Self Employment Schedules and Work at Home Time Wasters

I work at home, and I waste A LOT of fucking time. The name of this blog is as much a reminder to myself to get to work as anything else. Do It Fucking Now! is me talking to myself. What the fuck did I do today? Nothing? Well get to work!

I think a lot of self employed people who work at home on the computer have a terrible time with time management, scheduling and getting shit done.

Why? Well part of working at home is the attitude that " I don't have a lousy 9-5. I work when I want!"

That's great, BUT....

What happens is " I work When I want" turns into " I'm going to sit at my desk 18-20 hours a day until I pass out and do the same thing tomorrow." And of those 18-20 hours, maybe 1 or 2 involve actual productive work. It's like Office Space except for twice as many hours and "working at home."

The Solution?

Get a Fucking Schedule!

Huh? Yep you read that right. Make a schedule. It doesn't have to be 9-5 or 40 hours. It can be 2 days a week, 5 days a week. 20 hours, 50 hours. Whatever. Just fucking do it!

Keep in mind you STILL get the benefits of working at home, including FLEXIBILITY. If you want to work 12-9 On Monday and 5-6 on Tuesday, you can do it. If you want Fridays off- go for it. The thing is, if you schedule the time and do the work you will get a lot more done than if you are just sitting around on the computer all day with your mind and mouse wandering. You can probably work a 20 hour work week and get more shit done than working 40 hours for yourself or anyone else.

Arrange and Delegate time and/or resources to productive tasks!

When you work for someone else there are certain things you have to do every day or every week. You do what the boss tells you and if you dont get those things done you are costing the company and getting yourself in trouble. Why dont you do the same thing when you work for yourself?

Look at the project you are doing and figure out EVERYTHING you have to do on a regular or even rare basis to keep making money. Then devote a specific amount of time and blocks of schedule to get those things done.

I use a 2 week schedule and it's perfect. You know why? There are some things you don't have to do every day or even every week. Well, maybe you can say, I will work at or look at this shit every OTHER Thursday for 1 hour. Perfect. Some tasks might need to be performed every WORKING ( I say working because you should take days off, seriously) day. Ok then. Give it an hour or 2 or whatever is needed every day, and then MOVE THE FUCK ON. Do not spend 5-6 hours a day dragging out time on one task you will be doing tomorrow anyway. Move on to the next thing. COme back fresh tomorrow.

Some things are very time consuming but you don't want to look at it again for awhile. For example, I have an eBay business. It's pretty small and relatively small % of what I do. I ship twice a week. That's it. I used to ship daily and constantly answer email questions. No more. It's a waste of fucking time. On my shipping days, when I'm done I know I wont have to mess with that shit for at least 3 more days. I also own a specific website like that. When I work on it I really get going and can devote 3 or 4 hours straight of intense work. But when I'm done it's C YA Til next Week.

If your time is disorganized try this shit. It may go against your shitty " I aint got no job so i work when the fuck I want" mindset. But it fucking WORKS.