The downfall of any owner of an internet home business is falling into the trap of confusing being busy with being productive. Its easy to do, I do it all the time, the difference is, I try to spot when this is happening and work my way back to being productive as soon as I find that I am straying off course. I know  when I am straying off course when I am ignoring my agenda and game plan, yes both of them are tied up in my time management system. One of the ways to stop being busy, which is not a good thing, and start being productive is to have a plan, and work that plan.

Lets look at the concept of being busy and being productive.

1. Being busy is easy, it takes no planning, no preparation, no skill and most of all, its unfortunately the way that the majority of people function. the down side to being busy is that its unproductive, it does not add value to our lives, and in the end, prevents us from doing the priority activities that will benefit us the most.

Being busy gives us the feeling that at the end of a busy day, when  we have been running around doing a 101 one things, that even though we worked hard and were busy, we still have that feeling that we did not have a good day. There is a feeling that we worked hard, did do and accomplish things, but that we should  of and could of done more. The key is, we could not of done more, but we could of easily done more of the RIGHT things. Proper time management is not about doing more, its about doing the right things, its about picking and choosing to do some tasks over other tasks because of the payoff to us in the end.

2. Being busy, by itself, guarantees us nothing, being productive guarantees that we are doing what is best for us. With being busy, you are leaving the quality and the return on your time investment up to chance, with being productive, you are ensuring that what you are doing will give you the best return on your time and energy. You always want control, no matter what,  when you take the time and put in the thought process to make sure that what you are doing is going to be valuable to you, you are making sure the end result will be productive. Running an internet home business requires that the time you have allocated for it is spent on doing the key priorities that will give you the biggest bang for your buck.

3. Yes, you can be busy and productive, no, you can not rely on being busy and having the end result to be productive. One has to lead the other, you need to be sure that what you are doing will result in what you want it to result in, THEN you can be as busy as you want because you have already taken the guess work out of the equation. The other way around, you are just jumping in, getting busy with whatever comes up and hoping against hope that you are some how miraculously doing what you should be doing. Life is too short, too complicated to leave the results we are going to be getting up to chance, that is what you are doing if you are just concerned with being active and busy.

You have to be the person who is driving your agenda, you need to be sure that every day is spent on the activities and tasks that will benefit you and what your goals and dreams are, the best way to do that is too make sure you routinely accomplish your key priorities  on a daily basis, which translates to being  productive and not just busy.

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