A Personal Update & Plan

June 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment

This morning I released a personal update.

 

Stay At Home CEO was launched about a month before we discovered we are pregnant with our third child.

This threw me and my dreams for SAHceo for a loop.

 

I still have a heart for supporting private solutions for public problems, but I also know the time commitment of a newborn, no matter if it is human or business.

 

This update is titled Would you like to Change Your World?

A question I ask myself and others from time to time, but have come to some conclusions.

My main focus outside caregiver for my family is now:
1. develop relationships
2. learn more
3. do things that can help private solutions for public problem

This means mostly working on JonathanNation.com and AllyNaiton.com, but from time to time I intend to add more to Stay At Home CEO, or talk about other content specifically for Stay At Home Moms & Stay At Home Dads who have a dream of some business.

I can say, I have had to think deeply about what it really means to be a Stay At Home CEO & how it can work.

I hope you will connect with me outside of SAHceo, you can learn more & find places at JonathanNation.com

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Community Question – Change for 2012?

January 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment

The past month was amazing, with traveling basically three of the four weeks in December (counting the nearly five day long party at our house one week). Now I’ve had a few days to recover and really focus on 2012.

The question for you is of changes, already made and working on.

What steps have you taken to made 2012 differant from the past?

If you need ideas, you can see 5 simple ideas that can change your life, or Starting Cube 61 How to Get Things Done.

One more recomendation – in the last month I read the book Great By Choice by Jim Collins. If you are looking for one great book on how to achieve your dreams, I strongly recomend it.

 

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Community Question – Exercising?

December 15, 2011 by 1 Comment

This morning I am sore. Yesterday I managed to go for a run/walk, next year I plan on doing a Warrior Dash. Looking back at the past year I realize how hard it’s been to do any exercise, thus the question for now:

How do you keep in shape as a Stay At Home Parent, especially though exercise?

I’ve thought about picking up a system like TRX that would allow for some quick reps, and understand that we have two live 20lb weights that will keep getting heavier.

Have you found anything to work for you?

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Attention Economy

December 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Generating one crappy post a day is a pretty easy thing to do. Generating one decent post a day can also be done, but takes a little more effort; something I might or might not have in between taking care of kids. I understand the importance of consistently generating new content on websites, but there has been a battle inside of me that Seth Godin really explained very well today in a post titled Getting serious about the attention economy

Everyone lives busy lives. From late November through mid January it seems that roughly 12 hours a day are eliminated from my schedule … magically. This has caused me to fight the urge to release something every day, just to have something new.

I know deep down that it would be the ideal, but I am also looking at my capacities to produce & know that there are roughly 10 unfinished articles, and at least 5 episodes of StartingCube ready to be worked on.

I’m taking the path of focusing on quality and minimum releases –  you should too.

Here is something Seth says in that post, slightly altered for Stay At Home Dads & Moms:

If someone stood in front of your [house] and lit $100 bills from your [wallet] on fire, you’d call the cops. But people … waste the attention of their peers and your customers/prospects at the drop of a hat.

Every interaction comes with a cost.

I think about this with my posts on Google +, Facebook, Twitter, and other online communities I am involved with, too.  It’s why I limit the number of links in articles.

The less words we say, the less posts we release, the less media can cause each to have more impact. The other side of it is that you do have to be consistent enough to get noticed in the first place.

Have you fought for the attention of your children? Does this same balancing act apply with the word “No”?

What have you done to balance the fight between a minimum amount of communication and keeping the attention of your audience? Your audience could be customers, friends, family, children, your spouse, or another community.

[ image originally by D Sharon Pruitt ]

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Community Question – Best Travel Tips?

December 5, 2011 by 5 Comments

We just spent a week traveling with twin 13 month olds. There were many memories made & captured … and some rough lessons learned.

Before we left several people gave us good advice & we learned some stuff while being away from home. My understanding is that as children grow the rules of thumb also change, so for today:

What are your best tips for traveling as a family?

You can link to articles that have been helpful or post your own comment.

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Traveling with Twins

December 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment

This week we are traveling, meeting up with some grandparents. It’s a good time to break away and work on dreaming, then planning.

There have been great moments, challenges, and lessons learned. The biggest phrase that comes to mind is if you try to do too much; too fast, it often ends with less than desired results.

I keep trying to think about that as I am trying to focus on resting, investing(planning), and good consumption.

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Jonathan’s Process for Success – Reflect, Thank; Dream, Plan

November 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment

My family has this process that we started the fall after my wife and I were first married. It stems from my frustration of Thanksgiving being overlooked & disdain for New Years Resolutions. Currently I am calling it Reflect, Thank; Dream, Plan.

Reflect

The first step is to look back on the past year, or longer, and see where you have come from. What all has happened?

Having twin one year olds this Thanksgiving, I can say that the year went by fast. We both have much to be thankful for, especially the growth in our babies and each other — both as individuals, as a couple, and family.

Thank

This part is simple, but important – be thankful & speak to people what you are thankful for. As a general practice I am trying to be encouraging more in the day to day, but there are still some specific people who have had an impact that I try to go out of my way to thank.

Dream

This moves from the past & present side to the future. Dreaming what the next year or longer should be. Currently I am thinking about a model based on relationships for viewing your world, so:
- Yourself – physical, mental, spiritual, capabilities
- Family – the special relationships around you
- Business – if you are an employee – you are a business hiring out your services to your employer. If you own or desire to one one, then you have a slightly different relationship
- Society – other people who are not in your business, or family.

So, what are the dreams for those four big areas? What about the subparts? Can you paint a picture that you are aiming for?

Plan

The practical steps you intend to take to make your dreams reality. Before you fully make plans you need to make goals. Goals are important because they are the measuring stick of how well your plans do, but doing the important work to write out the steps you are going to take to make the dream a reality is also vital.

My family is in the middle. We talked about reflecting and thanks recently. This week my wife and I will talk about our dreams for the next year – thinking in those four big fields. If you can have one dream for each & work on just four things over the course of a year – it will be amazing, as long as you take the steps of really making a good goal and then a plan.

What do you do to both reflect on the past & prepare for the future?

Originally Posted on Jonathan’s personal site.

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Holiday Times

November 28, 2011 by Leave a Comment

There is a period of time from before Thanksgiving to after the New Year that seems to be the most busy & disrupted time of the year.

One of the big things I’ve found being a stay at home dad is that having a combination of routines and flexibility in taking care of kids is necessary. Being an entrepreneur, business owner, and coach, has shown that the same applies to building businesses.

Many times I’ve boxed myself into a production schedule so ridged that I was barley making deadlines with very little room for the unexpected.

I am trying to do better.

With SAHceo, I am striving to look at the long run. Going day by day & keeping in mind that being a stay at home dad for twin one year olds takes a lot of time. In addition to that I still have to take care of myself, my wife, and my coaching clients.

Over the next month and a half expect mostly articles focused on core and basic elements.

There are many articles that are in the works & a few additional in the que. As I have them done I’ll release new stuff. Beyond original stuff, there will be more posts focused on great stuff that others have submitted, or I have found.

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Happy Thanksgiving from the SAHceo Family

November 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment

We want to wish you a happy and joyful thanksgiving. We have much that we are thankful for & try to focus on where we have gone in the past year leading into and through thanksgiving. Then we focus on the future after it is over.

If for some reason you have issues finding what to be thankful for, we recommend this post by our good friend Thomas titled Not “for what” … but “how” are you thankful?

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Greatness – Podcast Answer Man presents Proven Strategies For Generating Serious Income

November 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Cliff Ravenscraft has done great work at educating individuals how to create great audio based podcasts.

The video above (or you can listen to just the audio below) is Cliff presenting at BlogWorld 2011. He is full of energy, he loves helping others & shares great insights into what has worked for him and what he is looking at in the future.

 

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What is one thing that Cliff said or did that will cause you to do something different?

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