Home Business Tip: Are You Majoring in Minor Things?

It takes 4 hours for you to write an article, 45 minutes constructing an email because it has to be “just right”, and all day complaining that you have so much to do and there’s not enough time in the day.

Stop.
Breathe.
You’re making things too difficult on yourself and because of that, you’re wasting a lot of time on minor things. You’re majoring in minor things.

A lot of it is your own mentality on dealing with issues such as negativity or stress, and some of it has to do with basic time management. You’ve just spent 2 hours on the phone with someone you really didn’t want to talk to, so why did you do it? Too nice to hang up, huh? Now’s the time to take action. Your business sits on hold while you’re trying to be polite.

You want to send an email to your mentor and ask a quick question. So it takes you 45 minutes constructing it, proofreading, spell checking twice (just to be sure). When your mentor receives that email and replies do you think he/she will take that long sending one back to you? Highly unlikely.

How to stop majoring in minor things:
- Trust yourself
- Start reading about time management such as Getting Things Done
- Invest in an egg timer and give yourself tasks on a timer
- If something negative crosses your path, deal with it and move on. Thinking on it makes it worse and raises your blood pressure.
- When working on your home business.. WORK ON YOUR HOME BUSINESS. Don’t mix it up with personal stuff (like paying the bills).
- Organize yourself at the beginning of the day. Set out your to-do list and actually follow it.