Maintain A Diary:

Plan your day/week well in advance.

Make a realistic and carefully planned out schedule. Stuffing the day with a hundred “to-dos” is definitely impossible and would only see you running from one to the other without actually achieving much. Making a proper plan that will help you juggle all that you have in hand.

Prioritize:

Make sure to get your priorities right.

Prioritizing will help you allot adequate time and attention to the assignment depending on its importance and urgency.

Do not make the mistake of saying a big ‘Yes’ to everything. It is not humanly possible for a person to do everything and so it is important to be sure of the tasks that you take on only what is possible.

If you have help at hand, delegation will ensure that you have time to attend to the crucial matters.

Avoid Distractions:

Working from home requires a lot of discipline and thus, it is important that you work from a particular place in the home every day and also allot specific hours to work.

Make your family members know that it is work time and that you need to concentrate.

Make sure that the housework, the ringing of the bell/telephone; or the temptation to log on to your favourite social networking site does not distract you. Such distractions can actually hamper work and productivity and force you to work late into the night.

Ensure Quality Time for Family:

Make sure that you spend quality time with your family.

Letting work expand into your time with family can actually lead to a lot of guilt and cause immense stress.

Draw that fine line between home and work and you will see how happy you are at both places.

Managing time effectively and efficiently is the key to happiness and productivity. Make out your action plan today and you will see the big difference it can make to life, as a whole.