How to run your home business on 2 hours a day

Many of us often have a very optimistic view of what we will get done in the day when we wake up, and indeed some tasks may never even get started, like a pile of ironing.

A way to at least make some progress on several different tasks, even if you do not have lots of time to give to one, is to give at least some time to each task on different days, or every day, e.g., 15 minutes a day to reading your emails, 30 minutes to making phone calls, with longer of course on any call that requires it to be longer.

What is encouraging is to be able to see some progress each day but not to have any one task take up so much time that you get little else done

A good way to get something done at least , is to make a plan . Some time back I did a time management course and was taught a method of allotting a code to every job to be done, and labelling them A, B or C, according to priority. A of course being urgent, B needed to be done but not so urgent and C also needs to be done but no hurry. It also helps to have a routine for what time of the day you do the tasks as this helps to organise you.

This system and approach works well to even if you are not running a home business but are applying for jobs. Set aside some allotted time each day to looking for jobs, applying for them, checking your resume to see if it can be improved and working on any courses of study that you are doing.

You will feel much happier and less stressed when you see that even if you are not doing all of a task in one day, you are achieving a breakthrough into it and doing something, so stop thinking and start doing, so that at least you are doing something and you will see that you are getting closer to achieving those goals.

Valerie Hedges