Work At Home Mums : 11 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Setting Up Your Online Business.
Work at home mothers may sound glamorous, but it may not seem as easy as it sounds. Many work at home mothers find it hard to juggle between work and family . So, while running through the questions below, remember to ask yourself if the questions applies to you. If it does, find ways to tackle it.
1. Do you have time for your kids?
Most work at home mothers find that they cannot allow children to have unlimited access to them during working periods. So you will need to make appropriate arrangements for their care and set boundaries regarding when you will and won’t be available to them.
2. What are you going to wear since you are working from home?
Experts advise that it is best to dress smartly but comfortably because this will put you in a working mode. But of course, there are still people or rather mothers who can work effectively by just wearing their pajamas all day.
3. When will you eat lunch or take a break?
Will your lunch time be 20 to 30 minutes? Having the kitchen only steps away often becomes a problem for people who work at home. Consciously deciding how you will handle this should make it easier to keep your weight and concentration in bounds.
4. Which hours of the day will you work?
Should you be working while your kids are in school or during their basketball game? Or maybe work at night when they are sleeping? If you consider to work at night, think again whether you will have enough rest? The reason why you should set a time to work is because you can work effectively at hours better suited to your circumstances.
5. How many hours a day or week will you work?
If you can’t set a precise figure how long you will work each day, then you can define clearly how you will decide on the amount of time you will spend working from week to week or day to day.
6. When will you do your household chores?
(i.e wash the clothes, clean the house, pay the bills)/ Some people like to take a break for household chores and find that the change of pace allows them to come back to their home office refreshed and ready to work. Others find that when they stop to do a household chore, the next thing they know the whole morning has been slipped away.
7. What interruptions are you willing to allow?
My advise to you is to have a caller ID installed on your phone. When you received a call, you can choose whether or not to pick up. Or better still invest an answering machine so that you can return those unimportant calls when you are free. Do also remind your friends that you work from home now so that they do not turn up on your doorstep unknowingly.
8. Under what circumstances will you take off a day, afternoon, or a morning?
Sick leave and days off take on a new perspective when you work at home. You will be on your own to coordinate your work with the established leave policies.
9. What information do you need to keep track of?
Usually, in-house office procedures include policies for records you need to keep. Working at home, however, you will probably have to establish your own record-keeping procedures.
10. When do you decide to get someone to help you with your work?
Many work-at-home moms try to do everything themselves. Some can, but others end up saving money by spending it to hire help.
11. How do you manage your money?
Setting up your own business will need you to establish a system for managing the financial aspects of your business. Even if you’re working at home on a salary, you’ll have to arrange a procedure for managing your home-office tax records.
