Having a home-based business is a fantastic opportunity. I know for me, it was absolutely thrilling to be able to walk a few feet from any direction in my home to my office. I felt like it was both a gift and a dream come true. However, there were a few things I didn’t know when I started that I learned along the way.

Initially, when I began my home business, the ability to multi-task, mixing business and home responsibilities seemed like a great idea and the best way to make use of every minute.

I could build my business (generate an income) and tend to the many things that are part of running any household.

That meant, I could throw in a load of laundry (in-between business calls) and prepare lunch or dinner, while on a conference call. I could also, mop the floor, dust, iron, etc. (while on conference calls too. If I was away from my home office, I could handle business calls while spending time and doing things with my family, because all I would have to do is have the calls from my office phone forwarded over to my cell phone, which I always had with me.

What was I thinking?

The best answer to that question is, “I wasn’t!”

I found myself, after a short period of time, mentally exhausted. I was not being very productive in any area of my life. I felt like I was being pulled and tugged from every direction.

My home business was far from thriving. I was spending more money than I was making, my house was getting next to no cleaning at all, and I wasn’t eating properly to say the least. There was little time for fun things with my family and when I was with them, I was thinking about an array of other things to be done that day, the next day, next week, and next year. Our outings were peppered with incoming phone calls that were business related and I wasn’t able to enjoy my so-called, “family time.”

I was so excited about working from home. It was something I’d been looking forward to for years. How could something I was eager to invite into my life, have turned into something that was anything but exciting?

Where did things go wrong? How could I feel more exhausted working from home than I did when I was employed in a JOB situation, for which I was working more than 40 hours per week?

Things seemed to be going south and going south fast! I was not feeling good about myself, or anything I was doing, and it was time for great big, huge, gigantic change!

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