“Managing Your Time In A Home Business”

Is your business still an inspiration, or has pressure of time and responsibilities started to dull your enthusiasm?

Find your best working strategy, and you’ll save time and energy that can be better spent on creative avenues of business and with family.

“Defining Your Space”

Defining your space is admittedly more about organization than time, but there’s an undeniable link between two. Have you scanned 100 emails to find that important reference code? Are you still sorting piles of necessary documents on your kitchen counter, just so you’ll know where they are?

Here, then, is reason for creating a specific working area. You may be using family computer, but make space for a file, incoming mail and a notebook. Enforce necessity of a cleared working area by providing bins or drawers for other family members, or your own ‘non-work’ related items. (If you choose to organize them as well, all better, but stick to your priorities.)

If it’s a small business, create at very least five files. One for Expenses, one for Income (let’s hope!), one for Reference Material, one for Correspondence and one for Projects (or Customers). If you deal with very many clients, or companies, give them separate files, otherwise one should suffice.

Consider setting up your email with similar ‘folders’ to keep everything organized and easy to find. Perhaps you can sub-categorize even further as there is not physical space issue.

This section could easily go on and on, but for simplicities sake, it would be best to start out with this system. If you’re already well over your head, creating this simplistic organization system may be best first step, you can refine and itemize bulk of it easier if you take time to make these first main files.

“Getting Busy”

We’ve all done it. A moment arises where you have chance to get some work done and you go to your computer, or workshop or otherwise, and for 5-10 minutes you browse emails or papers, trying to figure out what needs to be done.

With any home business (and this is especially true when children are in mix) you need, or have created, flexibility to work when YOU want. So don’t waste time figuring out what you’ll be doing.

Golden Rules For New Writers - Things you need to know before you begin.

Rules govern everything we do in life; even if those rules are of unwritten kind we abide by them and expect other people to do same. Why should writing be any different? It shouldn’t be and it isn’t. The following rules are basis for good writing. If anyone tries to tell you that rules are made to be broken, remember that you have to learn those rules before you try to bend them or break them otherwise you are just being sloppy, not radical.

If you missed Part 1 of this Article, you can read it in its entirety at my website: http://www.huntingvenus.com/ecwart1.htm _____________________

Spell well

You need to be able to spell in order to write properly. If punctuation is putty in your windows, spelling is bricks out of which your house is built. If you don’t have bricks, you cannot build yourself a house. You will probably find this hard to believe but spelling used to be taught in schools in olden days. Nowadays most people who write do so on a word processor with a spell check function. It is apparent that many of these people do not bother to use their spell checker. This sort of laziness cannot be excused. At same time, you should not rely entirely on spell checker: it is only a machine trying to guess what word you have scrambled. If you are not sure about a word, look it up in a dictionary: it never hurts to know correct meaning of words as well as correct spelling. Never forget that spell check will take your words out of context: if you type "He sold his soul to Santa", you can’t blame spell checker for not knowing your really meant "Satan". People would snigger cruelly if you failed to correct this.

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