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Hello Everyone, Jason Dunbar is back again to share a few of my thoughts. Although I do have a full time job, I have been able to cut out all of the extra hours I was working thanks to my Home Based Internet Business. I am an entrepreneur and I am making money on the Internet, but it is not as easy as I thought it would be. Although I love working from the comfort of my own home, it is a greater challenge than I ever expected it to be.
Let me be more specific. Working from home is very relaxing because I have no distractions, I have no children and I recently relocated to another state where I do not know anyone so my days and nights belong to me. That’s the problem. I have too much time on my hands. I think many people wish they had the same problem.
This may sound crazy, but I have so much time on my hands, that I don’t seem to get too much work done. Where does all of the time go. I need to learn to manage my time, but is there such a thing. Can time be managed? There are only 24 hours in a day, no matter what you need to get done. How doo you manage something that you have no control over? Think about it, how can you possibly manage time?
I have come to the conclusion that you can’t manage time, end of story. But you can manage what you do in the time you have. To some it may sound the same, but it is really totally different. I do not have control over time, but I do have control over what I do in the time I have. I call that a schedule. Working from home and having the freedom of not being on someone else’s schedule is great, but if you are not disciplined enough to follow your own schedule, you are doomed.
Setting a schedule and following it is a must when you are working from home. A To-Do List, a Day Planner or any other means of help with regards to keeping track of your daily activities is very necessary if you want to succeed in a Home Based Business, especially if you are your only employee. Sometimes it is so easy to get caught up in other things that before you know it, half the day has gone by and nothing has been done. Therefore you put of what can be done today, for tomorrow. This vicious cycle begins again the next day and before you know it, the week has gone by and nothing has changed. How many times have you taken a week of from work and did absolutely nothing, until the last two days. I am guilty of that. Actually, I am a repeat offender.
Well, it’s time for me to go. I have been home all day and all I did was sit down and write this little article for my fellow entrepreneurs out there who might be going through the same things I am going through. By the way, the time is 9:47pm. I rest my case.
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Jason Dunbar
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One Comment
One of the most overlooked time management tools for those who work at home is the schedule and calendar.It is much easier to work when you plan ahead what you have to accomplish the next day or week from now.