Owning an internet home business can be stressful for a number of reasons. One of the top ones is feeling stressed out and over whelmed.The main reason for those feelings is the big one, not being in control. Not being in control takes on a wide range of emotions, the one that I want to deal with today is not having a firm grasp of what is coming down the pike, what is going to be happening to us in the future. This all leads to dealing with and controlling your time, in other words, proper time management. Control your time, you are controlling your life.
Our lives are made up of time. that is the stuff we use on a daily basis to get what we want done, done. If we are not using our time to it’s maximum potentially, we are simply not getting as much done as we should. One of the key ways we can maximize our time, is to not over load ourselves. This is the problem people who own an internet home business run into and it hurts their production, their ability to function properly and their ultimate enjoyment of life. That’s a pretty extensive list of things that can be effected when you over load yourself, a list that can be greatly reduced, if not eliminated by taking control of your time and not overloading your schedule.
2 Key Elements
1. Determine what is do able and sustainable RIGHT now. This is key, unless you are able to maintain your current workload, you are headed for less and less productivity, not more. If you can not maintain the workload you have, you have no chance of adding anything else in the future, let alone adding a new internet home business to your schedule. What you need to do is start eliminating activities and projects until you are at the point that you are completing your tasks for the day AND have some sort of private life that makes all of the work and sacrifices worth while
We need sustainability and we also need balance. One without the other is an incomplete picture and life. Depending on where you are in your life, have a business, want to start an internet home business, either way, you have to be working from a solid platform, a platform that is workable for today, as well as into the future. Trying to add a new business into a lifestyle that is not currently working for you is just going to end in failure and disappointment for you. You need to give yourself the best possible chance at success, the way to do that is to be able to clear off your plate daily. If you are not able to do that on a regular basis, you are not ready to add anything new to your workload.
2. Start a living life list. I call mine, the power living life list, PLLL, it was the first one, the original. If you want to reduce your stress levels, you want to get a handle on what you want to do today and 5 years from now, you need an accurate, up to date inventory of what it is you are thinking of doing. That is the start of your PLLL. For a long time, there was a disconnect between what I was trying to accomplish, and what I was able to accomplish, and be happy doing it. After dealing with over 60,000 people in the last 30 plus years on finding the best way to achieve the things we wanted to do, and not go crazy in the process, I learned that we all had something in common. What we had in common was that we all had way too many things on our to do list and far too little time left in our available time inventories.
Our wants and our grasps always exceeded our abilities to acheive anything close to what we wanted to do. What was happening to most of us, including me was that we needed up in this stress filled no mans land where we accomplished less than we should of because of all of the stress, anxiety and angst we felt by not being able to accomplish more. There was the need for a way to collect all of the things we wanted to do, in one place, and control them, instead of them controlling us, which is what we had been allowing to happen, up till that point. Out of this need, the power living life list was born.
For starters, go to this site, powertimemanagementsystems, I own it, and read up on the PLLL, its all free info. There is more than enough info there to start up your own PLLL and get started. The PLLL is probably one of my top 3 tools to allow anyone to get the most out of life. When I created the concept of the PLLL, way back in the stone age, I never really knew what a powerful tool it was, until I started to refine it and make it more a daily part of my time management system. Today, I could not function properly without.
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Bryan
