Hello Friends,

If you work from home, you already know how difficult

it is to stay focused on your business. It's also hard

to stay focused if you have a job and are trying to build

and grow an online business so that you eventually can

work from home.

The following things are especially true if:

=> Your office is in your house

=> Your working space is small

=> You have small children at home during office hours. 

=> But don't despair. I will give you 5 quick and easy tips

you can immediately use to get the most out of your working

day.

1. Treat it As a Real Business

Every morning when you wake up, you need to play the

game that you're going to work. You take a quick shower,

have breakfast, kiss your loved ones good bye and leave

for work. Even if this means that you walk down the hallway

into another room. You need to make your family members

understand, that until lunch time you are not available. If

they need you, they need to meet you after office hours. Once

you're in the office, close the door behind you, switch on your

computers and get down to business.  If you have a job, you just

apply these things when you get home.

2. Plan The Day on The Day

Although most people usually plan their days in advance, I have

found a better and more effective way of daily planning. Before

I would get started, I sit down with my dairy and think over all

the tasks and projects I am working on. I start making a list and

then I execute the tasks. I noticed that if create my list in the

morning, I create a much better, fresher list and in most cases I

manage to include the most important ones.

3. Clear Day, Clear Head, Clear Planning.

This simple day planning strategy works for me. If you find it easier

to plan your days in advance just do that. Whatever it takes to keep

your days effective and organized.  You need to work on priority issues

first and leave everything else for the rest of the day.

4. Block Temptation

You need to learn how to block out the temptation of clicking on every

link you see, read email who's headline looks interesting, or surfing

sites looking for the "Next Big Thing!"

5. My Rules to Checking Emails

I don't mix any private emails or industry newsletters with business

emails. I use a totally separate web based email accounts, such as another

Gmail account for that purpose. I check my business emails 2-3 times a

day and respond to them in larger blocks. I check my newsletter email

account once or twice a week. This strategy helped me to save tons of

time.

6. Focusing on One Project at a Time

Even if I have multiple projects running at the same time I tend to focus

on one at a time. I usually dedicate a certain part of the day for a

particular project and try to accomplish my goals set for the day. Then I

take a breather and move onto the next one.

Not mixing projects helps me to stay focused.  When I am working on

project

I have the tendency of not answering phone calls either. I let the

answering

machine to do its job and I call back my clients, before I would finish my

day.

If you follow the advice in the tips listed above, you will reach your

goals much quicker that you could ever imagine.