How Can I Manage a Home Based Business, Kids, and a Life?
Sep 28th, 2008 | By SistaWAHMs | Category: Bypass Procrastination and Not Being Productive, Lead Article
Damn-it! It’s already 10:00 pm and nothing for my home based business has been done today. I woke up at 7:00 am to start working yet other tasks have been getting in the way all day.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner had to be cooked. The kids had to be cleaned and fed. The house had to be cleaned and the laundry had to be washed, folded, and put away. The groceries and cleaning supplies also had to be picked up at the store today.
On top of that, my home phone and cell phone kept ringing off the hook with friends and family calling to talk about how their day was going.
My back and feet are killing me from the days labor and I can hardly see myself getting on the computer to do anything at this hour. Looks like I’m just going to take a bath and to go to bed. Maybe tomorrow I can find more time for my home based business (sigh).
Are your days so full of the things that you need to do that you can’t find time for what you want to do?
Almost everyone wants or needs more money coming in and with this desire would like to start some extra income producing project.
The trouble is, you’re not able to squeeze “a second job” into your hectic time schedule.
It’s true that you’re busy, but extra time for some sort of home based business can almost always be found.
It may mean giving up or changing a few of your favorite pastimes– such as talking on the phone or watching TV– but if you score big with your extra income project, you will have all the time you need to do whatever you want to do.
How do you run an internet home based business and manage time effectively?
- Practice efficient time management.
Efficient time management boils down to planning what you’re going to do, and then doing it without backtracking.
Start by making a list of the things you want to do tomorrow each evening before you go to bed.
Schedule your trips to work or wherever to coincide with the other things you have to do, and take care of as many things as possible while you’re out of the house.
- Stay conscious of your time, even the time you spend on the telephone– and eliminate all that isn’t necessary.
Whatever chores you have to do at home, set aside a specific amount of time to devote to them. Don’t try to do a week’s work in one big flurry. Do a part of it, or one particular job each day, and you’ll be amazed at your progress.
- Carry out your plans. Once you start listing and planning what to do, be sure to carry out those plans.
You’ll find plenty of “extra time” for handling virtually any kind of home based income producing project.
You may not like routines or schedules, but without some sort of plan as to what is supposed to be done, there is no way to reach your desired outcome.
In our previous post we discuss the importance of starting with your outcome in mind first in order to reach your goals for your home based business.
When you really become involved in an extra income producing endeavor, you should work it exactly as you have organized your regular day-to-day activities– on a time basis.
Remember these tips to effectively run your internet home based business and manage your time:
- Do what has to be done immediately.
- Don’t try to get done in a hour something that’s realistically going to take a week.
- Plan out on paper what you have to do, what you want to do, and when you are going to do it.
- Then get right on each project without procrastination.
Above all else, when you’re organizing your time and your business, be sure to set aside some time for relaxation. Schedule time when you and your spouse or kids can be together.
You must not involve yourself to an extent that you exclude other people, particularly your loved ones from your life.
Financially successful people are simply organized and do not waste time. Getting to an organized and simplified point in your life so that you can be financially successful is what it’s all about. Here you will discover the simple science of getting what you want.
If you want or need more money coming in then take your desire, get organized so you can better manage your time and start some sort of extra income producing project.

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