How to Budget Your Time When Working from Home

Whether you have a home-based business or whether you decide to work at home for a day, it can be difficult to concentrate when the sink is full of dishes and the beds are not made. Begin your day with housework and you may not get to work until after dinner. Start with work and you may not have any clean dishes to make dinner in. Follow these steps to find out how a kitchen timer can help.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Kitchen timer

1. Decide how many hours you want to devote to your job. For every two hours, add 30 minutes. This is the length of your work day.

2. Set your kitchen timer for 45 minutes and begin working on job-related tasks. When the timer goes off, reset it for 15 minutes, get up and do housework. Repeat this cycle until the end of your work day.

3. If you must leave the house for an errand, immediately return to the 45/15 cycle upon returning.

4. Prepare lunch during a 15-minute housework break and eat it at your desk when you return to work.

5. If you still have housework to do after quitting work, try a "commercial cleaning" while you watch television. Get up from the couch during the commercials and load the dishwasher, fold clothes or do other small tasks.

Tips & Warnings

• For this method to be successful, you must be willing to leave a task unfinished until the next cycle.

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[FranticMommy]

on 6/20/2009 Good tips! I like the 45/15 cycle. Discipline is hug when working at home.