Lately I have been finding it more and more difficult to stay focused on well, work, while working at home. Maybe it started over the summer when the kids and my wife were home everyday. I would go (sometimes) into my basement office and do a little work and than come up and eat breakfast or lunch, than maybe take the kids to the pool if they felt like it or find some other excuse not to get back to work. We also spent several weeks on vacation, etc. etc. So when the kids and my school teacher wife went back to school I suddenly have this full day ahead of me to fill up with work stuff. And I have plenty of work I need to/should be doing - blog posts, improve the product listings on the website, write articles for distribution, the list goes on. And besides this obvious business related work, I had also hoped to have time to write fiction now that I don't have the big commute to go on. I have hardly even put pen to paper for journal entries. I could come up with excuses - I have physical therapy twice a week for my banged up knee (not to mention the twice daily home exercises), I have to help get the kids off to school and be here when they get off the bus, the dog needs walking, blah, blah blah.
So what is the solution? For the fiction writing I am going to give/force myself to sit down and write every morning - I have been doing that (for three days now) at least for journal entries (I use the journal as a way to warm myself up for "real" writing.) For work - well I believe it is time to bring out the time tested method of the to do list. Back at my day job I could not function with out a list. I would write it usually at the end of the day so I would know immediately what I needed/wanted to accomplish the when I came in to work the next day. I have for the most part avoided lists since I have been working at home, but maybe it is time to bring them back. I will give it a try - if anyone else has any good ideas let me know...
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