For many busy women (especially moms) working from home sounds like the ultimate way to "be two places at once".....Often with visions of Superwomen dancing in our heads ,we enthusiastically try to work from home. The problem for most is the constant desire to multitask...loading the laundry while listening in on a conference call, answering personal email while trying to get out the door to a client appointment. Often we don't achieve the highly productive work time we expected..instead I hear from many of my coaching clients things like "I have been working day and night and still haven't invoiced that client......or finished that press release"
This summer I read Julie Morgenstern's book..Never Check Your Email in the Morning. This book was really aimed at corporate workers..yet the point was still clear, AMERICA GETS SIDETRACKED! Our lives our more complicated than ever and we are getting less done in our day...not more.
As a Coach I often help women create schedules that help them focus, here are a couple of tips:
- create a clean functional space to work in (of course I recommend a beautiful space)
- plan your time, schedule productive work blocks
- schedule a LIFE for yourself (after all we are working to live, not living to work!)
- make lists that are prioritized (knock out the important ones, BEFORE the easy ones)
- Money & clients are a priority over coworkers & tasks that will never produce $$
- honor your family time, don't answer the phone when its time to focus on your family/friends.
Being self employed is truly a freeing opportunity, just be careful not to get "tied up " in the endless requests of others for your productive time.
Guiding your success,
Laure
