Home School Marketplace: Your Home School and Home Business Resource Center

My friend Susan is a home schooling Mom and she is very concerned about her children's health. Her son, Liam is allergic to almost every chemical known to man, so Susan has to be very, very careful what she allows him to play with. When he gets together with other children and they play with Play Doh, Liam can't play. The dyes and chemicals in the dough can not only make him very sick, they might kill him.

To read the story of how Susan solved Liam's problem and how you can benefit from what she did, GO HERE>>

Be a part of our Home Business Incubator!

At Home School Marketplace we are not just about home schooling. We also want to encourage and support you in developing home centered income.

One of the ways we want to do this is by providing you with the opportunity for involvement in businesses that we and other home schooling families develop.

So for years we have thought about creating a home business incubator that home schooling families can participate in.

What is a Business Incubator?

What is a business incubator? A business incubator is a collection of resources designed to help businesses become established and sustainable.

We want to create businesses that allow home schooling families to participate in their development and share in their future profits.

If you would like to participate in one of our Business Incubators, please GO HERE NOW>>>

CLICK HERE to listen to a teleconference explaining the concept and our vision for a Home School Business Incubator.

Home Business Resources

Let Your Mortgage Make You Rich. A friend in my internet marketing group discovered this technique for paying down your mortgage incredibly quickly without making an extra payment or refinancing. Using her method, people are cutting a 30 year mortgage down to eight or nine years. It’s true; without extra payments or refinancing – you could save tens of thousands of dollars - even hundreds of thousands - on what you pay for your home. And the best part is that the book comes with a money-back guarantee. If you don't save more on your mortgage than the book costs in the first 18 months of using the techniques, you'll get your money back.
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If you missed one of our From Home School to Home Business Conferences, you missed a great time.People who have attended tell us that it changed their lives—not only in the area of home schooling, but also in the area of creating their own sources of home income.This set is huge and filled with useful and encouraging information about how to be successful at home schooling and at home business! Find out more about this life-changing set of CDs HERE>>

Building the Business of Your Dreams (8 CD Set) I've had requests for just the business portion of the From Home School to Home Business Seminar, so have developed a set of the business CDs from that set. It contains 8 CDs and includes sessions on The Entrepreneurial Mind, Multiple Streams of Home Income, Discovering Your Ideal Life and Ideal Business (2 CDs) , Developing a Business Plan (2 CDs), and The Importance of Business Relationships. Plus, there is a very important and insightful interview on Redeeming the Marketplace. Find out about this life-changing set of CDs HERE>>

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We have the following WIN books available: The Reluctant Writer, Comprehensive Story Writing, Writing Man 1 & 2, and WIN Twin.

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What do ADHD and 8 Gold Medals Have in Common?

“In an event in which he was supposed to be pushed, he had no peers. In a race in which there was to be stress, he became the picture of relaxation, so at odds with the feat he accomplished. With President Bush, the first lady and former president George H.W. Bush in the stands waving American flags, Phelps won the 400-meter individual medley at the National Aquatics Center in a world record time of 4 minutes 3.84 seconds — crushing his old world mark, winning an Olympic gold medal and likely sending chills through the rest of the competitors on hand, many of whom could succumb to Phelps in similar fashion later in the meet.” www.washingtonpost.com

Hyperfocus

Michael Phelps is described in countless articles as having laser-like focus on his swimming and single mindedness on being the best. His concentration has even been described as “other-worldly.”

Those who know the qualities of ADD & ADHD understand his source of "other-worldly" concentration. It is called hyperfocus.

So many things can enter an Olympic swimmer's mind to throw them off their stroke - little things - let alone the awareness that the President of the United States is right there watching you, or that you could be about to win the most gold medals in a row ever, or that your goggles filled with water and you had to finish one of your events blind.

While extraordinary, Michael Phelps' super-human ability to focus during an event is actually one of the gifts of ADHD - the ability to trigger laser-like focus in an instant and hold that focus to accomplish the most amazing things.

The typical understanding of ADHD is that those who have it can’t focus and concentrate. But that’s not entirely true, it is just that these kids are focusing on other things – random thoughts that pass through their heads, the bird singing outside, the itch of a bug bite.

However, when someone with ADHD starts hyperfocusing on something they have a high level of interest in, that hyperfocus become a benefit.

How to Trigger Hyperfocus

Is there a way to channel this hyperfocus towards a specific result? The frustrated parent of a child with ADHD may ask, “I know my child with ADHD can focus for hours on his Nintendo games, but how can I get him to focus on his homework?!"

The answer is PASSION or THREAT.

Hyperfocus can only be effectively directed by passion or threat.

Michael Phelps is gifted for two reasons: He has ADHD and he found his passion in swimming. The combination of ADD (or ADHD) and your true passion for something results in an amazing ability to focus, persevere and triumph through all odds to fulfill your passion.

Hyperfocus can also be directed by pressure, stress, fear, or threat. In several interviews, Michael Phelps and his mother have described how, as a child, Michael was tormented and bullied by the other children and considered incapable of accomplishing anything important by his teachers.

Michael learned to use the threats and insults to fuel his passion to win. Even today, he is using criticism and insults to fuel his drive to win. In many Olympic interviews, Michael explained how remarks the French team made about “smashing” the Americans only increased his determination to win. And win, he did. He wound up “smashing” the French in one race after another.

However, that same pressure, stress and fear does not help a person with ADD or ADHD hyperfocus in areas in which they have no interest.

People with ADHD who have found their passion can be the best at anything they set their minds to, or, if not the best, better than most. When they combine hyperfocus with what they have an interest in or a talent for, they can do amazing things that defy all logic. Michael Phelps is the latest proof.

Having the president watching, the first lady and the former President too, is enough to overwhelm most people. Add to that pressure the fact that you are on live TV with millions of people all over the world watching. And add even more pressure with the knowledge that not only your teammates, but the whole world is expecting you to prove that you can win. Most people would collapse under that much pressure, but for someone with ADHD who is living their passion, such pressure is simply more stimulation – it is like natural Ritalin.

So, if you have a child with ADD or ADHD, watch for areas of passion, areas of hyperfocus. Feed those interests and provide opportunities for expression in those areas. There is no telling what your child can accomplish. And the frustration of ADHD may actually become a blessing.

Congratulations Michael and a special thank you from everyone with ADHD!

GO HERE for helpful information about ADHD.