So, we’re almost half way through this year! Time flies! How are you going with the goals you set for working your home business in the New Year? Have you achieved what you intended to achieve? Did you start in January full of good intentions and aspirations, but find ‘real life’ got in the way and your home business fell by the wayside? It’s so easy to lose your way when you work from home. You cn get distracted by things happening around you and suddenly you realise tht you have just put your business down and lost any impetus you had!
In order to achieve the results we all want from our business, we really need to touch our business everyday. No, I’m not saying you cannot ever have a holiday, or a couple of days break, but early on in your home business, if you just keep disappearing for days on end, your business will suffer. I know, because I did it! Because I had never worked from home before, I would let little things stop me from working and then think ‘oh well its time to make dinner now, I can’t work now’! and so on. Almost any excuse would keep me away.
Then I realised that everytime I stopped working for a few days, I stopped generating leads for my business. And I didn’t like that! So now I always do something. Even If I can only spare half an hour, I will do something towards getting my name out there on the internet. I can get up a bit earlier in the morning or I can stay up a bit later at night. I can miss that television programme that I usually watch! And even if I am away from home, I can brainstorm ideas for future articles or videos!
So don’t let your life or your children stop you from building your home based business. Make your family the reason WHY you do this business, not an excuse for not doing it! If you think of it from that point of view, it makes it easier to give up some time to your work. Think about the future, and what this business can give you. It can time you time and money freedom to ensure you have a wonderful family life! It can give you a great, comfortable future!
If you have let your home business slide, now is the time to pull out the stops and re-committ to putting in the effort. Make a pact with yourself that you put a certain number of hours into your business each week. Try making a new plan of what you want to achieve in the next six months, then work out what you would have to do each week to achieve that goal.
Make it into a big colourful chart and put it up where you work, so you can see clearly what you are meant to be doing each week, or each day. That way you won’t be sitting in front of your computer thinking ‘what should I be doing?’
Decide that even if you may have let the first half of the year slip by, you will grab the rest of the year by the short and curlies and work it!!
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So are you reaching your goals? Please leave me a comment and let me know, I would love to hear from you!!
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I realised that everytime I stopped working for a few days, I stopped generating leads for my business. And I didn’t like that! So now I always do something. Even If I can only spare half an hour, I will do something towards getting my name out there on the internet.
First and Foremost, I would like to say that having goals is imperative to your success at ANYTHING in life. Next, although working at home maybe be convenient, I think it is a lot more difficult than working away from home in an office. As you said, there are tons of distractions at home and that familiar sense of comfort. In the office setting away from home, you are in a more fast paced business environment with lots of stimuli. Personally i'd opt for both but if I had to choose one I'd go with an office AWAY from home.
Hi Dewane,
Yes I think I would agree with you, that would be the best option, an office away from home. It took me several months to realise how much time I was losing with all the distractions at home and organise my day more like an office day!
Thanks for your comments.
Sue
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