How To Organize Your Home In 15 Minutes A Day
by Jill Borash
If you don’t have a block of time daily or weekly to devote to being able to organize your home, the 15 minutes a day approach may be the perfect solution for you. This is also good for people who get easily distracted while working on an organizing project. So what is the most effective way to use this home organizing approach? Here are a few tips to help.
Have A Plan
This approach is not going to get frustrating fast if you spend 15 minutes in different areas of the house each day. So before you begin to organize your home, have a plan of how you are going to spend those 15 minutes every day. I suggest tackling one area of your home to get organized before moving onto another area. So if your priority is the kitchen, plan out how you are going to spend those 15 minutes every day in your kitchen. Don’t just tell yourself that you are going to spend 15 minutes in your kitchen in order to organize your home. Plan out what you are going to do every day in those 15 minutes for the next week.
Get A Timer
If you are going to organize your home this way, you need to have a timer. A timer will help give you a sense of urgency for your project and will make sure that you don’t get too far into it. A timer will also make sure that you stick to your commitment and keep you on task during your home organization project.
Pick A Small Task Or Make The Task Into Sections
Seems obvious I know but still worth mentioning. When you organize your home this way, you need to think about your home a little differently. You will need to look at every organizing project in your home in terms of minutes. Look around your home and figure out what is going to take you 15 minutes to organize. And if you know that one of your kitchen cupboards is more than a 15 minute task, then you will either not be able to use this home organizing approach for that cupboard or you will need to find a way to separate the cupboard into 15 minute sections.
Make Decisions Quickly
The great part about using this method to organize your home is that it forces you to make quick decisions about items in your home. You will not have time to sit there thinking about the kitchen gadget that you got from someone that you don’t even know how to use. You won’t have time to try to remember who gave it to you or what exactly it is. And a quick tip here about getting rid of things: if you don’t know what it does, get rid of it. If you haven’t bothered to figure out what it does by now, you never will. If you really want to organize your home, you will need to get rid of things you don’t use, even if they look cool.
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So let’s recap, if you want to organize your home for 15 minutes every day you will need to: Plan out where you are going to spend those 15 minutes every day, get a timer so you stick to 15 minutes, pick a small task or break up a larger task into sections, and make decisions about the items in your home quickly. For more free home organization tips, go to http://www.YourHomeIsOrganized.com
The Internet – A Work at Home Revelation
by Bob Saville
Some of you may have chosen to work at home running a small business that isn’t computer or Internet-related. That’s great! You have been able to translate your skills into a market niche that is providing you a steady income. With the Internet, people are learning to make money – even while they sleep – and finding a healthy return on their investments.
The Internet has redefined what work at home really means. Not only can we conduct simple e-commerce, but we can also profit from an area that grows virtually everyday – simply surfing the Web. The Web grows by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of pages per day – so why not take advantage of a growing marketplace?
So, what are some of the main Internet work at home opportunities? We’ll take a quick look at four of the primary areas people like yourself are making money with Internet work at home opportunities:
* E-books / White papers – Type in a subject on the search engine and you are probably going to find someone who has written an e-book or white paper on the topic. Buyers build their work from business by selling these e-books and white papers around the clock to people all over the world. It is as simple as having a good book written, marketing it on the Internet with a dedicated sales page, and making the sales. This can be a great passive work at home opportunity for someone who finds the right niche at the right time.
* Affiliate marketing – Websites that provide products and services to people are constantly on the lookout for people who want to help direct traffic to their products. Many successful work at home entrepreneurs have made a steady income by acting at the traffic funnel to these e-commerce sites. Each time a person clicks through your site and then purchases a product from the parent site – you collect a percentage of that sale!
* Surveys – If you have even a couple of extra hours each day, you can carve out a great work at home side income by doing surveys and participating in focus groups that work through the Internet. The pay structure varies from site to site, but many survey sites boast up to $75 for some of their surveys. If you can do 4 per month, you’ve added $300 to your income.
* Telecommuting – If you aren’t entirely Internet savvy, another way to go in the work at home world is to telecommute. This is essentially doing data processing work from the comfort of your own computer. This can be a great way for parents looking after children to make extra money while caring for the kids. It could range from medical billing to accounting information for companies large and small – and because of the Internet, the information is easily transferable and you can often access company sites from your home computer.
Never has it been easier to work from home using your computer and the Internet. The opportunities are literally endless. Aside from direct marketing opportunities on the Internet, you can also use it as a constant billboard for a different product or service that you might be able to provide. Maybe you build birdhouse, or you are a certified family counselor that can serve clients from your home.
The Internet is an ongoing information source that we can take advantage of for our work at home business. Take the time to learn how it can help you, and instantly you will see the power it has to increase the profit from your work at home business.
