Planning and Organized Thinking
When entrepreneurs who have started their own home-based business hear about how important planning and organizing is, they often think they already knows what this means. Unfortunately, they often think this means just that little corner office in the home needs to be neat, clean and well-structured. This is true, but isn't broad enough or big picture thinking.
Taking advantage of any home based business opportunities will mean a slight shift, in many ways, to your home, you life and your way of thinking and planning. You have to treat things just as you would if you still had to go to an office job, but with the luxury and relief of knowing you’re not. Going to work meant getting in a different mind frame, working a certain schedule for a set amount of hours and keeping things in an order that made sense and could enable you to succeed. Guess what, no difference here. Except now you are working for yourself, will enjoy what you do more and will see more rewards both financially and personally.
Home Work
The first thing you will want to do is evaluate your office situation. Is it free from distractions? If not, could it be? This just means making sure friends, family neighbors, whomever understands that just because you are home does not mean you are doing something less than work. Make sure your car being in the driveway doesn't encourage the next door neighbor to pop by and hang out all day preventing you from working your “job.” Devise a system that lets others know when your office hours are and to try to keep distractions to a minimum.
Also, make sure you actually have a home office. It can be difficult and distracting to share a home office in a room that serves another function. If someone will be coming in to do laundry or exercising in the same space, it can be difficult to take it seriously, even for yourself. And yes, of course, keep it organized, neat and tidy. Every successful business person is organized “from the inside out.” Set yourself up to think, act like and be a success.
Daily Routine
Part of being able to work for yourself is having some freedom to set your own schedule, but that does still mean having a schedule. Maybe part of why you wanted to be your own boss was so you could take those kickboxing classes your work schedule interfered with, and that's great. So set your schedule around that, but set a schedule. One possible way of handling this might mean Tuesday and Thursday your work day ends at 3:00, but then on Monday and Wednesday you work until 6:00 without exception. And by all means, set that alarm. Get in the habit of still starting the day at a decent hour and putting in a full day’s work.
Bonus Tip
One of the easiest and most valuable tips we learned from Eben Pagan was to work for 50-minute blocked intervals and stretch or move around for 10-minutes in between “work blocks”
In All you do…Play YOUR Best Game !
Alex and Tera
Mindset and Internet Business Coaches
