All your time management efforts will come to a screaming halt if don’t control interruptions. You need to get tough about your office space especially with summer around the corner. If you lay the ground rules now, maintaining them throughout the year will be easier.

First, you need to respect your time. Treat it like your most valuable asset. Until you respect your time, nobody else will either.

Establish set business hours. Those business hours create an "invisible" boundary between home space and office space.

Try to choose a room with a door for your office. Put your office hours on the door. Close the door when you work on your identified high profit actions. Not all homes offer the luxury of an extra room for the office.

When I first started my business, the office was in an open area that naturally invited interruptions. I printed a sign with my business hours and another with "Mom at Work." When the Mom at Work sign showed up on the desk, it meant "don’t even think about coming into the office space, talk to me etc". In other words, "Don’t Disturb" me.

Even though my office now has a door, sharing the space with hubby presents a new set of "interrupting" challenges. We came up with non-verbal ways of letting each other know not to disturb while working. I use the "brain" stress reliever toy. If my "brain" is sitting on the desk corner, it means don’t talk or ask questions etc.

You may need to hire a babysitter for a few hours to watch the children so you can devote a few "concentrated" hours on high profit activities. For older children, look into some type of day camp. Allyce plays cello and loved going to the Cleveland Music School Settlements’ summer music camp.

If you know another home office person with children, you can do a "swap" watch. Once a week, agree to watch each other’s children for a couple hours. This will give both of you at least a couple hours of total uninterrupted time each week.

Treat your business seriously. If you treat your business like a hobby, so will your family. Your family will take clues from you on how to react and behave about your home office business. It will take some training, but let your family know the consequence of the lost money they cause every time they interrupt you. And don’t forget to also let them know when they experience the benefits that resulted from the uninterrupted time.

	Ann Rusnak - The Time Diva Entrepreneur Time Strategist
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