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Family Matters Can be Combined with Business

July 6th, 2008

My family is now grown and on their own so I don’t have much involvement with coaching their teams at this point in time. I do, however, take time to participate in some family activities. If you are lucky enough to have children at home, you will be able to help them grow through your involvement. Coaching a team or simply helping at a sports day can be extremely rewarding and you meet many other parents doing the same thing. They will get to know you as someone that pitches in and also as someone that is involved in your children’s life. When my kids were younger, they played baseball. I went to every game and the unusual thing was that they were the only girls on the hardball team. The parents I met were amazed at these two girls playing against the boys. As a result I got to know more people and eventually did some business with them. My girls only played the one year but they had a lot of fun and so did I.

Even family interests change as my children’s interest in playing baseball. They moved on to other things such as swimming and we had just as much fun there. Swim meets, baseball games, soccer matches are all good places to have fun and make people realize that you are involved with your family. Work may be important but keeping the balance is best. If you put business first, then your family will suffer. Even though I keep an open eye for potential business at all times, I certainly do not focus on it everywhere I go. I am simply prepared in case it comes up. I have met some great business people through family events

How many activities have you participated in this week? You have planned at least ten that are business specific. Make sure that you also plan to have a family activity every day. It does not mean that you go out and do something; it can mean that you stay home and help with homework or just play a game.

Bette Daoust, Ph.D. is a speaker, author (over 170 books, articles, and publications), and consultant. She has provided marketing, sales, business development and training expertise for companies such as Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Varian Medical Systems, Accenture, Avaya, Cisco Systems to name a few. Dr. Daoust has also done extensive work with small businesses in developing their marketing, training, and operational plans. You may contact Dr. Daoust at http://BizMechanix.com. You may also view her latest publications at http://BlueprintBooks.com. Dr. Daoust also writes for the National Networker http://theNationalNetworker.com.

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