My Retrospective

My Retrospective
By Trina L.C. Schiller

You know, change is good. Really, I mean that.

In the last couple of months, I have been going through some changes, both personally and professionally. I was feeling the signs of burn out, and decided that it was time to make changes in several areas of my life, in an effort to avoid total burn out.

Do you ever feel like you have too much going on? Does it ever seem like you are smack dab in the middle of everything, and you can't remember how you got there, or how you're going to get out?

Well, that's how I was feeling.

I found myself in the position of having to reprioritize my daily activities. (I revisited single motherhood, while my husband spent most of October and November up on North Mountain. Jeff manages a 1600 acre hunting ranch. He has to make sure that the city boys don't shoot each other, while hunting, or get lost in the woods.) Therefore, I needed to manage my time better than I had been.

I needed to adjust my office hours, to accommodate my kids more. I needed to reorganize my business commitments and involvements as a result of the changes in my schedule.

I put some things on the back burner, dropped some things that weren't going anywhere, and rebuilt my web site. I didn't write as much as I had been, but I was going through a bit of a block. I did, however, manage to get quite a bit done on the priorities I had isolated, so perhaps the writer's block wasn't such a bad thing.

Now that my husband is back home with us, this reorganization is really paying off. I am writing again, I'm able to schedule appointments with others, and I've actually found some time for myself.

If you've got too much going on, and are feeling overwhelmed, do yourself a favor... STOP what you're doing and reorganize yourself. Working from home isn't supposed to wear you to a frazzle. It is supposed to provide you with more opportunity, not more stress. Give yourself a break, and do something creative. Getting involved in something creative allows your mind to release the stress you've built up. Creativity is conducive to positive thought flow, and that leads to increased productivity.

My creative project ended up being the redesign of my web site. With that, I restructured my business involvements, and reorganized my time, and I also made my web site better for my visitors and customers.

Stress management is vital to being successful. After all, who cares if you build the largest home based business empire ever, if you die of a heart attack before you can take your first vacation?

The changes that I made in my daily activities resulted in a positive outcome. Change is a good thing, and work is not work when you love what you do. If you bite off more than you can chew, spit the rest back out, or you're likely to choke on it. Manage your time; create a schedule that you can actually live with, and stick with it. You won't find the success, or happiness you are looking for, unless you implement a realistic time management plan.

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Keywords: time management, stress management