My husband and I are both over 50, and we’re not retired.  We work at home. 

No corporate boss any longer.  Who’s the boss?  We look in the mirror every morning.

We’re involved in many activities in our town; our lives are full.

I love to garden.  I’m on the Board of a Center in town for developmentally disabled adults.  I love to cook and fix most meals from scratch.  We have two grandchildren we visit whenever we can, and I have friends I keep in touch with by writing and email.  I also love to read, and I’m active with our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture program.) 

In other words, just like you, there are many details in my life.  That’s the hardest part about working at home.  There are so many really good activities that I want to work on.  If I’m building a business, though, it’s important I spend a consistent amount of time building that business.

Designing a plan for building the business and disciplining myself to stick to it.  Determine what needs to be done each day, the single daily action, and sticking with it until it’s finished.  How easy it is to get diverted from what I need to do.

I’m trying Dave Lakani, 45-minute focus  http://boldapproach.typepad.com/.  Here in a nutshell is the 45-minute focus:

• For 15 minutes: Check email, follow-up on personal or office details.  Use this 15 minutes to catch up on details, clean your desk, etc.  Work fast; it’s only 15 minutes. Allow yourself to check your email only twice a day; it can be a real time-waster! 
• For the remaining 45 minutes pick a task that must be completed today and focus completely on that job.  Phone rings, email signals, interruptions: ignore them all.  For 45 minutes focus on only one task and bring it to completion. 

I’m realizing that in the past I didn’t mean to, but I trained my mind to jump from one interesting idea to the next.  At the end of the day I’ve traveled all over the globe, in my mind figuratively, and not brought any one thing to completion. 

I’m building a business so I need to change that. I want to reeducate my mind to keep focus.  My demon mind jumps from one interesting topic to another.  I need to corral that mind and keep it where I want it to be.  Lakani’s  45-minute focus is good.  His webpage http://boldapproach.typepad.com/ is worth looking at, too.

What are your thoughts?  Want to share?

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