So here are a few helpful hints to help you find little pockets of time to work your business in the midst of your ultra busy life.

One thing that has been extremely helpful with me and my business has been to write down how I spend all of my time during the week. Now I don’t just mean “home” or “at work” but every single thing that you do during the day.

For instance I found that during a certain day of the week I was watching 3 hours of TV and on another night I was just surfing the internet for a couple hours not really accomplishing anything.

I promise you that even if you have the busiest of schedules if you do this exercise you’ll find a ton of time you never even knew you had!

Another thing you can do to find more time for your business is to get up one hour earlier in the morning or go to bed one hour later at night. Of course I don’t want you to be dead tired during the next day but one hour isn’t really that much and you can get a lot accomplished during that time.

A lot of people find it to be very effective to work their home based business on their lunch break from work. If you get an hour for lunch you can eat for the first 15 minutes and then make calls for the last 45. You can have some good conversations in 45 minutes.

Remember that finding time to work your home based business is all a matter of desire. If you really want to make it happen you can do it no matter what your schedule looks like while others can have a ton of time but very little desire and therefore get nothing done.

Make the choice to find time every single day to work on building your business. A home based business is like nothing else because you build it once and it will take care of you for a very, very long time. Make some small sacrifices now for a huge payoff in the future.

1. Work through your lunch break

If you’re trying to build a business while still holding down a full time job that can be really hard. That’s why many people use their lunch hour from work to call prospects, write articles or update their blog. You can probably eat your lunch in 15 minutes anyway. Just cut out on the office gossip and go make some money!

2. Cut out one TV show a day

If you stopped watching one hour long tv how a day you could get a whole lot more work done! Plus with most people having a TiVo or DVR these days you might not even have to miss it… just postpone it until the work is done.

3. Get up an hour earlier

Ok so you can’t call prospects at 6 in the morning… but you could organize your files or post things online. By getting up just an hour earlier each day you can start your day off on the right foot and who knows you may have a new sign up by that evening!

4. Work on the weekends

I know I know the weekends are suppose to be a time to relax but think of it this way… the harder you work now the more you can relax later. Besides it doesn’t have to be the entire weekend. Just a couple hours on a lazy Saturday afternoon.

5. Schedule it in

When all else fails just schedule in some time each week to work on your business. Because after all if it’s on the schedule it is much more likely to get done!