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This post is a guest post from Mike Reeves-McMillan, who also writes about stress management and other personal development topics at his blog, Living Skillfully.

When you’re juggling a lot of different responsibilities, it’s easy for motivation to slip. You seem to spend your whole day lurching from crisis to crisis, only to come to the end of the day without much of a sense of achievement. What to do?

Here’s a technique which I call two-level goals.

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One business model that has been very popular of late is building niche WordPress blogs, customising them so they look nice, and then adding good content. These blogs can have several methods of monetisation, including adsense income and affiliate products such as those from Clickbank or Amazon. They are then sold with no income or traffic, which gives the creator a quick chunk of cash. But does this still work?

The most popular site for buying and selling websites is Flippa and I have had some success selling websites here. One comment I read recently was that startup sites sell here for an average of $130. That’s not bad considering your costs are basically a domain name ($10), hosting ($5 for a month) and an investment of your time. However, things may be changing.

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Being a stay-at-home parent, as many of you are probably aware, is no picnic. Sure you get to spend all day with your kids and there are certainly benefits, like seeing all their firsts and watching them miraculously grow from crying, feeding, sleeping dependents into actual little people with comprehensible thoughts and emotions.

But the parent who goes off to work each day will probably never understand that while they get breaks and leave their work at the office when they log out, you are on the clock 24/7. And it can be even more difficult if you decide to embark upon a course in homeschooling. Trying to juggle your everyday household duties (cleaning, shopping, errands, food preparation, etc.) with the demands of being a teacher and a parent can sometimes leave you feeling like a sinking ship. But there are ways to swim to the surface, stay afloat, and head for calmer waters.

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I must admit, I’m a fan of Kevin Riley. I like his big smile, and he always looks happy on his videos. Not only that, but his products are good.

Rocket Product Creation was released just prior to Christmas, with the announcement that it would help you earn Christmas cash by creating an info product and selling it online, all within 3 days. It’s now being promoted as a general “how to write a report and sell it” ebook.  Sounds too good to be true? Well, I tried it, and here’s my opinion.

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This post is a guest post by Laurie Neumann, a home business coach from the Christian Home Business Connection.

Many homeschool moms look for ways to earn some extra income and ease the financial burdens of their family.  But homeschool moms are also very busy people.  They are not only homeschooling their children, but running them to different activities plus keeping up the house, the shopping, and a host of other things.  To even think of them adding a job to their schedule is unimaginable for most women.

Well, there is another way!  A home based business can prove to be a such a blessing to the homeschool mom as well as her family.  It allows her to contribute to the family finances and eases some of the stress from her husband.  What woman doesn’t want to do that?

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The idea for this post came from my own two children, who desperately want a Nintendo DS lite. Much to their disgust, I tend not to buy them anything they want. I told them they needed to earn their own money so they can buy it themselves.

My children’s pocket money still has to come out of the family budget, so I’d still be indirectly paying for their gadgets. I suggested to them that they earn the money by writing. Sneaky, aren’t I? I know most homeschooling mums will say that their children don’t like writing, and mine are no different. However, with the thought of a sparkling new DS in front of them, they approached it with gusto, particularly my 9 year old. So, what did they write?

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