This is a guest post by Helene K. Liatsos, president and founder of Home Office Management Experts. Helene has worked in the corporate jungle for many years before realizing that working from home can reap equally lucrative results; therefore she started H.O.M.E. (Home Office Management Experts).

Helene has taken some time out of her busy schedule to write a guest post for us. In this post she shares a typical day of a home-based business owner. 

We talk about balancing our professional life with our personal life and we certainly mean well, but sometimes it just becomes a flurry of activity trying to get everything done and you don't have time to measure if you are spending more time in one area than another....so I share with you a typical day - or should I say what yesterday was like for me...awake at 5:30am...mad at myself for waking up so early for no reason...go to desk and check e-mails...make coffee...back to desk to answer e-mails....shower, dress and tidy up bedroom...quick breakfast...check e-mails once again...make two calls back East to secure speakers for my radio show...kiss husband goodbye and out the door I go. 

See one client about the financial report I'm doing that he needs for his client; stop at office supply store to get toner; two calls in the car from potential speakers about radio show date availability; stop at mail box center to pick up mail; lunch at my nephew's restaurant - had to go there anyway since I manage the finances for him; meeting with another client about past due taxes and how best to contact the authorities; meeting with a potential new client to start-up her cleaning services businesses; stop at grocery store for needed items; back to home-office; changed toner and printed materials needed for next day's client; wrote out outline for next week's radio show; answered e-mails and threw chicken in the pot for dinner. Talked with my husband for a few minutes to go over some future travel plans - as I cooked dinner and he did laundry. After dinner, had phone call from website people  about changes I need made and then Josh, my intern came over to show me what progress he made on the projects I gave him to do for extra college credit. Fell asleep on couch. Hard to determine where I worked the hardest - it kinda all flows together after awhile.

 All I know is I love what I do....each day is different, cause I plan it that way. I look at the things I need to do and outline the driving route I need to take to get everything done....of course, I can't predict traffic problems nor client forgetting our meeting or running late which makes me late, but I can predict that I would never go back to a nine to five routine for all the money in the world! I would rather work 5:30am to 9:00pm for myself! I love what I do and live the life I love! I can show you how to do it! 

Contact Me: helene@thehome-office.com

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