5 reasons why you need a work-at-home schedule because one of the attractions of working at home is the vision of freedom it invokes.
There’s no time clock to punch in and out and no one to account to for how you spend your time.
Yes, it is living the dream, but there is a heavy downside, you are likely wasting a lot of time.
I spend time every day filling out an Excel spreadsheet to account for the day.
When I worked for a large national trucking company, my day usually involved assorted delivery and pickups for a variety of different clients.
Why You Need A Work-At-Home Schedule
I worked long hours and I have always dismissed it as a waste of time, but a job is a job.
That is until I had to retire because of a medical condition.
It’s been 6 months now and my home business is expanding.
Making me realize there are enough hours in the day to accomplish my goals.
Utilizing my own spread sheet and agenda for the day and I have improved my productivity and reduced my stress immeasurably.
If you don’t think you need a schedule for your work at home business then think again — and read on.
Adjusting those unproductive days when my “To Do” list seemed to grow exponentially every time I looked at it.
Granted I was going through a rough patch.
My home business was experiencing growing pains and taking up more than the usual time.
The misses wasn’t pulling her weight on the home front, and my extended family was experiencing a number of crises.
But I’m also old enough to know there is never a perfect time in life.
You just live the one you’ve got.
These are simply the problems I’m dealing with this year.
Next year these problems will be traded in for new fresh ones.
After studying my time and chatting with some other work-at-home folks, I discovered five reasons to embrace the schedule:
- It’s too easy to waste time doing nonpriority tasks.
- It’s too easy to get sidetracked or distracted from your current task.
- Unscheduled work time can often overlap into your free time until you don’t have any free time at all
- Your free time can overlap into your work time until you fall behind with important projects.
- Concentrating your time and effort on highest priority projects means more gets done.
I’m not the only work at home business person using this schedule.
Other entrepreneurs have embraced it and found it more freeing than restrictive.
After all, you are still the one setting the schedule so you are free to schedule yourself off for a 3-hour lunch, an afternoon, or a whole day whenever you choose.
If you find it difficult setting up your schedule and priorities for the day and week.
Then perhaps this can help you.
Sheldon Mohl