Managing Time When You’re In Self Employed in Direct Sales
Being self-employed in direct sales sounds interesting to a lot of people. They see you making money at home and envy you all the time you seem to have to do other fun things. Little do they realize how much you have to juggle your schedule to get time to do all the little things that need to get done in a day. This is true a lot with the home party consultant, online marketer or almost any other successful home based business.
People often think if you're self-employed you can work when you want to work. While that may be partially true, juggling your schedule often proves more challenging than the actual work. Many people that have quit their 40 hours per week job to be self employed found themselves working a lot more than 40 hours per week, at least when they start their business.
You start your day by waking up, eating breakfast, taking a shower, getting the kids off to school (which in itself is a task), and you're wondering what you should do first. You may start to do some house cleaning, laundry, gardening or one of the many other chores that need doing. After you get these tasks finished, you finally decide to get down to business and start working with your selling. Unfortunately, in an hour the kids will be home from school and you need to make supper, etc.
Before you know it, it's evening before you're ready to start working. Then your friends call because they just got home from work and have time to chat. Oh well, maybe you'll get to work tomorrow. Such is the life of the self-employed! However, it doesn't need to be this way if you have good time management skills. Here are a few personal development tips that may help you to be more productive in your work-from-home business.
Get yourself a household timer and use it. Set it for an hour at a time so you can see how much time has passed. This will help you see if some household tasks are taking longer than they should. Some self-employed individuals allow only so much time for each task so they have to start their €business work€ at a certain time of the day. Many people set the time for a few minutes when they receive a personal phone call. When the timer goes off, they tell the person they need to get back to work.
You may want either to hang a sign on your door stating that you are not at home or don't wish to be disturbed. Another good idea is to let your answering machine pick up the phone calls while you're working. You an always screen through them later and decide which need to be returned ASAP and which can wait until the next day. Just because you're working from home does not mean you don't deserve the same respect you'd get if you worked in an office or other job away from home.
Set a schedule for yourself. I find I'm the most productive first thing in the morning and late at night. I get myself a cup of coffee and set a goal to work for 3 hours. Then I go do my other errands, do some fun stuff and continue my work for a couple hours in the evening. It doesn't always work perfectly with family obligations, etc. You'll find the best way this will work for you is if you're flexible. Once you learn to be flexible with yourself and follow these suggestions, things will go great for you in your home based business life.
People often think if you're self-employed you can work when you want to work. While that may be partially true, juggling your schedule often proves more challenging than the actual work. Many people that have quit their 40 hours per week job to be self employed found themselves working a lot more than 40 hours per week, at least when they start their business.
You start your day by waking up, eating breakfast, taking a shower, getting the kids off to school (which in itself is a task), and you're wondering what you should do first. You may start to do some house cleaning, laundry, gardening or one of the many other chores that need doing. After you get these tasks finished, you finally decide to get down to business and start working with your selling. Unfortunately, in an hour the kids will be home from school and you need to make supper, etc.
Before you know it, it's evening before you're ready to start working. Then your friends call because they just got home from work and have time to chat. Oh well, maybe you'll get to work tomorrow. Such is the life of the self-employed! However, it doesn't need to be this way if you have good time management skills. Here are a few personal development tips that may help you to be more productive in your work-from-home business.
Get yourself a household timer and use it. Set it for an hour at a time so you can see how much time has passed. This will help you see if some household tasks are taking longer than they should. Some self-employed individuals allow only so much time for each task so they have to start their €business work€ at a certain time of the day. Many people set the time for a few minutes when they receive a personal phone call. When the timer goes off, they tell the person they need to get back to work.
You may want either to hang a sign on your door stating that you are not at home or don't wish to be disturbed. Another good idea is to let your answering machine pick up the phone calls while you're working. You an always screen through them later and decide which need to be returned ASAP and which can wait until the next day. Just because you're working from home does not mean you don't deserve the same respect you'd get if you worked in an office or other job away from home.
Set a schedule for yourself. I find I'm the most productive first thing in the morning and late at night. I get myself a cup of coffee and set a goal to work for 3 hours. Then I go do my other errands, do some fun stuff and continue my work for a couple hours in the evening. It doesn't always work perfectly with family obligations, etc. You'll find the best way this will work for you is if you're flexible. Once you learn to be flexible with yourself and follow these suggestions, things will go great for you in your home based business life.
