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 started, check your email, see what’s going on in the world of Facebook, and so on. Using your time productively means focusing on what is at hand.
I am great at tackling several things at once. While that can come in handy, it’s not generally a good practice when you are working.
Sometimes what I have to do is think…if I were working outside the home, in an office, would I do some of the things I am doing? No, I would make better use of my time. That’s because I would have someone watching over me.
But even though I don’t have the same accountability as someone who works outside the home, I should act as if I do. I feel more professional when I approach my work in a professional manner. That means designating work hours and sticking to them.
Is this easy? For some people it is. For others it can be more of a challenge. What it really comes down to is finding the best way to use your time.
So you may need to schedule not only your work hours but times for checking email, looking at Facebook, doing some chores around the house and so on. It’s not that those things shouldn’t be done. It’s that you should schedule them in.
I am going to spend time this weekend putting together a workable schedule. I am going to find a way to set hours for working and for those other activities that can wait. I believe it will be a great motivator to have this printed off in black and white, right in front of me.
What ideas do you have for making the best use of your time?
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