Just because it is work at home does not mean you are not working

You need a workplace mindset for the work at home job. I've been working at getting a work at home business up and running, and one thing that I have found out is that you can not work like you are at home. You need to have the same kind of commitment to your work at home job as you world have for a job that you went to an office and sat and worked for someone else at an hourly pay.

Your employer would not accept your spending half the work day standing at the water cooler talking to the other employees or on your cell phone, so why do you tolerate standing on the back lawn talking to the neighbors or walking around the house talking on the phone to people that are not related to your work?

You need to have the discipline to ask your friends to please call you after your work day is over. Set the phone to take calls on the house line and you focus on only what calls come in on the business line. If someone calls the business line just to chit chat politely end the call as quickly as possible so that a client can have the chance to get in touch with you.

I have found that I get a lot more work done when I am not lounging at the computer in my PJs and robe. Get dressed and hype yourself up for a day of working, then spend that day working. Take a lunch break when you have it scheduled for, but otherwise place 8 hours a day five days a week into the proper running and management of your home business.

In six months to a year you will notice a substantial change for the better.