The Play Life

Starting A Home Business – Part 1

Starting  a Home Business takes time & most of all dedication. you are no longer an employee, or a business owner with a multitude of employees to keep your business & you on track. you are now commencing a Home Business, you will have distraction & mini mental battles to keep you focused & on track.

For all of you jumping in to your own Home Business, in your own Home Business, Or even considering generating a Business From Home, Then a fine grand congratulations goes out to all of you.

From my personal experiences jogging a business from home took more mental power of  staying focused on my Income Producing Activities (IPA). I quickly hit a brick wall with that. I spent time organizing my files, cleaning my table, updating website pages, looking at reports in my accounting application, etc… I know many of you are going to say ‘But Roger a quantity of these things are going to need to get done’. My answer is simple & quick. Yes! All these other things still need to get done, but if a home business does not generate any income from it’s activities, How long do you think you’ll be in business for?

I started applying ‘Getting Things Done’ processes. Getting Things Done action management system created by David Allen. You can read David’s book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

This comes back to Income Producing Activities. For this first step – Try to truly identify what your Income Producing Activities are. Do not let fear or anything stop you.

I read the book & implemented the processes. Did it help? Not as nice as I was hoping. However it did help a bit of getting things organized.