What Does Being A Stay At Home Mom And Being A Stay At Home Content Creator Have In Common?

The thing that being a stay at home mom and being a content creator have in common is…I love doing both.

But was it always this way? Did I come out of the gate loving my role as a stay at home mom? If it weren’t for my position as a stay at home mom would I have ever taken on the role of web content creator? Hmmmm.

If you really break down the roles of both the stay at home mom and the stay at home web content creator you actually can see how one compliments the other.

What? You don’t want to go through the hassle of breaking down the important qualities of each? Well, that’s what I’m here for. All you have to do is keep reading.

Discipline

Stay At Home Mom - When you take on the roll of stay at home mom you essentially become the person that runs the household. Your job doesn’t just consist of entertaining your child throughout the day. No, no, no…get that right out of your head.

Discipline is the key to making it in this business. Think of it, you don’t have someone monitoring what you are getting done in a day. You don’t have someone giving you heat because you’re falling behind your schedule.

On the other side of the coin, you don’t have someone giving you constant constructive feedback about your performance. You don’t get reviews or raises to let you know that you are doing a good job. The only thing you have is your discipline baby!

Being a disciplined stay at home mom is what gets you through those days when you just don’t want to do anything and you know that there is no one else there to tell you to do it anyway.

Content Creator - You may have a deadline…but that’s it. Usually a content creator is left to their own accord. They are responsible for making sure that they put in the needed time which will ensure them meeting their deadline.

Ultimately you are your own boss. No one is going to tell you to stop reading your favorite blog and get writing. It is your own discipline or lack there of that will make or break you in this business. Believe that.

Achieving Discipline In Both Areas - Let me be the first to say that if you are not a disciplined person…you CAN become one. I’m living proof of that. If you were to have seen my stay at home schedule mom daily schedule even one year ago compared to what it is now, you wouldn’t think you were looking at the same person.

Finding discipline in one area of your life can have a profound effect on all other areas. Start with one thing. Take one piece of what you do and become very disciplined with it. This could be doing a load of laundry per day, making sure your sink is empty each night, or sitting down to write a blog post every single day.

Once you have that one area on a disciplined schedule…add another thing and then another thing and then another. Before you know it you have disciplined every aspect of your life and you will be able to stay on track no matter what area of your life you are working on.

Communication

Stay At Home Mom - What good would it be if you were to come up with these disciplined processes in your home if you cannot effectively communicate it to the other members of your household? Well, it would be no good and it would leave you doing a lot of extra work and becoming burnt out and disgruntled. We all know what happens when people become disgruntled…not pretty.

To avoid a disgruntled postal worker scenario a stay at home mom needs to learn how to best communicate to her family members how and why a process is in place. She also needs to communicate to them their roles in this process and how their lack of participation in this process will effect it as a whole.

If you think this sounds crazy then you should read my monthly newsletters that are printed out and hand delivered to my family members…that’s no joke. By communicating to everyone in the home exactly how and why things are going to run a certain way you providing structure and…that’s right, discipline to your home.

Content Creator - Well, this almost goes without saying but a good content creator needs to posses excellent written communication skills. What is the main reason for that? You want people to get the gist of what you are writing. Simply put, you need for your ideas to easily come across in your writing.

Another reason that a content creator needs good communication skills is so that they can always be on the same page with their client. Our job is communication, it’s not the job of all the clients you will be working for and so we need to take on the role as the communicator.

It is up to the content creator to make sure that they know exactly what the client is looking for in terms of their content. It’s also up to the content creator to make sure that each party understands what the other is responsible for. You don’t want any surprises when it comes time for payment.

Being An Effective Communicator In Both Roles- More than likely if you are a content creator, you are going to find that it is your written communication skills that are the strongest of all your communication skills. Take advantage of that fact.

Put everything in writing. I know it sounds a little odd to be writing out processes for your family to follow but it is effective. You’re going to be able to give them a step by step guide to follow about how you want things done and you are also providing them with something to refer back to so they can’t use the excuse “I forgot how”.

The same goes for your role as content creator. A lot of times you may be dealing with people who don’t have a true understanding about what is involved in creating content. Let them know. Explain in writing your processes that you follow, what is expected from them, etc.

Everyone will be better off because of your effective communication skills.

Patience

This topic doesn’t need to be split into the different roles that you have because having overall patience is what will make you successful in any area of your life.

There are going to be days that no matter how disciplined you are and how well you are communicating with others…you’re not going to get to all of the things that you need to.

There are going to be days that every time you begin what you are trying to do the phone rings, someone calls out mom, the doorbell dongs, the pet needs to be let out, the school bus pulls up, someone fell and scraped their knee, someone is running a fever, someone needs a ride somewhere, or someone just needs a little TLC.

On those days the only thing you can rely on is your patience. It’s what’s going to get you through.