Conducting business takes on a completely different spin once you become a mother. Children change every aspect of your life, including running your own business. I recall realizing, “Hey, this isn’t about me anymore” in the very first moments of becoming a mom. I had just given birth to my oldest son. I won’t go into the details, but I will give you the overview. He weighed 10 lbs. 9 oz., and my epidural didn’t take effect. Enough said. After he was born he needed the ICU. The entire room–and I do mean the entire room–left with the baby. 

I was lying there–bruised and battered, scared, happy, relieved and totally alone. In those first thirty minutes, I was transformed from “the pregnant Princess” and “It’s all about me” to being “the mom.” 

Being responsible for children is very much like running a business. You serve others. You must have a lot of patience and take lots of action in order to produce a positive outcome. The most successful businesses realize it is not about them– it is about the customer. Sound familiar? You must fall in love with your customers like you do your children. The customers (and extending that out, your children) are the reason you exist.

A servant’s heart is the keystone of a successful business and a successful mom. While it’s great to have a vision of what you ultimately want to achieve, it is the focus on your customers needs, wants and desires that will get you there.

Patience was a tough one for me to learn as a mom. We all know the definition of patience but let’s take a closer look at what the dictionary has to say about it: The quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like. Learning to be patient-and yes it can be learned-is a gift we give as mothers to our children and as entrepreneurs to our employees and customers. Business like raising children is not for the faint of heart.

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