Keeping Organized Midst Interruptions
When your businesses consist of home businesses, reorganization in the home affects one’s time and work load. We live in a multi-generational home with six of us using space that originally was shared by three, then two when our daughter left home. Now, due to various circumstances and health situations, her family of four live with us.Now that our granddaughter has left for college, there’s some rearranging going on as far as bedrooms and business space is concerned. So while we stop, or take moments out, to rearrange and reorganize (and set the extras out for another yard sale tomorrow), business matters get squeezed in between.
How does one keep on track with business when other activities are going on? In the midst of all this, my laptop crashed, so I have so work around hubby’s schedule at his computer.
- Decide which items are absolutely necessary, which deadlines MUST be met today…before I leave for my evening job outside the home?
- What can I rough out (I do much writing online as one of my businesses) and then refine tomorrow?
- What e-mail correspondence needs to be done today…and what can be left? (I do much of the correspondence and billing for my husband’s home business.)
- How can I organize for the yard sale so it’s set up and ready to go early tomorrow morning? Here I can delegate.
- What else can be delegated? Since others can’t do my writing, I can delegate cooking.
How do you keep on track and organized when the unexpected arises?