5 Reasons Why You Need A Work-At-Home Schedule
One of many attractions of working at home is the vision of freedom it invokes — no time clock, no time sheets, and no one to account to for how you use your time. Yes, it is an attractive proposition, but like so many attractive propositions there is a heavy downside — you are likely wasting a lot of time.
I would spend time every day driving 30 minutes to work. Staying in an office 8-12 hours a day, filling out these large spreadsheets and filing folders. I worked for a large real estate company and worked on a variety of projects for different clients. What I was doing was boring and seemed to be a waste of time — that is until my home business recently took off and I realized there simply wasn’t enough hours in the day to accomplish all my goals.
I now have my own spread sheet and agenda for the day and I have improved my productivity and reduced my stress immeasurably. If you don’t think you need a schedule for your home business then think again — and read on.
Following a spate of relatively unproductive days when my “To Do” list seemed to grow exponentially every time I looked at it I knew something needed to change.
Granted I was going through a difficult patch. My home business was experiencing growing pains and using up more than the usual time, my seven-year-old was only in preschool part-time at the time I started and I had bills that were piling up. These are simply the problems I was dealing with that year. The following year these problems will be traded in for new fresh ones.
After studying my time and chatting with some other work-at-home folks, I discovered five reasons to embrace the schedule:
1. It’s too very easy to waste time doing non priority tasks
2. It’s too easy to get sidetracked or distracted from your current task
3. Unscheduled work time can frequently overlap into your spare time until you don’t have any free time at all
4. Your free time can overlap into your work time until you fall behind with important projects
5. Concentrating your time and energy on highest priority projects means more gets done
I’m not the only work at home business person encompassing the schedule. I recently took part in an online forum where men and women had transferred to embrace it — and found it more freeing than restrictive. After all, you are still the one setting the schedule so you are free to schedule yourself off for a 3-hour lunch, an afternoon, or a whole day whenever you choose.
If you find it difficult putting together your schedule and priorities during the day and week then perhaps your spouse or a friend can help you set your schedule.
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