The Journey To Success In Your Home-Based Business

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Home \| Business \| Work Life Balance \| The Journey To Succe ... The Journey To Success In Your Home-Based Business Submitted by Diana on 2006-02-15 and viewed 185 times.

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Tips on balancing your home life and your home-based business to achieve real success.

How do you measure the success in your life? As a home-based working mom it�s so different than the outside corporate world. I know for me, one day it can be a call from Borders that they are accepting one of my books, where another day it can be that I finally got my 5-year-old to go on a field trip at school. The last two she had missed being too scared to attend and instead spent the day home, sick. Both days, I consider huge successes! Both days, I felt a real winner! It can be the little things such as a day we get all our work done while attending a sick child, or the opportunity to drop everything to drive down the street to see your daughter�s newest boyfriend. Success. That�s what we are trying to achieve in our home-based business. So how can you achieve this success for your business and family? How can you make more good days than bad? Here are some tips: I hope they help you as much as they help me. Start Early: I find that by getting up an hour or so before everyone else, I can accomplish so much more. That allows me the extra 10 minutes of devotional time, a few minutes to enjoy my coffee alone, and then time to dig into my work. I usually save my peak work for this time as this is truly when I�m at my best. Regroup and Rebalance: So often home-based moms feel overwhelmed and unable to accomplish anything because of this. Try breaking it all down. Take a day or two and write down your typical day. What can you change to make it better, to make it work? Often when it�s down in writing, it�s clearer to see where changes can b

e made. Try to lump together tasks and delegate any tasks you can. And above all else�Avoid Guilt!! All guilt! Even the guilt you put on yourself. Eliminate time-robbers! We still have to cook dinner, (I tried, it didn�t work!) but I don�t have to talk to my friend, who doesn�t work, for 45 minutes during my workday. Say No! Also, with my kids I found some of the work I actually could take outside or in another room. There�s no rule that says I have to work at my desk. Perhaps you can create different workstations around the home. Be creative. Shortcuts To Success: What can you do to make your business run smoother? Constantly be thinking of ways to improve upon your business. Organization is naturally a big one. The more organized you are, the better you�ll be at many things. Another shortcut for me was to create different books of materials that I frequently used so I didn�t have to reinvent the wheel each time and it was right in front of me. Thus, I created different 3-ring binder books of marketing letters, press releases, etc. Anything that I frequently use and would save me time. Think about things that you can do for your business. Things that you use often, that you could print out and possibly make a collection of, and then look to as a resource. Or what other time saving tip could you think of that would help your business? Focus on Success: Continue to see yourself as a success and focus on your goals. Success is within your reach when you continually focus on your goals, both for your business and your family.

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Diana Ennen, author, publicist, book marketer and mentor. She has written numerous books on operating a home-based business including Virtual Assistant: the Series and is president of Virtual Word Publishing http://www.virtualwordpublishing.com and http://www.Publicity-VA.com.

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