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Saying NO to Outside Influences

Building an online business of any type is going to involve dedication to yourself, and to the business. While you may be working online to spend more time with your children or if you are working at home to care for someone who is sick, you still must learn to say no to those other outside forces that are going to try to take more additional advantage of your time.

Your time is valuable. You want to get online, list a few new products, answer a few customer questions or do a little bit of marketing for the day, but you can't because the phone continues to ring and friends want to talk, take a walk or have you watch their children. You are going to have to learn to say no, and be very strict with this. If you were working for anyone else, you would not be asked to 'do these things' and your friends and family would not be calling you as often to take care of these things for them.

Saying no when you can is important so you can focus on the task at hand and then you can focus on your family or other tasks you want to complete. You have set your time online in a manner so you get those things done that you need to get done. Without saying no to others you are putting yourself in last place which is not where you want to be!

Use your caller id! Don't pick up the phone if you are working or if you are under those strict timelines you have set for yourself to get things done for your business. If you only have four hours to work while your child is at preschool or you have one hour to complete a task before heading out to a see someone at the ball game, you need to get your business taken care of, without talking about dinner on the phone with a friend, and without watching someone's child while they go shopping. Set limits and stick to those limits you set for yourself and for your business, you will see more results, more often and your business will grow.

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