Sticking to Your Plans and Goals is Fine,...Until Things Don't Work That Way.
By Joanne Tinsley
It's my experience that working at home can be very counter productive, no matter how hard you stick to your plans and goals.
It's also my experience that the days you plan to do the things that you may have been putting aside, are usually "Days of Disaster."
Okay, so today is the day I'm going to send my Affiliates a personal message to keep them updated on current happenings, find out how they're progressing and if I can help them in any way. I spend a half-hour revising a letter. I log on to get their email addresses and the site has an error message. No Addresses. Now think about it--I run a home business that consists of signing up affiliates. Why do I not have back up of this information on my computer? Why? Because it's one of a long list of things that have been put on the back burner. Mind you, I have access to download this information any time I need it.
I had been piling paper work for a good month. The day I was going to sort through it and file the good, toss the bad, and maybe read the things I had saved to read. So I started are 9 am, after deciding that this paperwork was going into three piles and no more. File, Toss, Read--it sounded simple enough. I started sorting, and by 9:30, I was reading some of the papers I had saved (wasn't done sorting). At 10:30, I realized I still had a task at hand and needed to put down the reading material and get back to work. The phone rang several times, but I managed to keep going. At about 11:15, the door bell rang and I answered the door--UPS delivery. As I rounded the corner to enter my office, the cat came flying out. I peered in and it looked like a bomb had dropped. My three neat piles were now the new floor covering for my office.
And then there was the time I was building a Products Website. I had the first two pages done and I was working on the third. I was happy that things were going so smoothly and that pages were going together without errors. On the third page, I had everything in place and was about to save the file. I just wanted to double check everything before saving. I went to the kitchen for more java and when I returned, my two-year-old granddaughter was sitting in my seat, smiling. Page three missing, editor missing. I still think she was a computer whiz at age two. How did she know how to close the editor?
The site still isn't finished.
Why aren't there 30 hours in a day?
Joanne Tinsley is a successful Home Business owner and the Webmaster of Re'ahnas Home Business Opportunities and Home Based Web Business Opportunity. Visit her websites for opportunities, tips and resources:
http://webspawner.com/users/reahna
http://home-based-web-business-opportunity.com
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