When is your best time of day for productiveness?  When are you at your best to get your work done?
Sometimes we don’t have a choice with our home business.  There are deadlines to be met, a job to schedule around, family commitments to meet.
However, if we have some idea when we’re at our best, we can accomplish more.  We can try to schedule our most pressing work for then. 
For instance, if you work best in the early morning (at midday or in the evening), you’ll want to arrange your life so you can aren’t otherwise tied up at that time.  You …read more

Are you productive or simply busy in your home business?
Have you organized yourself for the most productivity?
Ask yourself these simple questions and be truthful as you analyze your business and your activity.
What have you found as you look at what you’re doing, especially if you aren’t where you should be or aren’t making the money you’d like. Yes, some things that you can’t control, like the current economy, will affect your bottom line. So this is the time when you should cut out waste and maximize your time.
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Getting squeezed by email?  Is it reducing your productivity in your home business? Email is, like most new inventions, wonderful and at the same time frustrating.  I talked with one home business owner recently who said she had over 1,000 email messages in her in-box.  That’s not including spam, which she dutifully marked as it came in.  And email is, as Mark Twain said, like the weather – everyone talks about it but no one does anything about it.
In my recent interview with David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, he mentioned that we should consider email like the phone, …read more

You want to watch the Inauguration tomorrow.  After all, history is being made and TV makes it possible for us to be there.  But you have a home business to run.  There must be some things you can do so you can move your business forward while still being involved in this historic occasion.
I have to travel tomorrow, but I know what I would be doing while watching the Inauguration.  Here are three things I would be doing if I were working at home:
Cleaning up email. I don’t usually get all excited about this, and I usually just let …read more

David Allen’s book Getting Things Done is our January “Book of the Month.”  I have been reading through it and finding lots of inspiration to get going.  Today, I wanted to give you a list of stuff that you will need to get started, but before I do that here is something he said that makes a lot of sense:  The filing system you set up should be:
FAST (it should take you less than a minute to get what you need from the file)
FUN (if it’s not fun, you won’t keep doing it)
EASY (that goes with fast, I think)
CURRENT (the …read more

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Whenever youngsters are home from school, it’s often challenging for moms and dads (and even grandparents) to continue operating their home businesses, keeping up deadlines, filling product orders, waiting on customers.
I’ve worked worked at home businesses with two generations of youngsters swirling around me…first my daughter and her cousins, now my grandchildren and grand nieces and nephews. Today has been rainy, so grandson and his pal, my grand nephew, have kept busy creating things with building blocks, occasional forays into a video game, creating imaginative games with story characters, and when the rain stopped, romped with the dog in the …read more

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One of our Home Biz Notes readers, AnnaLaura Brown shares a productivity tip with us.
Backflip.com is an online bookmarking and folder storing service. You can bookmark any website you want and organize all your sites into as many folders as you want. You can also keep any of your folders public so that everyone else can access it or private so that it is accessible only to you.
It is helpful because you cannot organize your regular bookmarks as easily and using backflip allows you to have all of your bookmarks by subject on one website.
How To Use Backflip.com
You download a …read more

It’s Family Month at Home Biz Notes, so let’s look at juggling the work-life balance.
Parents will identify with that high stress time of day when the kids are all home – time for a bath, meals to be prepared and so on. Some call it The Arsenic Hour.
For a lighthearted look at parenting, check out this humorous YouTube video song, to the tune of the William Tell Overture. You just might recognize some of the things you say again and again to your kids.
When you run a home business, how do you cope with the household tasks that have …read more

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Working at home with children is a test of anyone’s home business smarts… productivity, balance, space, time etc.
Genesis of the At Home Mom Blog knows this first hand. She runs a successful writing business from home, and offers some useful tips. Moms are the ultimate multi taskers, right?
These tips can be used by all work from home moms, not just writers.
Here’s a taste, but head on over to At Home Mom Blog for more on each of Genesis’s practical productivity tips. Her tips are especially valuable, as they are the voice of experience from a successful home business owner.

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Does this seem familiar?
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