A lot of people wonder what it would be like to run a company on a day-to-day basis.  I spoke with Mary Beth Wells of the Precious Baby Doll Company about how her days look and how she keeps the faith as an entrepreneur and small business owner.

I began by asking Mary Beth how she continued to grow her company and develop her product on a daily basis.  Here's what she had to say.

It does not come over night.  You have to be patient.  I'm a single mother to two little girls.  You really have to structure your day.  You really have to have a period that, "This is when I'm going to work on Twitter.  This is the time that I'm going to generate leads via email."  You have to structure it.  You have to know how much time you can allocate to your business.  Do you need an additional income?  Do you need a part-time job?  You can do it.  You just have to be time-savvy and say, "Okay, this is going to have to come at night, after the kids are in bed."

You know, I get the kids to school and to daycare.  I come home.  My office is in my home.  I get orders out.  I'm sending emails out.  Before I know it, I look at my clock, and it's time to go get the kids from school, make dinner, bath time.  It's the world of a mom, especially a single mom, where you're doing it all.  I say, "The dog needs a bath?  Oh, I'll do that in my sleep," because there's no more time left in the day!  You do what you can to keep your company growing, to keep your family in tact and happy and nurtured, and it's a balancing act, but it's good.  You can find your place, find your niche, making all of this stuff happen.

And, you're right.  That's a lesson I learned the hard way.  Your days don't have to be 8-to-5.  They don't have to look like they did when you worked for someone else.  You can structure your day however you want, and if you're focused on results and not on busy-work, you can get a lot of rocks moved in a relatively short amount of time, and it's not always easy.

I was just going to say that!  There are days that you wake up and you just want to shut the alarm clock off.  I've had those days.  You have days where orders don't come in, and you just have to say, "Just put one foot in front of the other.  I'll make this happen.  I can do this."  You have to be positive, or you can tear down what you want to build before you even start to build it.

Absolutely, you have to believe in your vision and in yourself.  More often than not, it's not an easy hike, but you can get it done somehow.

Sometimes you don't know how you're going to get through it, but you just have to say, "Let go.  Let God."  Just know.  Just believe in yourself.