Book Review - The ParentPreneur Edge - Parenting Teaches Business Skills
Ask any parent and they'll tell you: parenting is the hardest job you'll ever love.
Owning and operating a business is a close contender for 2nd place.
Parents, particularly moms, worry constantly that their roles as parents will usurp their ability to properly run a home business.
They fear that placing their family first means that their business somehow isn't 'important enough.
' Julie Lenzer Kirk speaks to this complex directly in The ParentPreneur Edge.
Once you read it, your fears will be put to rest forever.
Kirk distills mountains of experience into lessons that resonate with any ParentPreneur.
Her thesis? Owning a business, like parenting, is one of the toughest jobs you'll ever love too.
According to Kirk, "What most people don't realize is that the right business is also one of the best way to take control of your life.
" Kirk has it on good authority.
An award-winning entrepreneur herself, she is passionate about mentoring other entrepreneurs.
She is a business owner, author, international speaker, community activist AND a mother of two.
She is also on the faculty of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Kirk coined the term "ParentPreneur" as a moniker that gets to meat of the matter.
Her book prescribes the winning formula for anyone considering starting their own business or taking an existing business to the next level all while keeping an eye on the ball for a balanced lifestyle.
While there is no one perfect manual to teach entrepreneurship, Kirk opines that experience is a great teacher if we are aware enough to watch and learn.
There are 5 key traits that successful parents and entrepreneurs must have in spades: resourcefulness, perseverance, patience, passion and vision.
Parenting and entrepreneurship share other traits in common too.
For instance, both look toward the future and building a legacy.
Despite this powerful resume of job experience, many would-be ParentPreneurs are 'afraid to pull the trigger,' says Kirk.
"The number one challenge for women is fear of failure.
But so what if you fail.
Ask yourself what the worst that can happen, then plan for it.
" One way to prepare is studying the cash flows of competitors so that a newcomer can work from a base of realistic expectations.
The importance of planning cannot be stressed enough.
Any parent with a child in diapers learns that very early.
There is yet another thing that works well in both fields: the need for a 'time-out.
' Taking a step away from a family dilemma or business problem brings prospective.
It can sometimes be most beneficial to get away from the heat in the kitchen to reflect and re-energize.
Who knew our on-the-job-training as parents translated to real on-the-job training? That knowledge should help any woman get over a fear of failure.
For further home study, The ParentPreneur Edge is highly recommended.
Parenting teaches business skills.
Give yourself a 'time-out' to reflect on that.
Owning and operating a business is a close contender for 2nd place.
Parents, particularly moms, worry constantly that their roles as parents will usurp their ability to properly run a home business.
They fear that placing their family first means that their business somehow isn't 'important enough.
' Julie Lenzer Kirk speaks to this complex directly in The ParentPreneur Edge.
Once you read it, your fears will be put to rest forever.
Kirk distills mountains of experience into lessons that resonate with any ParentPreneur.
Her thesis? Owning a business, like parenting, is one of the toughest jobs you'll ever love too.
According to Kirk, "What most people don't realize is that the right business is also one of the best way to take control of your life.
" Kirk has it on good authority.
An award-winning entrepreneur herself, she is passionate about mentoring other entrepreneurs.
She is a business owner, author, international speaker, community activist AND a mother of two.
She is also on the faculty of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Kirk coined the term "ParentPreneur" as a moniker that gets to meat of the matter.
Her book prescribes the winning formula for anyone considering starting their own business or taking an existing business to the next level all while keeping an eye on the ball for a balanced lifestyle.
While there is no one perfect manual to teach entrepreneurship, Kirk opines that experience is a great teacher if we are aware enough to watch and learn.
There are 5 key traits that successful parents and entrepreneurs must have in spades: resourcefulness, perseverance, patience, passion and vision.
Parenting and entrepreneurship share other traits in common too.
For instance, both look toward the future and building a legacy.
Despite this powerful resume of job experience, many would-be ParentPreneurs are 'afraid to pull the trigger,' says Kirk.
"The number one challenge for women is fear of failure.
But so what if you fail.
Ask yourself what the worst that can happen, then plan for it.
" One way to prepare is studying the cash flows of competitors so that a newcomer can work from a base of realistic expectations.
The importance of planning cannot be stressed enough.
Any parent with a child in diapers learns that very early.
There is yet another thing that works well in both fields: the need for a 'time-out.
' Taking a step away from a family dilemma or business problem brings prospective.
It can sometimes be most beneficial to get away from the heat in the kitchen to reflect and re-energize.
Who knew our on-the-job-training as parents translated to real on-the-job training? That knowledge should help any woman get over a fear of failure.
For further home study, The ParentPreneur Edge is highly recommended.
Parenting teaches business skills.
Give yourself a 'time-out' to reflect on that.
