Is Life Getting In the Way of Your Home-Based Business?

Is Life Getting In the Way of Your Home-Based Business? 5 Steps to Take Today to Keep You on Track

Working from home provides the ultimate experience of freedom in many ways, but at the same time it can easily allow a freedom we take for granted – a freedom that if not appreciated, can actually sabotage our success.

In the corporate world we have structures, deadlines, rules and bosses to keep things in order and on track. These are often the elements entrepreneurs want to escape from when they start a home-based business.

Although these fundamentals have their place in the corporate world and can be viewed by entrepreneurial spirits as restrictive, provoking and unnecessary they play a significant role in assuring a successful home business environment as well.

As a government employee for 12 years, I often felt smothered and restricted by the regimental practices that guided daily work life. When I left my position to run my home-based business it felt as though 200 pounds had been lifted from my shoulders.

I was finally free to do what I loved, how I chose, when I chose.

Structure and good time management have always been a...