Time management can be very difficult for people who work from home. It is easy to get distracted, to get caught up working on things around the house, or to let interruptions get to you.

One way of improving your time management skills are to keep a timelog If you keep a timelog for a week, you’ll find many ways you can improve yourself. I’ve done this a couple of times in a past and have always found it useful. I’ll be doing it again shortly.

Here is a very good post on how and why to run a timelog:

http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/11/19/why-you-need-to-run-a-timelog-and-how-to-do-it/

Here is the original source post:

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/11/do-you-run-timelog.html

Danny

Here is a very good article about how to stay motivated and productive. For most everyone in a home business this can be a challenge and this article provides some wonderful tips.

As you’ll see if you read my comment in its comments section, I have a few problems with point #4, but the other 9 are gems!

http://freelanceswitch.com/freelancing-essentials/10-lessons-every-successful-freelancer-has-learned/

Enjoy
Danny

Most people who have a home business do not have a business plan. Even the people who have a business plan often don’t have an active business plan. These people may have created a business plan when they started their business but likely haven’t looked at it for a long time.

An active business plan is a plan of attack that you can work from on a daily basis. To do this you need to have an overarching business plan. You should develop the overarching business plan and then review it AT LEAST once each year, perhaps two or three times a year.

From your overarching business plan you should be able to plan your week and from your weekly plan you should be able to plan daily.

This also clarifies your planning time. You should spend about one day twice per year focusing on updating your active business plan. This should be in a private location where you can think, reflect and not be interrupted. Then you can spend about one hour each week planning the upcoming week, and lastly spend about 10 minutes each day planning the following day. Keep focused on the activities you have planned in your overarching business plan.

This should keep you on track!

Danny