The Fairy Jobmother: An Alternative Solution

Hayley Taylor, AKA The Fairy Jobmother, is a recruitment specialist and helps to get people who are out of work back into the employment system. Many of the people she works with have been out of work and living on benefits for a while and generally find it very hard to find a job, often not through lack of trying.

Are you sick of looking for a job and getting nowhere?

If you are in this situation, there is an alternative solution for you. You don’t have to rely on an employer giving you a chance to change your circumstances.

Ever thought of learning how to use the internet to create an income?

For more info on how to get started with making money online, CLICK HERE

Natalie Buhagiar

Why do you want to make money from the internet?

I know this may sound like a daft question because if you can make money online, why would you not want to?!! But you would be surprised with how many people just can’t be bothered!! If you think about it, most people have a 9-5 job and the last thing they want to do after having grafted all day is to come home and…do more work!! It’s much more tempting chilling out with a nice cup of tea (or glass of wine or pint of beer) on the sofa letting their brain veg to mindless soaps. (Nothing wrong with soaps by the way. Those who know me will know that I NEVER miss an episode of Corry!!)

So there needs to be some kind of motivation to make you bothered to do it. There has to be a reason why you would swap “vegging out time” with “more work time”.

I know my reason. I currently have a very good, well-paid job. In fact I am the main bread-winner in my house hold, earning almost double what my partner does. This puts me in a bit of a pickle as the female in the relationship. When we decide to start a family in the next 18 months or so, we would not be able to afford me leaving work and living on just my partner’s income. So the only solution would be for my boyfriend to leave work and be a full time dad while I go back to work. That to me is not a solution!!! So my “reason” is to create enough of an income online so that neither of us will need to work and we can have the freedom and the lifestyle to watch our children grow without worrying about the finances or missing out on major developments in our kids’ lives.

Interestingly, I spent the day in Northampton yesterday at an internet marketing training day and I met two separate people who both had told me that they had experienced redundancy more than once! The reason that they started learning internet marketing and got involved in a work from home business was so that they would never have to be in that situation again where they could be told that they no longer had a job.

People each have their own reasons why they want to learn how to create an income online. I am sure that as you are reading this, you have your own reason. Otherwise you probably wouldn’t have come across me and wouldn’t be reading this!

The good news is that it really isn’t all that time consuming. Once you have learnt the basics and spent a bit of time setting everything up, you can build your online income in just 30-60 minutes a day! And if that time interferes with your soaps, just sky+ them and watch them later! That’s what I do!!

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Thanks for reading!

Natalie Buhagiar

How The Kings Speech Can Help You Find The Right Mentor

The Kings Speech - Why Mentoring Is Important

Have you seen The King’s Speech yet? If not, it’s a “must see” film. I had been wanting to see it since it came out but as my boyfriend doesn’t like going to the cinema, I waited until it came out on DVD, and boy was it worth the wait.

 

Now I don’t know what your take is on personal mentoring or coaching; some people think that it is a total waste of time and money.  To be honest, so did I until I got one. I was 23 when I sought my first mentor. In fact what I was seeking was a vocal coach. But what I got was a mentor. (This will become clearer as I move on)

 

I have always loved singing since I was a toddler! I was always singing…in the car, in the shower, at karaoke. So at the age of 23 I decided to take it a bit more seriously and get myself some singing lessons. That’s when I came across Greg.

 

Now, as I was looking for a vocal coach, I did think to myself, “What is the point of singing lessons? Either you can sing or you can’t, surely!” How wrong I was. Greg taught me so many new techniques that strengthened my voice, widened my vocal range and even widened the styles of music I would sing, from pop right across to opera! Soon I was hitting notes I didn’t even know existed!

 

But that was just the “mechanical” stuff; the stuff on the surface. What Greg really did for me was delve much deeper into me; find out who I was as a person, and he encouraged me to take my singing places I would never have imagined possible. Within a few weeks of having lessons with him, I had bought my own PA system, recorded a demo and soon after that was gigging in pubs and clubs!! 

 

During this time, I stepped out of many comfort zones and into many areas of ‘unknown’…and to be honest, I was petrified! But Greg was my support. He helped me become the person I had always dreamt of being but never thought I could be. This is what I mean when I say I was seeking a teacher but got a mentor. I also got a very good friend.

 

So…back to The King’s Speech.  Bertie (King George VI) has a speech impediment and has tried lots of “doctors”, none of which can fix him. He is disheartened, frustrated, and has given up. The problem is, they were all trying to fix him ‘mechanically’.

 

Until he meets Lionel Logue. Lionel is just like my Greg.

 

Lionel gets to know Bertie. He understands him and gets under his skin, deep within to find out the root of the problem. He got Bertie to open up about his past, his fears, what makes him happy and sad. He treated him as an individual rather than another patient.

Did you know that 95% of the contributing factors towards whether we succeed or fail are down to mind-set? Only 5% is skill or knowledge. Bertie knew how to speak, he just didn’t have the right mental tools to physically do it properly.  Same with me and my singing. I knew how to sing, but Greg brought out a confidence within me to go for those higher notes rather than shy away from them. It was still my sound… my voice… that hit those notes. But it was Greg’s mentoring that allowed me to reach deep within and go for it! A good mentor will understand his students and develop them on a personal level.

 

Lionel also made sure that Bertie was in a very relaxed, informal environment. Despite him being Royalty, Lionel insisted that he could call him by his familiar name of Bertie rather than “Your Royal Highness Sir” as Bertie had requested. Over time, Bertie began to trust Lionel and felt that he could be relaxed with him. This is when the recovery process really started.

 

The moral of the story is that you must feel that you can work with your mentor; that you are on the same wave length. They are going to be your support, your confidant, and your guide while you are building your online business. You will go to them for advice, seek reassurance from them when you are lacking confidence in your ability and excitedly report back to them with your success stories. You will want to make them proud. And eventually they will become your friend. You have to be able to trust them. So choose wisely. Be sure to pick someone you can work with and someone who’s values you agree with.

 

So as I was watching The King’s Speech, I was relating it so much back to me, and totally seeing Greg in Lionel’s character.

 

I met Greg 8 years ago and even though I no longer see him for vocal coaching session, we are still good friends.

 

More recently, I went seeking a mentor to help me in my online internet marketing ventures. And I am lucky enough to say that he offers me the same level of support in my business as Greg did with my singing.

 

I think until you have had a mentor (and by this I mean a good mentor) you can never really appreciate the true value of having one.

Natalie Buhagiar

Are you ready for a real work at home business?

Are you ready for a real work at home business?

So, you have taken the decision that you want to look for a real work at home business.  What do you do next?  Here are some tips to help you think through what it is that you are actually looking for in a real work at home business.

It is important to consider what it is that you are looking for. Are you looking to work solely from home or would you like to work mainly from home but have no objections to going out and for example meeting potential customers?

With either choice, you also need to consider whether you want to work online (complete all the work on a computer) or offline (work that doesn’t involve using a PC).  If you want to work online for example designing websites or setting up an online business, do you have the skills to do this already or do you need some training to be able to do an online real work at home business? If you want to work offline, for example putting letters into envelopes, do you have the room in your home to do this?  If you are having to make deliveries to customers, do you have the necessary transport to facilitate this?

You also need to take the time to think about planning your working day.  How many hours a day do you have to fit a real work from home business in to?  Working out which hours you have free and at what times will help you decide whether you want to work online or offline or a mixture of the two.

Once you have thought through these basic steps, then you are ready to start looking for that real work at home business opportunity.  Always keep in mind what it is that you want to do and then look for a job or opportunity that fits in with your criteria and your life!

For more information and useful tips on how to get started in your own home business, head to my site.

Natalie Buhagiar