The need for discipline in a work at home job is essential to the success of the business. After all an individual can't do their job efficiently if they're playing at the Atari arcade online or catching the latest judge show on television. These workers need to realize there is a time for play and a time for work, and while many are gaining a better picture of that dynamic there is also another element that goes hand in hand with personal discipline.
The Priority Principle
You will have work every day that you know you need to do, but there is every chance in the world that sometime during the day you will receive urgent requests. Have you factored in time in your day to manage emergencies or do you simply pile in as much as you can and apologize if you can't get it all done?
Doctors will often try to leave one or two appointment slots open each day to allow patients who have medical emergencies to find an appointment in their schedule. Those physicians who don't have such a practice can either overbook or unintentionally send patients to another medical facility for emergency care.
How To Prioritize
Your highest priority will probably be to manage the delivery of goods ordered, followed by administrative duties that need to be done, marketing and product creation. These may shift in priority placement from one day to the next. That being said you may have opportunities that come up from time to time that don't exactly fit with your daily list of priorities, but represent a great potential for a much larger opportunity. You would then need to come to terms with the value of that priority and reshift either temporarily or longer term.
For instance in the construction of this information I was presented with an opportunity that would take a relatively short period of time to complete and result in a larger than expected payment for services rendered. I chose to restructure today's priorities to meet that new opportunity. I've effectively connected with a first time client, was paid well for my time and may have new opportunities in the future. The end result is that with a few subtle shifts in my priority list I was still able to complete the absolute essentials I needed for the day.
Are There Non-Negotiables?
The area you need to be concerned about primarily is product fulfillment. If you have promised material would be delivered by a certain date then you can not really justify moving your entire schedule around to accommodate a request that will make delivery of many other products or projects impossible.
Your priority list is important to the functioning of your work at home business. If you can work to install some flexibility within that list you will probably find that you can take advantage of new opportunities in ways you couldn't if you simply tried to cram more work into every waking hour. You may still remain very busy, but the choice becomes yours to select or reject new opportunities instead of feeling as if you have no choice.
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