Thanks so much for these tips! I tend to be either totally scattered or hyper-focused... altho I can't seem to control when the hyper-focus happens....

I think this is exactly what holds me back from actually getting my business off the ground (i've been thinking about it for soooo long). I'm so good at procrastination and I believe i'm scared of taking the plunge, marketing myself, and having to get work done... from home. I'm afraid i'll miss deadlines, let people down, etc...

My safety net is my J.O.B... where I have about 50 things going on at once, yet I can switch between them, and operate at high speed all day. I can't seem to apply that at home. Some of that is the fact that I live in a small mobile home out in the middle of nowhere and my "office" is actually my bedroom. Not good. It's hard to focus on work when you're in your bedroom

I mentioned in another post about a program I completed that required I save $1000 and the program would match it with $4000. So in June, I'll have $5000 to start this journey. I've never had $5000, and I've been thinking how I will spend it. At first I was dreaming about all sorts of high end computer equipment, but now I'm thinking that finding a small office in my area would be a better choice. It would get me out of the "lazy" home environment, where distractions like my dogs, the TV, and all the endless home projects are pulling at me.

The daily calendar tip is good - I forget to write things down, or I write things down and then forget to look at them.... i have a mulitude of computer based calendars, to-do lists and such that beep at me, (and one actually yells at me in a computer-generated voice) and i tend to ignore them, or put them off (procrastination, again)...

I think I'm going to pin a dollar bill to the wall behind my computer maybe that will help keep me focused, along with a collage of things I want to accomplish....

Thanks again, you guys are all so helpful and the ideas and problem-solving that goes on here is phenomenal....