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Controlling Email and Social Media

Working from home oftentimes entails battling many distractions. One of the most common is technology, in particular email and social media. We are often looking for ways to control our use of social media and the overwhelming amount of email we can get. One writer friend recently returned from a vacation and tweeted how she was working through 300 email messages. I know that if I take just one day away from email, it can quickly mount up. Then you feel like you need to catch up on what has happened on Facebook. But I think what we need to … Continue reading →

The Best Way to Use Your Time – Part 3

In my last blog I talked about the importance of valuing your time. In today’s blog I am going to look at the best way to use your time. This is very important when you are running a home-based business. Have you ever given much thought to how you use your time? Do you have set hours when you work? That can be the key to being the most productive. But even for those who have set hours, we can find ourselves drifting off to other things. You know how that goes…throw in a load of laundry in, get dinner … Continue reading →

Value Your Time – Part 2

This is the second part of my series on dealing with time issues in your home-based business. In my last blog, I discussed tackling time-wasters and distractions. In today’s blog, I am going to address the importance of valuing your time. What I mean by this is placing greater importance on how you spend your time instead of trying to be superwoman or superman. I’ll be honest. I am not impressed when someone rattles off how busy they are. My eyes start to glaze over when someone goes on and on about how they never have time for fun, enjoyable … Continue reading →

Is It Time To Adjust Your Work Load?

When you have a home – based business, you are responsible not only for producing the products or services that the business provides but also for the operation of the entire business. It is a lot of responsibility, to be sure, but it also gives you a great deal of freedom to choose how you do business. One major aspect of managing your home – based business is managing your work load. When you have a service – based business (or businesses) like I do, you are responsible for deciding how many of which kind of projects you have on … Continue reading →

My New Business Tool

After what seems like an endless chain of events, my husband and I finally upgraded our cell phones to smartphones. We were going to get iPhones, and we did in fact have iPhones for almost one day. After a little more deliberation (we tend to do a lot of research before we buy things) we chose to go with Android phones. Our new Motorola Droid 4 phones arrived yesterday and I activated mine as soon as I opened the box. It has been active for a little more than a day and it is already proving itself to be an … Continue reading →

Tackling Time-Wasters and Distractions – Part 1

Today I am starting a three part series on time, with today looking at how we can tackle time-wasters and distractions. Let’s face it, sometimes time is just not on our side. But it can also be that we haven’t been making the best use of it. There is nothing I hate worse (but am guilty of indulging in) than things that waste my time and distract me. Not only does it make me ineffective but it causes me to become stressed. That’s because I fall behind on things and then in an effort to make it all up, find … Continue reading →