So, choosing a business topic is the most important thing you can do. I’ve chosen a few over the years and all of them have been because of my passion for the overall topic, not just because I thought I could make money at it.  Making money is pretty important, but being able to stick to it, and liking what you do everyday is what just might determine how well you do! Check out this article about how to choose business topics that really fit with your passion, your ideals, and your personality.

When you work from home, it’s important to choose a niche that suits your passions.  Working in any niche can be more challenging when you don’t like what you’re doing. But when you love what you’re doing, you wake up in the mornings with the energy and the enthusiasm to get to work.

Take a few minutes and consider which niches might fit with your passions. If you’re not sure what your passions are, imagine you have a whole day to yourself. What do you spend it doing?

Would you spend it perfecting new recipes? Exploring your city? Writing movie reviews? If you’re still having trouble, look at your existing hobbies. What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? What do you spend your money on?

Taking a moment to consider what you love doing will help you decide which business topic might be the best fit for you. Or maybe you recently discovered something else that you’re passionate about.

Now, what do you do? Begin reading and researching. Fully immerse yourself in your chosen business topics.

• Sign up for every email list that you can.
• Spend time browsing websites – both of experts and amateurs alike.
• Browse forums on the topic.
• Check out social groups on Facebook and Linked in (or other social media sites).

You have a list of possible business topics now, don’t you? If so, it’s time to trim that list. Par it down to your top three. These three should be your main choices – the niches you have the most interest in.

Don’t just go by income level (although you should consider that, too). Just remember when your business topics interests you, it shows to your customers and when you’re only in it for the profit you can make, that shows too. Choose a topic that you can earn an income in and gain personal satisfaction from.

Once you know which business topics are right for you, take a minute and ask yourself these questions:

• What’s not being covered?
• Which audiences are being ignored?
• Who are the rising stars on the horizon and how will they change the niche?
• How is that industry changing, or how has it changed recently?

Since you already have an interest in these niches, you’ll be better at getting consumers that other entrepreneurs are missing. It pays off in big ways to know the current issues and events in your niche.

Now that you’ve thought about the business topics that fit your passions, take a few days to research them more. Or, take a week per topic to do your research.

Why? It may be because the big jobs seem too overwhelming to tackle, and you think it’s not worth even trying if you don’t have a whole week to dedicate to that one job.

With that mentality, you’re right – it will never get done! So let’s change the way you look at big cleaning jobs. To make big cleaning jobs more doable, break them into doable bits. Yes, it’s worth it – don’t be tempted to think that there’s no use doing anything if you can’t do it all at once. Here are some tips on how to break up those big jobs into small tasks.

Motivate the Family

Whether it’s cleaning out the garage, attic, or basement, or cleaning out all the clutter from the bedrooms, big jobs are best done as a group effort. It’s almost never a case of one person’s stuff – nearly everyone in the family has mess somewhere, so delegating and asking each person to take care of his or her own mess is a start toward making it more doable.

Motivational tips include:

* Point out how much neat stuff you’ll find when you clean out – “I was wondering where I put that” or “I wondered what happened to that” are common exclamations when cleaning!

* Note the unsanitary and even unsafe conditions that can come with accumulated clutter – vermin can infest it, mold can cover it, and clutter (especially paper) can be a fire hazard.

* Offer incentives like going out for dessert after dinner or having a fun take-out food and game/movie night.

 Cleaning Party

For big jobs like cleaning out the basement or garage, it helps to elicit help from others. Make specific to-do lists and hand them out to your workers, breaking the big job down into smaller ones that can be done by individuals. And make sure you repay them: give out “coupons” for cleaning help at their house that you can come and do, and/or have everyone stay for dinner. Have a big cake or other special dessert to celebrate and thank them.

List the Tasks Required

Even if you are not hosting a cleaning party, you can make a list of tasks as if you were. Pretend you are managing the big cleaning job and you have to assign tasks to employees (this can help if you are eliciting help from family members, too). Here is a sample list of tasks that might go into a big cleaning job, such as cleaning out the basement:

* Go through boxes – two boxes per person at a time – and throw out or donate what is not needed.

* Consolidate “keeper” items into boxes and plastic bins.

* Stack bins against the wall and label their contents.

* Sweep and/or vacuum basement floor.

* Call junk hauling service to take care of big items that need to be scrapped.

* Store items to donate in another room, and schedule a trip or trips to the second-hand store.

Give Yourself Time

If you are doing things in steps, it’s going to take a bit. Give yourself time; anything you do is working toward getting the big job done. And remember, it’s been sitting undone for so long that another few months or weeks won’t hurt!

Before you do, get organized.

Find each customers name and mailing address. Then organize by alphabet, or most recent order, or highest amount of orders. Whatever criteria is most important to you.

Figure out what you want to send. Just a greeting and thank you, or a coupon code or special gift? Again, it’s up you to to figure out what fits best with your company brand and what you want to encourage from you customers and clients.

Now that you know what you want to send and who you are sending it to, go mail them!

For the new year, try a greeting card organizer. What would you like to remind or thank you customers for during the year? Their birthday? Their anniversary of their first order with you? 

A card organizer would look like a regular notebook or accordion file, but would list the important dates, names and addresses of the client for that month. So, you can pull out the list and a card and then send it out at the beginning of each month. Nothing like planning ahead! Everything will be right where you need it and you won’t have to search through a ton of info or paperwork to find who gets what and when. 

It’s easy to let distractions in when you really need to be working on your time sensitive projects. Shiney object syndrome and “Hey, look, a sqirrel”! are what most people call it, but I call it  not getting your sh** done! 

Here’s 6 tips to stay on track and quit being sidetracked from your task. 

1. Don’t let your project loom over you.
2. Consider what might distract you, and avoid it.
3. Set up structures to avoid the disctraction. (turn off twitter/FB/email while working)
4. Make a master list of what has to be done and when.
5. Define each sub-task, and set times to begin and end. 
6. If you’re running out of time, then get creative and begin trimming tasks.

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