Our long-term projects and their related outcomes often shape up our definition of success. We often believe that we will be successful once we have reached our ‘big picture’ goals. We are working from the dream towards its realisation without giving much credit to what happens in the middle. Work at home mums are busy multi-tasking and juggling family and work commitments, and it is no surprise that we sometimes loose track of the progress we make which brings us closer to the life goals we are targeting.

What is your definition of success? I wouldn’t be surprised if it revolved largely around the completion of your long-term life goals. Work at home mums often have many long-term goals, from a dream home, education for their children, family travel, health and fitness, financial freedom and self-realisation. The important question is this: How is your success measured while you are working towards your goals? While you are in limbo between now and the realisation of your ultimate dream, are you unsuccessful because you aren’t living your dream life yet?

The daily challenges met by work at home mums warrant their very own success rating, regularly and on a short-term basis. What I am stressing here is that progress is just as important. In fact, monitoring your progress as you move towards your greater goals can have a huge positive effect on your journey in 2 ways: 1. It will enable you to measure progressive outcomes and to track your direction towards achieving your targets, and 2. it will be a constant motivator and prevent you from discouragement and quitting. After all, who in their right mind would maintain their actions while feeling that they are not moving towards their goals?

Being successful should not be solely based on the accomplishment of your ultimate goals. The meter does not go from ‘unsuccessful’ to ‘successful’ at once. Success is a journey. While you are pursuing progressive and consistent action towards your long-term goals, you are being successful. Tasks lead to steps, steps to milestones, and milestones to goals and dreams. Work at home mums who follow this progression of actions and who create results towards their goals along the way are being successful.

By periodically asking themselves some questions about their progress, work at home mums can make certain that they are on track, maintain a high level of personal positive reinforcement, and emphasise for themselves that success is a work in progress. Some examples for these questions can be: “What actions did I take today to achieve my next step?”, “What have I learnt recently that will help me align myself towards my goals?”, “How am I tracking on my progress towards my next task/step/milestone/goal/dream?”, “Which tasks I have already achieved which is part of my greater goal?”.

Success is a work in progress. It is a journey. Work at home mums should always remind themselves of this while measuring their success towards creating the life goals and dreams they pursue with such commitment.

Justine Simard is a mum and home business owner helping other mums being successful at working from home around their children, while creating a high income, a better family lifestyle and more freedom. Visit Work At Home Mums to find out how you can join other successful work at home mums and achieve your personal life goals.

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