Shelancers

I find myself writing a lot about resistance lately, in one form or the other. Is this what time management is about? Overcoming resistance? The constant push against us to do things we don’t want to do?

As a work at home mom or dad, we are in the unique position often times to WANT to work more hours!

That makes us lucky and many times frustrated, as the nature of our work at home situation is to have a bunch of other responsibilities to take care of as well.

How can we scrounge up a little extra work time?

Sometimes working at home isn’t as easy as we thought.

Bonbons? Pajamas? That might be true, but it’s usually because we’re up far longer than everyone else, or far earlier so that we can get some quiet time to work, grabbing a quick something that has too much sugar in it because there is no time to make something good. Does that sound easy? It doesn’t have to be that way. Here are 5 common work at home mistakes that can be easily remedied.

Do you go through the day feeling like today isn’t much different from another… from yesterday, last week, tomorrow? Do your days all seem rolled into one, doing the same thing over and over? Do you struggle because you don’t seem to be getting anywhere for all of your efforts? I have one word for you…

You’ve got a brilliant idea for a project.
You’ve set aside time to do it.
You’ve made your plan - outlined the steps it will take.
And added a few.
Hey! This is taking more steps than you thought!
Ever been there?
Started a ’simple’ project that just kept growing.
Kind of like running to the grocery store for a few [...]