For 2008, I resolve to keep my workload manageable within 5 hours of working time per day to continually improve the quality time I spend with my husband and daughter.

Thinking about my own New Year’s Business Resolution, I asked other entrepreneurs (who are also moms) what resolutions they made.

Here is what they said…

Jen Singer, MommaSaid, LLC
MommaSaid is the umbrella organization for Jen Singer’s writing and consulting business, which includes MommaSaid.net, a Forbes Best of the Web community for moms, a blog on parenting tweens for GoodHousekeeping.com called Good Grief!, several books, including the April 08 release of “You’re a Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren’t So Bad Either)” (Sourcebooks) and several spokespersonships, including the Similac Moms Alliance and Huggies Pull-Ups.
I pledge to use my brand new home office (with a door!) to better compartmentalize my working hours from the mayhem that is my life as a mother. In other words, I’m going to shut my office door and put out a sign that reads, “Shhhh! Mom is writing.” When my office was in the middle of the basement (and about three dozen toys), I couldn’t do that.

Robin Gorman Newman, LoveCoach.com

New Years Business Resolution: (2-3 sentences tops) focus. Focus focus. To identify key projects that have consistently topped my to do list and see them to fruition. Multi task with a mission.

Judy Safern, LeadingThinkers PR
Judy Safern is President of LeadingThinkers PR, a full service agency specializing in publicity campaigns to promote authors, experts and consumer technologies. She lives in Dallas, TX with her husband and two preschoolers.
I resolve this year to keep strictly to my office hours and PLAY with my kids when they’re home instead of plugging them into The Backyardigans or Little Einsteins so I can sneak away to “just check” email. No more! I will work my professed schedule of 8:30-2:30 and break while they’re home from school, getting back to my desk at 9 p.m. for another 2 hours. I tell everyone these are my office hours, but too often I allow work to creep into the family time. I resolve to do better by my kids this year.

Heather Allard, President of 2 Virtues Inc and The Mogul Mom
My name is Heather Allard and I’m a Rhode Island mother of three (Hope, 7, Grace, 4 and Brendan, 1) and the President of 2 Virtues Inc, the infant sleepwear company I started in 2004. I recently hung out a new shingle called The Mogul Mom and now advise mompreneurs through a consulting program and forthcoming series of eBooks.
My New Year’s resolution for work/life is to act more like my husband. By that I mean I will:
1. Dress nicely each day in an “at-home friendly” outfit of well-cut jeans and a fitted crewneck sweater.
2. End my workday at a set time instead of working around the clock.
3. Not put myself last on the list of family members—I will eat breakfast & shower daily, dammit!
4. Workout three times a week even if it means putting the baby in his playpen while I do squats, lunges and crunches.

Alexis Martin Neely, Family Wealth Planning Institute
I’m a single mom of 2 kids (Kaia, 8 and Noah, 4), the owner of a law firm in Redondo Beach, CA and the founder of the Family Wealth Planning Institute, a company that is revolutionizing the practice of law by teaching lawyers how to work with families who want to build their Family Wealth at each generation and leave the world a better place. www.FamilyWealthMatters.com.
My new year’s resolution this year is to ask for and accept more help. I’ve finally come to terms with the fact that I can’t do everything all myself and accepted there’s no shame in having a housekeeper, a nanny, and a personal assistant. By having all that support, I can grow my business, be really present with my kids and not feel constantly torn in a million different directions — only a couple hundred thousand!

DeAnne Merey, DeAnne Merey Public Relations
DeAnne Merey Public Relations is a public relations firm in New York City (DM-PR.com)
Hire a sitter and attend two business related functions a week and take my son with me to all events that are strictly social.

Jeanne Hurlbert, PhD, Optinet Resources, LLC
We help women entrepreneurs build the networks that take them to the top—and help them survive the ride.
I resolve to heed the advice I give my clients: To use my network to build my business and to link work and family more effectively. As my daughter turns 6, I feel keenly the dual pressures of achieving my financial goals and making the most of my precious time with her. So, I will use the business side of my network to generate referrals and enter new target markets; on the personal side, I will trade play dates and trips to dance class, advice and hand-me-downs with the moms who make it all so much fun.

Megan Licursi, PR practitioner
My resolution is two-fold: To grow my retainer business (and rid myself of the year-end stress to make my projected revenue numbers) while finding a better balance of work-home life. I hope it’s as easy to accomplish as it is succinct to write it out!

Alicia Rockmore, Buttoned Up, Inc.
Buttoned Up Inc, an organizational products company dedicated to helping busy women get more done by showing them how to organize less. The company has offices in both Ann Arbor, MI and Tarrytown, NY. I am also the mother to six year old, Lucy.
My New Year’s business resolution is to learn to delegate more both at work and in my personal life. This is one of the tenants of Buttoned Up and I know I can learn to delegate more to those who work for Buttoned Up. Our great Buttoned Up team can do more and as our company continues it exponential growth, I must let go of things and let them do more. I can also delegate more at home so that the free time I do have is about spending time and enjoying my husband, Adam, Lucy and our friends and extended family. For example, I can delegate more errands and Lucy items (e.g. taking her shoe shopping) to our great Nanny, Lisa and I can order groceries on line to save having to go grocery shopping on the weekends.

Beth Butler, Boca Beth Program
I am the founder of the Boca Beth Program located in Tampa, Florida. We help parents and teachers introduce Spanish and English to children ages birth - eight with music and movement fun via our CDs, DVDs, musical shakers, puppets and activity books.
I am raising my own three children to be bilingual, and they are all at varying degrees of bilingualism. My resolution this 2008 New Year is to speak Spanish every day in our home with a passion and true drive to help us all achieve fluency in both Spanish and English. This will allow all of us to succeed in our very global society while increasing my children’s literacy skills along with raising their standardized test scores as recent research has shown.

Kim DeYoung, Metromom.com & Metromom Direct Sales Association
I am the founder of Metromom.com and The Metromom Direct Sales Association. I will officially be launching my site mid-January. The Metromom Direct Sales Association is an member’s-based online community for women working in direct sales businesses to receive training, promote themselves and connect with like-minded women.
My resolution for 2008 is to get the ball rolling on a book I am writing called The Art of Connection. I also plan to introduce the Metromom Connection Circle to my community to provide them with my business matchmaking skills to further enhance their professional lives.

What is YOUR New Year’s Business Resolution?