Sometimes pushing harder is easier than giving up. That’s what I was thinking as was whining in my head about the last push through my jog this morning. My calves where screaming, my shins felt like splinters, and (more…)

Keyword and search engines for blogs and websites
Search engine rankings are mostly about content. How well do you write? How genuine are you? Do you stay on topic and avoid unnecessary ramblings? So, why are these important? (more…)

How to do business with compassion
There are many companies that pride themselves in doing business with a heart. These companies strive to make helping their community through their business a priority. We even see corporations like Target doing what they can (well, I’m sure they could do more) to help the community-they donate quite a bit of money to help the community they are in. This gesture of Target has always (more…)

Some women love flowers from their spouse, but give me gas any day!

Today I woke-up thinking it was 5am, and started getting ready for the busy day ahead: take kids to school, drive 2 hours to San Diego for a Networking event, drive back, pick-up kids, email, phone calls, etc. I had about 1 1/2 hours before the kids needed to get up and so I took my time. And then my husband comes in and states there isn’t anything for the kids lunches. “That’s fine,” I say, “I’ll run out now and be back before 6:30.” He looked at me oddly and said, “But, it’s 6:45 now.” (more…)

Before the kid’s Winter Break from school, Nirzhar and I started jogging and working out together every weekday - then we took a 2 week hiatus while the kids were home - and today was our first day back into the routine. I have to say, I really missed our morning workouts. When you work together, there is no “Bye, Honey, have a great day at work,” because you are at work - together - at home! I even felt that our work suffered this lack of ‘teamwork’ (more…)

Yesterday, both of our boys woke-up with the stomach bug. This was not the most convenient time to have to take time-off to take care of them both:
-Nirzhar was trying to finish several websites
-I had a class to teach, meet a potential client, and return phone calls/emails
And to top it off, (more…)

Yes! It’s Friday, the last day of Winter Vacation for our kids! Having your children home from school for long periods of time can be stressful for the entrepreneur parent and boring for the vacationers. Here’s how we recently handled the 2 week vacation:
-First, relax…I thought of these past two weeks as a mini vacation in which I took some days off to be with my children fully. Anxiety levels can raise as emails and voice mails start to pile-up as work days are shorter, so to calm these feelings I let our clients know that we would be having shortened work days and certain days off to spend with family.
-Second, there’s still work to be done! One of my favorite rituals (more…)

The Family Dinner: it doesn’t have to be around a drive-thru, and it doesn’t have to be a thing of the past. When Nirzhar and I started to get really busy with our business, the “Family Dinner” was the first thing to go: we’d wonder out of our home office, look at each other exhausted and hungry and our children would ask, “What’s for dinner?”
To say the least, it was the last (more…)

Hello World! Happy New Year :: 2008! Welcome to the first post of “Family of Entrepreneurs” Blog! In this blog we will discuss balancing family and your business, evolving family in your business, working together as a couple, and all the other issues that come up with having a business and a family. We hope you enjoy it, participate in it, and spread the word!