#1 Essential Item for Your Home Office: A DO NOT DISTURB SIGN
Date: Thursday August 21, 2008Posted in: Working From Home, Working Moms
I know you think I’m kidding, but I am absolutely not! This essential will help you get what you need completed and keep your family happy. How? It’s very simple. You get the sign, make one if you want, and show it to all those you love and who love you so much that they need your attention when you’re blogging. Then you tell them you are out-at-the-office when the sign is hung up on the door. You do not wish to answer the phone, you cannot help them with homework and they will need to learn to wipe their own butts until after the sign comes down.
The more you keep firm on these rules, the better your family will be able to handle your work schedule at home. Of course, there are a few rules for you to live by when the sign is up:
- Before you put the sign up, make a list of what you will be getting done while it is up. Touch base with everyone and let them know the sign is going up and approximately when it will come down.
- Put the sign up and work – be productive. Get through your list as efficiently as possible.
- If you are going to take a break, take the sign down.
- When the sign comes down, touch base with your family again.
Get your sign and look forward to more productive days!
What is the reason you have begun blogging? For me it is to make a little money showing people what I know about making a little money on a website or blog. It’s purpose is to do that in a way that is hopefully entertaining and useful to my visitors. This is stated pretty clearly in my Blog’s Mission Statement.
There are three things that happen when you know your blog’s purpose:
- You don’t go off on tangents about places you want to see before you die as often as you do when you know what you should be writing about.
- You’ll attract the visitors who want to read what you’re writing, instead of distract them from the real message.
- You’ll be able to set up the right kind of advertising that will fit your blog like a glove, and therefore make you money.
That’s three pretty good reasons to know the purpose of your blog. Write it out and stick to it!
