If you work from home, or you’re the boss of your business, one of the perks is being able to organize the day how you want to.
No longer tied to being at work from 9-5, it’s wonderful to be able to do the shopping when there aren’t any queues at the checkouts; to visit the gym or golf course and take things at your own pace. And if you fancy doing some work in the garden while the weather’s good, you can.
So far so idyllic! But.... you knew there was a ‘but’ coming, didn’t you?
.... sometimes we can get a bit carried away with the freedom of an unstructured day and this can become unproductive, even chaotic if we’re not careful.
One of the changes I recommend to coaching clients when we work on improving their productivity, is to keep a record of those personal hours taken during their core working day and make sure to pay them back to the business. So, if you take 2 hours out to go to the gym (don’t forget to include travel time), then you need to repay that 2 hours, perhaps by working later in the evening than you normally would.
Just because you’re the boss doesn’t mean you don’t need to impose some rules about the number of hours you’re going to work, and to make sure you don’t short change either your business or yourself.
Do you have a set working day or just put in as many hours on your business as you can? I’d be interested to know what works for you.
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