Home Business Tips - Do You Have A Problem With Commitment

Posted on July 20, 2008

Do you have a problem with commitment? No, I’m not talking about committing to marriage or something like that. I’m talking about committing to your home business. Think commitment is easy? It’s not. It’s not easy to get up every morning and go to work. There are going to be days when you just don’t feel like it. Even after five years of running my own, very successful business, I get those days too. So how do I do it? How do I commit myself to doing this day after day? I’m going to share three tips with you that have gotten me through five years of running my own online business.

The first thing I do, each night before I go to bed, is make a schedule for the next day. That’s right. I put it in writing. I leave nothing to chance. You know, it’s a funny thing. When you have something staring you in the face first thing in the morning when you wake up telling you “do this, do this and do that” and it’s a hard thing to ignore. I’ve tried. But then, the guilt sinks in. Yeah, I try to find excuses. I try to look for more “fun” things to do, but ultimately, that to-do list wins out…every time.

But the to-do list by itself isn’t going to do it. See, it’s easy to look at something and realize that you have to do it, but if it’s something that you know is going to take you a bit of time, there is still going to be that temptation to put it off. So the next thing you have to do is assign a time limit to the task. Estimate how long it’s going to take and assign that amount of time to the task. So let’s say you estimate that the task will take two hours. Allot that much time. If after two hours you’re still not done, put it aside and work on the next item on the list. This will keep you from ending up getting nothing done at all. Go back to the first item once you’ve finished the time allotments for each item.

Finally, at the end of the day, just before you’ve completed your tasks and are about to make your list for the next day, reward yourself for the day’s efforts. I’m serious. You’ve put in a long day of work and you have the right to reward yourself. Make the reward something that fits the accomplishment. If it was something simple, reward yourself with a snack or a trip to the candy store. If you just finished a major ebook, then go out and buy yourself something special. Works great with me.

If you follow the above plan, you will find that you’ll have no trouble committing to your business and you will enjoy the rewards afterwards. Five years later, it still works wonders for me.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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