with awareness that I could have worked more – there will be plenty of time to work in the future but all those sweet baby snuggles I enjoyed on the night shift with my niece’s quadruplets… those were available for such a brief time.
How about you?
We’re work at home moms. We juggle the minutes of our day – choosing to spend them with our kids, our husbands, our friends and extended family – or choosing to spend them working on our businesses. Most of us if we’re open about it will admit that we have built in guilt on a day in day out basis.
We feel guilty when we’re working that we’re not doing something fun with our kids. We feel guilty when we’re giggling with our kids when we could be doing something serious for our business. Add any extra stress or special circumstances and the pressure to make the right choice about your time and attention becomes overwhelming.
The guilt feels real but is it valid? I say no. There is no perfect balance for a WAHM, there are only daily decisions. I refuse to look back on 2008 with conflicted emotions. My business exists to serve my life not the other way around and that is as it should be.
No regrets 
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Leslie Truex is the pajama-clad work-at-home mom dedicated to helping other moms live and work comfortably. She's the author of The Work-At-Home Success Bible and owner of 
Laurie Ayers is a WAHM from Michigan and a Star Director with 
Thanks for sharing Kelly. I made some decisions I’m not happy with but I also know that I’ve learned a thing or two.
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Amen, Sistah! Happiness IS the freedom to make these decisions.
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The only thing I regret is time I may have wasted. I hope to be less fearful and more faith-filled in 09.
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So far, happy with 2008, the only regrets i have is not completing all the things i wanted completed. But i also made the decision to play in between work:)
Thanks for asking kelly!
I have a regret, I wrote about it above.
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Its awesome that you say you deliberately slowed down in business to focus on family. That is why we are in the work at home business in the first place, right?
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I told you about my personal regret last night on twitter. As for business regrets, I wish I hadn’t wasted so much time procrastinating. I am happy with most of my biz decisions though.
I try my hardest to live life without regrets but this past year I have been plagued with two. Personally my biggest regret was to unconsciously alienate the most important person in my life and push him away because I could not open up to him. In business it was to drop everything while I was going through personal issues and spending a whole year without any activity. I did learn A LOT this past year and WILL NOT make the same mistakes twice.
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What I regret is trying to do too many things at one time and stretching myself too thin sometimes. Should fully concentrate on 1 task at a time.. .. last procastination and be focus on tasks.
something I should do for 2009
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So validating to read this…thank you. That balance between working at home and spending time with kids is a struggle for me. I keep telling the kiddos that we have a good thing going, but because it’s all they know so they don’t always get it of course. NO REGRETS for pursuing my passions and being there for my kids!
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