A Schedule for Your Home Business
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Take time in your busy routine for your WAHM business.
Before kids, before becoming a work at home mom, I had a set schedule for my work in the office. I got up, worked out, dressed and off to work. At work it was check email, process orders, greet my students and set them to work. Etc.
You get the idea. I had a schedule.
Then I became a stay at home mom and I still had a schedule. Get up and dressed etc. Get baby and take care of him/her (I’m a foster mom). Lay him down for nap and take care of home details. Etc.
Still on schedule. You know babies like that.
Then I became a work at home mom. Trying to managing a home business and a home. I would try and write an article while feeding the baby. Then I would be busy updating my site, get sidetracked and veer off to browse the internet because I was so unfocused. I was scattered and this pattern set me up to accomplish very little in a very long amount of time.
I had no schedule. I fit the work in when I could.
I needed a schedule. And I needed it on paper. Not that I was generally a disorganized person but in my home and work at home life I had quickly become unorganized.
So I sat down and looked at my regular home, no work, schedule and noted places where I could be focus on just the business. Baby down for nap? Maybe 15 minutes because I would use the majority of that baby nap time to clean up the house. Then at the end of the day before I went to bed.
Those were two spots that worked for me. The evening would give me a definite amount of time because I like to go to bed early so no chance of working into the wee hours of the morning.
Now I get much more done because I can focus and I’m not sidetracked by wanting or needing to do something else.
Her’s how scheduling your work at home day can help you too.
Scheduling your work will help you to…
1. Maximize your work time to accomplish the goals you have for you business.
2. Focus on what you should be doing at the time instead of becoming sidetracked and getting very little done.
3. Help you to close the doors on your business at the end of the work day so that you can focus on your family or hobby or another part of your life that is not all about work.
