However, not all of you can do this. So what are your options.

1. You could work part time. Cut down your hours, so you can spend time with children.

2. Hire someone to watch children during summer, put them in a daycare, or send them to a day camp or camp setting.

3. Rearrange your work schedule. This is most popular. For those that can, they just re-arrange their day. They start work later in day and work into evening so they can spend daylight hours with children.

4. Another option, if you and your spouse work together out of home, you can alternate days when each of you take care of children.

Be creative. You've dealt with these issues when you worked in corporate America. You managed then, you can manage now.

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Energy. We only have so much energy to use in a day. We try to schedule our high energy activities for morning, for us this works best. You may find you work better in afternoon.

Our typical day starts about 6-6:30 a.m. and we end up usually about 9 p.m. No, we are not working all this time. We always try to have some down time during day. We truly love what we're doing, so honestly, day still doesn't seen long enough at times.

We'll schedule consultations for morning when we're fresh. We may prospect or visit potential houses in afternoon; and after dinner, we'll do letters, get mailings ready, bookkeeping or paper work. There's a reason for this schedule, our energy is highest in morning, lowest in late afternoon. We look at our evening time as something we can do without a lot of thought being necessary. Whatever we do, we guard our energy very carefully.

Time, Knowledge, Energy. Your three most valuable resources. Use them wisely.

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