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a work-family resource for home-based entrepreneurs
@ http://www.en-parent.com
February 28, 2001
Lisa Roberts, Editor:
epideas@en-parent.com
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_______________CONTENTS_______________
- ... The Funny Things EP Kids
Say & Do
... Making Money Matters -- Tai
Chi Youth
... EP Expert Essay -- "Let's
Talk Time: The Best of All Possible Worlds" by
Sarah Edwards
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THE FUNNY THINGS EP KIDS SAY & DO!
Submitted by EPnews Subscriber,
Dianna Huff
(mailto:dhuff@dhcommunications.com):
I was bumbling around the kitchen
as I do at 6:30 a.m. each morning, putting
away dishes, toasting my pre-schooler's waffle, and making coffee.
This
particular morning, however, I wasn't half asleep nor was I in
my normal
state of disheveled jammies and fuzzy slippers. I had an early
client meeting
scheduled and had already showered and dressed. My son knows
my "work"
clothes from my "mom" clothes and as he tread sleepily
into the kitchen, he
asked, "Mom? Did you wake up in your work clothes?"
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Why work at home? So you can hear the funny things your EP Kids
say
throughout the day. Share with the EP Community something your
child said or
did recently that made you smirk, giggle, or LOL. Send your submission
via
e-mail to:epideas@en-parent.com.
And if you need a stockpile of smiles to get
you through your EP day, check out Grace Housholder's heartwarming
"The Funny
Kids Project" at www.funnykids.com. On those stressed-out
EP days, you'll be
glad you did!
Grace's coffee table book is
also available at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0963871536/theentrepreneuri
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MAKING MONEY MATTERS
Being available to your kids
and managing a career under one roof sounds to
many like the best of both worlds, but without pulling in some
kind of income
what's all the effort for? Making Money Matters!
This issue Richard O'Connor,
Executive Director of Tai Chi Youth, Inc. and EP
to two children (Rory, 2 and Caitlin, 10) shares his marketing
tips with us.
His contact info is:
Richard O'Connor
Executive Director
Tai Chi Youth, Inc.
www.taichiyouth.org
taichiyouth@shaolinCom.com
Ph/Fax: 818-293-1616
PO Box 602
Tujunga, CA 91043-0602
(Want to spread the word about
YOUR business in EPnews? Let's hear how YOU
earn your keep as an EP! Mailto:editor@en-parent.com
with the subject heading
"MMM Survey" and we'll get the questionnaire over to
you. Thank you!!)
1. In a 2-3 sentence statement,
explain what your home business is about,
including your target market and "mission statement."
Tai Chi Youth is a nonprofit
education organization specializing in troubled
youth programs that teach yoga, Tai Chi, and Shaolin Kung Fu
to rehabilitate
and cure drug addictions. We have taught in prisons, elementary
schools,
churches, rehabilitation centers, as well as producing tournaments
and
seminars. The Tai Chi Youth Performance Team has been hired by
various
government and Asian organizations to perform traditional martial
art dances,
some of which are over 1,000 years old.
2. What are the most popular products and/or services you sell?
How much do
you sell them for (or what's your hourly rate), and how did you
find the
right price/fee schedule for them?
Our most popular products include
imported Chinese clothing, imported Chinese
weaponry, and our own self-produced CDs and casettes composed
by our founder,
Master Zhen Shen-Lang.
3. What are *your* favorite products and/or services? Why do
you like to sell
them?
Mostly, I enjoy signing up students
for our main Tai Chi Youth programs. That
is where we see students blossom and develop, as well as overcome
physical
and mental obstacles. Some students claim that we have saved
their lives.
4. Tell us a bit about your marketing
campaign. When did you start noticing
your first sales (after which marketing technique), what marketing
efforts
have you noticed yield the greatest results, and how do you make
your first
contact and subsequent sales (via online, phone, fax, mail, face-to-face)?
Most of our contacts and performances
have been arranged by telephone since
our reputation precedes us. We now have a website which we hope
will extend
our reputation further.
5. Any additional comments are welcome.
As Executive Director for Tai
Chi Youth, I enjoy working for an organization
that helps so many people and improves lives.
Thank you for your time and we
hope you reap many more rewards!
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EP EXPERT ESSAY
"Let's Talk Time: The Best
of All Possible Worlds"
© 2001, by Sarah Edwards
author of "The Practical Dreamer's Handbook, Finding the
Time, Money and
Energy to Live the Life You Want to Live"
In the best of all possible worlds,
everyone would have to go to the post
office in person to pick up their mail. It would be no more than
five minutes
away and serve as the hub of the community, where everyday you
would see your
friends and neighbors and colleagues to catch up on the latest
news.
In the best of all possible worlds,
everyone would have a Post Mistress like
Judith who has created such an experience for all of us in the
Pine Mountain
community where I live, so we can enjoy this best of all possible
worlds.
But last week our Post Mistress
died. Suddenly. No one suspected she was ill,
including herself. There was no warning, only a touch of indigestion
on a
Saturday afternoon.
Now, I look out my kitchen window
late at night and I miss her. I see the
moon shining softly between the trees and I wonder...
Did she see the moon one last
time that night?
Did she hear the Winter wind blowing through the pines?
Did she see the moonlight glistening on the snow?
Did she look into her husband's eyes?
Was she grateful that day to be alive?
I know the answer to these questions
is "Yes! Yes!" Because that's who she
was and that's who we are here in our Mountain village -- so
blessed everyday
that we can't take a single one for granted.
Everyday of the week except Sunday,
I saw Judith at the Post Office and I
could never take that for granted, because she was always there
with a smile,
always glad to see me no matter how long the lines or how hectic
the day.
Even if I was just going to my box and didn't have to stop at
the desk, I'd
say "Hello, Judith" and she'd call me by my name, "Hi,
Sarah."
Everyday before leaving, I would
always say "Goodbye, Judith," but I had no
idea the last time I said goodbye would be the last goodbye.
So now, tonight, looking out
the window at the moonlight through the trees, I
feel so grateful, grateful for our little piece of the best of
all possible
worlds and grateful that I got to say,
"Goodbye, Judith."
May her memory be a constant
reminder that in the best of all possible
worlds, we would never take a single encounter with the beauty
and splendor
of life for granted and never let it go unacknowledged, because
it could just
be the last chance to savor that blessing.
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Sarah Edwards is our EP Home Career Selection Expert and the
author of "The
Practical Dreamer's Handbook, Finding the Time, Money and Energy
to Live the
Life You Want to Live." Let's Talk Change is a weekly column.
Sarah wants to
hear about your dreams and the difficulties you're having in
creating them.
E-mail your questions, comments and ideas at www.practicaldreamer.net
and she
may answer or address them in future columns. Sarah and her husband
Paul have
written a dozen books on working from home and self-employment.
They have
over a million books in print. You can read more about them at:
http://en-parent.com/Experts/exp-edwards.htm
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