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Do You Feel Like You’re Stealing Time From Your Business?

Time management is a topic that comes up again and again here in the Home Business blog. After all, most of us are juggling work, business, family, and all sorts of other obligations and keeping everything in order is a very big challenge. While many people might feel like they do not have enough time for their families or other non-work-related responsibilities, there may be others of us who feel like we are short-changing our home businesses and guiltily stealing time away that we should be spending on building and operating our business enterprises. What sort of things might steal … Continue reading →

Creating Uninterrupted Time for Your Business

Multi-tasking is the name of the game for those of us who are raising families and operating our own home businesses. It is quite typical for us to have several things going on at once–an they are not necessarily compatible things. Even though multi-tasking might be typical, it is still important to carve out some uninterrupted time to focus and concentrate on tasks that need to be done. Some home business owners get up a couple hours earlier or stay up an hour or two late at night in order to have some uninterrupted time to work on business tasks. … Continue reading →

Making The Work-At-Home Environment Work For You

One of the major differences between working at home and working outside of the home is the environment. This can be a blessing or a curse, depending upon who you are and what makes you feel happy and be productive. The good news is that while you cannot usually make casual Friday into casual every day when you work outside of the home, you can sometimes recreate the things that you love about working outside of the home in your home-based work life. For some people, working at home is a dream come true. Once they make the transition to … Continue reading →

Do You Have What it Takes to Work From Home?

I meet a lot of women lately that are interested in starting a home-based business. The reasons are many: time home with the children, flexible hours, or following an interest. When I’m asked if I enjoy working from home, I emphatically answer YES. I do love it. I enjoy the fact that I can sit at my computer in my pajamas at eight AM, noon, eight PM or even sometime in the early morning hours when the night owls are even in bed. I can work on a variety of projects that make me smile. I enjoy doing something that … Continue reading →

Are You Working Too Fast?

We have talked about procrastination and how some of us wrestle with putting things off and trying to find the time to get things done in our home businesses, but we have not really talked about the fact that some people have just the opposite problem—they have a tendency to rush through things and try to get too much done. For those of us who actually work too fast, we can run into business difficulties when we are speeding through our tasks and contacts. The problem with working too fast is that details can get overlooked, mistakes can get made, … Continue reading →