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When you are working at home, it is very easy to become distracted and lose focus on your goals. It seems as if one minute you were working diligently and the next thing you know, your work has been interrupted and an unproductive hour has flown past. Never forget that time is money when you are self-employed and you must guard your time more jealously than a miser would guard gold nuggets.

Running a home based business successfully requires great commitment and self-discipline. Only by exercising self-discipline will you be able to maintain the necessary level of focus. It is only human to be tempted by interesting or entertaining distractions (this is especially true when you are engaged in a difficult or boring task) but as a self-employed business owner, you cannot afford to give in to temptation.

There are two ways to deal with temptation: you can either resist it or avoid it. Being able to resist temptation is undoubtedly a worthy character trait but, personally, I don’t see the point of getting involved in that sort of struggle when there is an easier way to achieve the same end.

If you were on a weight loss diet and know that your biggest temptation is cakes, you wouldn’t keep a supply of doughnuts at home and spend time hanging round the local bakery ogling the freshly baked chocolate sponge cakes and fresh cream éclairs. On the contrary, you would stay well away from all things cake-related, and that seems (to me at least) to be eminently sensible.

If you are new to working at home, tackle it as you would a strict weight loss regime. Put away all sources of temptation and limit, as far as you can, external temptations. If there is a day-time TV program you just can’t live without, record it and set a convenient time to watch it as a reward when you have completed your daily to-do list. If you can’t live without a session at the gym or hairdressing salon, don’t try to deprive yourself, build this into your schedule; a change is as good as a rest and martyrs are not generally the most contented people.

Set your hours of work and tell your family that, during those hours, you will be working at home and will not welcome interruption. Make sure your partner and children understand this rule: don’t let them assume that you are available to them just because you are physically at home. Tell them when you will be unavailable and when you will spend time with them. Even the youngest children can be taught to follow a schedule and there is certainly no excuse for older children (or your partner) to disrupt your work.

Tell your friends and family what hours you have set as your business hours and inform them that you will not be able to take phone calls or receive visitors during those times. Make sure you switch the phone over to the answering machine while you are working, so you won’t be tempted to take any calls. If people turn up unannounced while you are working, make sure you tell them (nicely) that you can’t spend much time with them because you have to work, but you would love to set a mutually convenient time to get together.

If you are worried that making visitors feel unwelcome is rude, consider whether it was polite of them to turn up uninvited in the first place, particularly when you had told them that would be inconvenient. True friends will understand your position and, after all, if you had a job outside the home, they wouldn’t expect you to be able to entertain visitors there.

Avoiding temptation is a lot easier than having to resist it. Save yourself the struggle: employ avoidance strategies, and use the energy you will conserve in more positive ways.

To lose weight easily there are many different things which we can do. In reality, although we tend to search for new and revolutionary ways in which to lose weight without making any effort, we know the basics of what is required of us. Losing weight means cutting down on calories, sweet things, fatty foods and alcohol. Exercise is also required so as to burn off calories.

To lose weight successfully you either have to eat fewer calories or burn more of them. Unless you do this you don’t really expect to lose weight. Instead of trying to get away from these inescapable facts or trying to find a way around them, wouldn’t it be better to simply search for weight loss tips which help you to adapt your eating habits and lifestyle to live within this reality?

Sometimes the simplest weight loss tips end up proving to be the best. This makes sense as those that are simplest are the easiest to put into practice and also easiest to maintain. One weight loss tip which I am sure we have all heard before is to drink two large glasses of water before you eat your meals. Now this is certainly pretty simple to do and neither does it cost anything.

If you are reading this article you presumably want to lose weight. And you have probably heard that drinking water before a meal will help you to feel full, and therefore to eat less. My question to you then is did you try this? Have you personally set about drinking two glasses of water before your meals and has it become a habit; is this now part of your lifestyle?

I would wager a bet that most overweight people do not in fact do this despite the fact they have been told that it will help them to lose weight. There’s probably one main reason for this; because to implement this weight loss tip alone will probably not make a sufficient enough impression upon the weight you want to lose; You don’t lose weight easily or quickly enough for your liking solely by drinking more water.

Another reason may perhaps be that you never believed it to be true. But recent research carried out by the American Chemical Society has shown its efficacy in assisting people to lose weight more easily. In a randomized study carried out over a period of twelve weeks, those dieters who drank water before meals lost on average almost 5 pounds more than those who were on the same low calorie diet but did not drink water before meals.

You may feel that five pounds in weight is not that much extra to lose in a twelve week period. But in reality every little bit helps. And let’s face it, nobody could say that it’s difficult to drink water could they? And if you just did this for another 12 weeks that would add up to losing 10 pounds in weight altogether, which equates to being able to wear a whole size smaller in clothes…just by drinking water so that you feel fuller before you start to eat.

How many other seemingly insignificant weight loss tips are there which you might have ignored or overlooked, because they wouldn’t alone make a significant enough difference upon your weight? Imagine how easily you could lose weight if you implemented two or three of these simple and easily effected lifestyle changes. You can lose weight easily by drinking water. You can lose weight easily by taking the stairs instead of the elevator. You can lose weight more easily by doing any number of little things. All you have to do is decide to do them.