Everybody tends to lose time when working at home on their Internet Business.

If you manage your time well you will be productive and also be able to free up extra time to spend doing the things you like.

Often you can be distracted when reading your email and following links to other websites and also on Social Networking sites.

With a few tips you will be able to manage your time and focus on the things that are important. Utilising the Peratos rule of 20% effort for 80% reward.

So to the tips

Tip 1

Define Long Term Written Goals

This will help you focus. Often it is our mindset and our desires that keep us moving forward. Once distraction hits your level of productivity lowers and you find you are putting in 80% time for 20% reward.

So First define your long term goals and then develop smaller steps to help you get there and also to stay on track.

Tip 2

Delegation of duties is a time saver.

Work out what steps you can delegate. There may be parts of your business that you can outsource such as article writing, traffic exchange surfing. I get my kids to do this for me. They love it and it saves me money.

Tip 3

Don’t make your daily and weekly lists that long that you never get through them. Leave times for things that are not planned for. Murphy’s law will always present something that will suck up your time.

Your stress levels will suffer if you are always trying to squeeze too much into too little time. Your family will also suffer believe me.

Tip 4

Eliminate or minimise Distractions.

Distractions are everywhere when you work from home. Try to do your work when there is no one around to distract you. 1 hour of uninterrupted work will achieve so much more that 1 hour or even 3 hours of work with distractions. Put the phones on answering machine and lock yourself away. I usually achieve more when the family are still in bed in the mornings and I am bright eyed and bushy tailed.

If the only time you get is when the family is at home explain to them that if you need some space and make sure you are done in an hour.

Tip 5

Don’t keep putting the large difficult jobs off

Look at the Big Jobs and see if they can be broken up into smaller tasks. Do a few of them at a time and make sure you do it when you concentrate the best.

Tip 6

Arrange your work space.

Your workspace can be both your desk and your computer. These can both get cluttered.

Have the links you use often handy. Sites used the most bookmarked for easy access. Your desk should be tidy with things you use often kept close and handy.

Most importantly Keep those Social Networks closed until your work is done

Tip 7

Try to find a way to combine tasks.

In everything we do we duplicate the same task eventually. Combine these duplicate tasks to save time and also money.

I download audio tutorials on my ipod and listen to them while I am exercising.

Tip 8

Follow the one touch rule.. This is dealing with the task at hand when it presents itself. Only handling a piece of paper once. Deal with it or trash it. This is also very necessary with email.

Tip 9

It is a good idea to do a daily work log if you find you are starting to get distracted. Write down you achievements for the day and then check this log to see if you could have done things a little differently. It will also help you define a work pattern where you can join like tasks and further optimise your time. Identify those activities that are bringing greater rewards and spend more time on them than on those activities that do not get results.

Tip 10

Set aside some time to learn.

There is always room for growth. Personal growth is always positive to your well being. Take some time out to learn more about yourself, your business, and how to manage your stress and health.

I find my mind likes to stay active and I am always learning something new everyday. This process may just involve taking a step back and analysing you business and learning from your mistakes to listening to self improvement tapes or doing courses, seminars etc. All knowledge is good and they say Knowledge is power.

I download audio tutorials on my ipod and listen to them while I am exercising..

So your task now is to get yourself organised and then you will start to reap the rewards.