The need for self discipline is very important...since you don’t have a boss and a place to report for work, it is now up to you to schedule your time and perform productive tasks on your own.

Set actual work hours. Decide what hours you are going to work each day and stick to it as much as possible. This is one of beautiful things about a home based business...you get to make this choice based upon your own personal situation for that particular day.

Make "to do" lists for each day. Then, as you complete items, check them off list. You can transfer anything you don't get done on a particular day to next days list and make some notation so that you can see that it is a carryover from previous day...however, remain constantly aware of procrastination trap which leads you to keep putting things off until tomorrow. Hopefully, this will help you to stay organized and on task and allow you to make some real progress in developing your home based business.

Oh joy, oh rapture, oh happy day!! You've discovered Internet, where you can make oodles of moolah with your hobby!!!

Well...no.

"But", you frantically implore, "I've been making/building/creating/counterfeiting [Insert Your Favorite Here] for years and years, and people say I'm really really good!"

OK...Happy for you!

"But", you implore ever more insistantly, "all my friends, co-workers and family say how I always drone on about my hobby to exclusion of all other topics of conversation, even going so far as to change subject of any conversation I encounter to being about my hobby!!"

That's fine...Right after you realize that your friends all moved without leaving forwarding addresses and majority of your family is embroiled in a class action lawsuit for special waivers to enter Witness Protection program, there's a little something you need to know.

You can't make money with your hobby.

That is, not as long as it's your hobby.

Sorry. Now you really have a headache!

What I mean is you need to stop thinking of your hobby as a hobby.

If you intend to make money with it, it becomes a business.

Let's make that stand out just a little more: It becomes a business.

This is part where someone always says, "I don't WANT a business. I just want to make some money with my hobby".

Alrighty, once more, and this this I'll write veeeerrry slooooowwwly...

A hobby is something you do for fun, relaxation, self-fulfillment and that kind of stuff. A business is something you do for money - regardless of whether you also get fun, relaxation, self-fulfillment or whatever from it.

Rule No. 1: You must change your hobby into your business.

That's a totally different mindset. No longer are you performing these tasks for sheer enjoyment of doing so. It's become that horrible four-letter word - WORK. That's only in very strictest sense, because you'll have to do whatever you do to do what you need to do for money.

Now I've got a headache...