Jen,
I am with you there..I used to think I was great at multi tasking working for someone else...Simply because I was a paid employee and had daily tasks and I scheduled them..Now that I am my own boss and I make the rules i find that the distractions are making me insane...I am having a very hard time prioritizing and found that t leached into home..5 years ago I was a scheduled on time bill payer with a life and everything was happy and organized..now 5 years later I have no organization at all...I have made great strides to getting myself on a schedule again at home and it has relieved a whole lot of strees..I am implementing and method that a friend of mine uses and it should help me...he also uses the 15 minute block thing. He shedules items into 15 minute timer blocks and when done in 15 minutes he closes up the book on that project..i think this method also lets you know more clearly when certain tasks eat so badley into your time they might be better off billed out at a higher price or sub contrated by a skilled worker..I am finding that my photoshop skills suck bad and I may be better off by hiring even a kid to work on some of these things and get more done, it may cost me but the strees will be lifted and i can concentrate on things that will get more business in here rather than wasting endless hours on something that will help but won't save my biz like new clients would...I just have to remember that Rome wasn't built in a day and that these processes take time and effort and as long as I am making the effort, I am at least moving in a forward direction and not idling...I get way to down on myslef whan I don't accomplish what I have set out to...It is a major problem and self defeating on my psyche, but i am working on it...I am my own slave driver!!
