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April 23, 2007

How To Pace Yourself with Your Home Business Work

When you work from home it is very easy to work your tail off, literally. You might find that since you are working from home, there is simply no set time where your work is finished. You might feel as though since you are at home, the project that you weren’t able to complete during the day can be completed later at night. It might be very tempting to continue working long into the night because you simply don’t have to come home from work, you are already there.

On the other hand, it might be very tempting to not work very much on certain days. You might feel as though since you are working from home, you can go ahead and take whatever breaks you feel like taking, and if you don’t want to work in the morning or work all day long, you don’t have to.

Either way, you are going to run into some problems. First of all, you are going to find that if you work all of the time you are taking away from your home and from your family. You might also find that if you fail to work when you are supposed to, you aren’t going to meet deadlines, and your business is going to suffer.

No matter which of these problems you have, there is one clear solution, and that is to pace yourself. You need to take direction for yourself, but you also need to actually set goals and expectations for yourself, even if you are the only employee.

There are several good ways to do this. The first thing you can do is set a timetable for when you are going to work and when you aren’t. Set actual office hours, and stick to them, even if it is only a few hours a day. You can make this easier by also scheduling yourself time to do other things. Leave one afternoon free for running errands, and another one free for cleaning your house. If you schedule yourself completely, you’ll find that you can more easily stick to your schedule. Remember that the most important things you can do in order to pace yourself include writing down when assignments and projects are due, and then making a chart of work days to allow yourself plenty of time to complete them. This is the most important thing, because if you allow yourself plenty of time to complete everything, you’ll find that you are much more able to actually get the work done that is allotted to you, and your home business is going to be even more of a success. The most important key to pacing yourself is having good time management skills, and being able to implement them in a home business setting.

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About the Author:
Sheila enjoys working part-time from home. She also enjoys sponsoring and mentoring others, and helping them find success with their work from home base business. Click here to contact Sheila and learn how you can start a work at home-base business.

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