Effective Time Management - The Secret of Making Money From Home

When you have decided that you want to make money from home, instead of going out to work, your success will depend on one thing – making effective use of your time.

But getting a grip on time is like a daily struggle for millions of people. It’s true that many of us have heaped our daily schedule full of activities. Despite cell phones, internet and microwaves it seems we never have enough time to take care of business, ourselves, our friends and family.

So many of the activities we do everyday are demanding our attention that it can be difficult to make plans for the future. Even if the plans will ease our burdens down the road. We are busy but are we productive with our time? This is where time management has become important.

The fundamental secret of time management is careful planning. This involves thinking about both long and short term objectives and then writing down your goals and how you are going to achieve these. You also need to set deadlines for reaching each of your goals so that you can monitor your progress.

Managing your time on a daily basis, when you work from home is particularly challenging. Family crises can interrupt the best of plans and from time to time and sometimes you will have no choice but to respond and leave the work schedule behind. If this happens occasionally, then you can still achieve your goals as long as you manage your time.

This is where lists play an invaluable role in keeping your productivity high. A ‘To-Do’ list is not just for list making junkies. If you find that tasks are not being accomplished on time or even forgotten you need a ‘to-do’ list.

How detailed you make the list is up to you but every task that is given to you should have the following recorded with it:

• When does it need to be completed?

• How long will it take to do?

• How important is it?

• When will I do it?

At the end of each day make a list of tasks that need to be accomplished the following day. Prioritize them according to importance. Give each task an earlier deadline and 50% more time to complete than you think.

As soon as you start your work day you will know exactly what needs doing and when. If you have booked some uninterrupted time you will have no problem accomplishing your highest priority tasks.
Tasks that do not get completed will be reassigned for another day, delegated to someone else or removed from your list.

Get into the habit of creating a ‘To-Do’ list each day and you will find that your efforts to make money from home will soon be rewarded.