by Elaine | Blog, Time Management
With no boss or set schedule, it’s very easy for work-from-home professionals to just never get around to tasks they don’t want to do—or are afraid they won’t do right. Everyone procrastinates to some degree, but when you own your own business, a procrastination habit...
by Elaine | Blog, Time Management
My NAPO friend @StephCalahan compiled 28 great tips for small business technology from 28 organizing and productivity experts! Read them here (my tip is #23): http://steph.bz/ih6iYY
by Elaine | Blog, Time Management
Whatever the reasons, procrastination threatens to overtake the work-from-home professional who is not on guard. Here are a few strategies you can use to fight back. When the task is overwhelming… Break it up. Deconstruct large projects into smaller steps.Large jobs...
by Elaine | Blog, Overwhelm
I prefer the term “creative delay” to “procrastination.” It involves dreaming up the most elaborate and unlikely way of doing something, so that by the time the scheme is worked out to the smallest detail, it’s too late to start. With no boss or set schedule, it’s...
by Elaine | Blog, Rethinking Your Business
If you start to run out of enthusiasm and inspiration for your work or find that you are easily distracted and not able to stay on task, do something different. Just because you work from home doesn’t mean you have to be stuck in your office all the time. In fact, you...
