If you are easily distracted, staying focused on your business can be
harder than doing the actual work of your business! It is very easy to
procrastinate, especially when you are a WAHM and kids are running
around the house screaming. There are always ‘so many other things
to do’ then work.
Here is a secret that you may not have heard yet: Are you ready? The
dishes can wait! The laundry can wait! So feel free to make those phone
calls or answer those emails. The laundry and dishes will still be there,
waiting for you! However, if you wait too long to call a client back, they
may move on to someone whogets back to them faster than you do.
Why did you become a WAHM in the first place? Did you need to bring in
an extra $500 a month to pay off credit cards? Was it to put money away
for your children’s college fund? Or was it to save for retirement?
What ever the reason, write it down and put it where you will see it on a
daily basis.When you are feeling distracted, look at what you wrote
down. It will be easier to work when you remember why you became a
WAHM in the first place.
You may want to team up with another WAHM. Send each other your
goals and keep one another accountable. Call each other at the end of
the dayand discuss what you accomplished; you can share your
successes or lend each other a sympathetic ear over things that didn’t
go as you planned.
Stay motivated by setting daily, weekly and monthly goals. If you “work
backwards” you will create a road map to your success. For instance, if
youare in direct sales and your financial goal is to sell $1500 in product
that month. Do the math and you’ll see that you need to sell $375 of
product each week.
Now, how many home parties do you need to hold each week to
accomplish that? How many phone calls do you need to make each day
in order to schedule those parties?
When you accomplish your goals, give yourself a little treat to remind
yourself that you worked hard and achieved success!
