What Is Your Motivation?

Motivation is the key to your success of working at home.  What is your motivation?  Is it to spend more time with your kids?  Is it that you want to work for yourself that you are sick of working for others?  Is it the money that you plan to bring into your home?

When you start to work from home, you need to put some thought into what motivates you to do so.  There will be times that you will need to look back to those reasons and remember.  From time to time, you should update them as well.  Sometimes you will be motivated by deadlines, a new project and of course, money.

So what are some things that you can do to help keep yourself motivated?

Ask for deadlines. 

When does your assignment finish?  When is it needed by?  This will do two things:  1. it will motivate you to get the job done on time and 2. It will give you a sense of accomplishment if you do meet the deadline.

Have fun

Make your project into fun little tasks.  Maybe change up so that your boring portions are in the middle of two portions that are more fun.  This will help keep you motivated because you will be looking ahead and wanting to finish so that you can get to that fun portion.

Set mini goals

Most people will set the large goals up right away but you need to set up mini goals.  Say you need to do emails and correspondence.  Set up a goal to do the emails and a separate one for the correspondence.  When you meet both goals, you will feel like you succeeded in something.

You work for yourself – Schedule your time accordingly

Try to schedule a time for you that is best for you.  If you know that you have to get the kids off at a certain time, you know if you schedule that for work that you will not succeed.  Don’t set yourself up for failure.

Reward yourself

Take time off.  Buy that book that you wanted.  Go to the hair salon.  Now be careful about this, taking too much time away could cause you problem.

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