STRUCTURE + BOUNDARIES = FREEDOM

Workplace boundaries will prevent you from reacting to others' interference and getting angry at their disturbances.

No matter what size your business is, you need to set boundaries and provide structure to your workday. You determine your schedule, not your clients or vendors. If you decide your day starts at 9:30 AM, then don't answer phone or turn on computer until then.

Start day with a good breakfast. Breakfast is most important meal of day. Break-the-fast like a king or queen. Don't forget protein. Take frequent breaks during day to give your brain cells a rest. Schedule in exercise for body as well as relaxation for brain.

Leave your office for lunch at least 3 workdays per week. It's much too easy to work through lunch, eat at your desk and ignore your personal needs.

Don't forget those evening meetings, whether networking or classes. Allow time to leave work, home office or a job, revitalize yourself, and be ready for these events.

If you work with others, learn to close your door or put a "Do Not Disturb" sign on your cubicle. It's difficult to concentrate when constantly interrupted. If you allow full access to co-workers, clients or vendors, you may wind up being angry or over-reactive to minor infractions.

The telephone works three ways: you can pick it up, hang it up or not touch it at all. Have voice mail or an answering service. Listening to incoming calls on an answering machine will only prove a distraction. Should I or shouldn't I answer that? OK, I'll pick it up. It's never as important as you think.

With thousands of home business opportunities on internet, many entrepreneurs find themselves jumping into home opportunities solely based on amount they can earn.

But you have to remember; home business is still real world. If you have a degree in marketing, you wouldn’t even waste your time trying to repair computers unless you have a strong knowledge of subject. But entrepreneurs continually leap into home businesses that require a skill they don’t even posses.

What to do? Well, you need to first outline your strengths. Find out what you excel at and apply that to a field that would work from home.

For instance, your friend might be making $16,000 a month using MLM programs. You think, great, I’ll join under him and make $16,000 too! But your friend’s skills include a persuasive personality and a passion for talking on phone. You’re more hands on, and enjoy being a little more creative.

You take up your position under your friend and really crash and burn. Maybe landing is so hard that you tell yourself you’re never going to invest another minute in creating a home business opportunity.

But if you had played on your strengths, and instead wrote an ebook on crafting, you may have well exceeded your friend’s earnings if you’d only taken right direction for you.