And How Balanced is YOUR Home and Business Life? Published by Tana Hamiter - Goes Green Mentor
In a previous article I discussed the need for Activity Management and the benefits it has on de-stressing your life. You must learn to organize your business life and home life in balance or failure will loom over your head. No one has success in any income opportunity if they can't balance their life and business. Today is a great day to start getting organized. What use is a Home Based Business if you are driving yourself to exhaustion and frustration? If you truly are going to work towards that Income Opportunity then being disciplined and organized is a must. I suggest you look back to article part 1 on Activity Management.
A Google Search on Importance of Activity Management can lead you to most everything you need to know. The secret, yes the secret is to use this information on a consistent basis. That leads to business success and Income Opportunity.
First: ONE system that carries all your information in it and I mean everything! I’m going to address the regular person, not the techno jocks which keep up with everything from buying stocks to having a cell phone of sorts beep you when it’s time to buy your mother a birthday present.
You will have to piece together your own system because at this time there is not one available to meet all your needs. Get a zippered Day-Timer of sorts (zippered so really important things don’t fall out). There are three sizes most common, tiny if you have almost nothing going on in your life to manage, medium size and the semi brief case size. I use the Medium Size and have for yours for my home based business.
You need a yearly calendar, monthly calendar showing all seven days of the week (I like the columns going down am to pm, not the squared ones. Daily work pages (left side is the schedule for the day and on the right side you make a list of things to do). Think carefully and write your primary goal. Hand writes it out EVERY DAY, your primary goal for the day and a place to list those things that are scheduled to be accomplished.
Now have a section for an ongoing to do list that everything gets placed on to, except for a separate section for buying groceries. So this ongoing list might have: finish tax preparation, sign kids up for summer camp, call someone, reschedule the date for party, write 5 new blog posts, check back office of web site and contact 5 new people for support, etc. This list gets everything that crosses your mind. NO exceptions. Have column for making a date if it must be done by a certain time. Also prioritize them. Note what things can be cancelled, delegated or put of until appropriated time.
For those things that take multiple tasks, for example plan wedding for Mary: Start a page with the heading ‘Wedding for Mary’ and then start making an ongoing list of everything that will need doing, using the same system as above.
Have a place for Address and email, possibly pass codes, etc. Have a section for taking notes; some folks need a section for clients and your ongoing work with them.
Personalize your system to meet your needs. Everyone has different needs.
Now tie it together. EVERY NIGHT, yes NIGHT, so it settles into your consciousness while you sleep. Do two things; Review what you did accomplish that day. Take note, did you overbook yourself, are you in balance? Some things you will decide are priority and move to next days to do sheet and others you will realize just are not that important. Delegate, Cancel or put on the back burner what you need too. Congratulate yourself for your growing success.
Look at your Main Goal, read it again. Go to your to do page and see what tasks need doing TOMORRROW; be sure if you put call George also write down his phone number. Keep things simple. Write only the tasks that need done TOMMOROW so you can quite carrying and worrying about things, holding them in your mind while you try to be productive. Don’t worry, now they are all written down for you and you can let it go.
Check your tasks page that has multiple things needing doing. Is there anything on it that needs done TOMORROW? Notice I keep coming back to looking at each day, one day at a time.
Once written down, look it over, is everything there? Did you overbook yourself and need to simplify your life or are you in or out of balance to achieve your goals both business and family.
One more bit of help. Have both a pencil and highlighter in your day timer. Write out all your lists in pencil as things will need to adjust and change as priorities change. Crossing out ink makes a mess and clutter slows productivity, even in a day timer. Now as you complete any task, take the yellow high liner and mark through it so you can easily see your victories. If I’ve called George for example but only got the message machine, I’d put yellow line ½ through it so I know its started but not done.
At the end of the day this gives you a very visual report of your progress. I guarantee it will when followed every day, distress your life (because you aren’t having to hold so many things in your mind) and it will give you a real look at how you work, where you scatter your energies and what you need to shift. In a home based business it is critical you become your very best employer and the very best employee if our income opportunity is going to be a success.
Want to reach your goals? Then learn Activity Management to increase your income opportunity in your home business. I guarantee as you distress your life, plan with purpose and use time wisely your odds of success rapidly increase.
Choosing the right companies to work with and having the internet/web tools to support you and your home based business is important. But so is having a mentor and team members in the company who share their hard learned secrets to success.
We all use Veretekk System for all out internet/web support, tools and training, You can have a FREE for life Silver Veretekk System to get you started with some tools you will need for a serious income opportunity. Contact me with any questions on how to use or what fee classes will help you with your needs. FREE VERETEKK SILVER web optimization tools and lead generator. My home based business would have been a complete failure without the Veretekk information and free training programs to back it up.
Secondly if you asked me as a mentor I’d suggest you look into Streamline Magic. They are working as a Strong Team with all the most advanced internet technology behind them. It doesn’t matter if you are brand new or not, the team is there to help and they too use Veretekk as their web tool box. All the training is Free, can’t beat that price. So check out Streamline Magic.
Its time you had a strong home based business with real income opportunity!
Published by Tana Hamiter – Goes Green Mentor
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