Most of the time I love having a home business. It’s fun and challenging. But sometimes burnout strikes.

This particular bout has little enough to do with my business in a lot of ways. It has a lot more to do with frustration with all the getting ready for my sister’s upcoming wedding. All the preparation work has taken so much time (I’m a bridesmaid), and often I’m just wiped out by the time I can sit and work.

Add in a daughter starting kindergarten and a son going into speech therapy, and distractions abound. It’s hard to be motivated when you’re tired. Much easier to kick back and mess around on the computer than actually work.

But to keep a home business going, you have to get work done.

One of the things that helps me most is to have definite goals for the day. When I’ve had a lot of things to do outside the home, I minimize the business goals, but I do often have some, even if it’s just taking a little forum time or writing a single article.

Also take time for you, to ease the frustration. My current schedule has required far too much time out and about for my tastes in business, but it’s been fun on its own level. Then again, it has reminded me why I hate shoe shopping so much. Finally had to buy the shoes for my dress online, thank you very much.

I’m most productive when I have no one, NO ONE, around me. This is hard to get in my home, and if I’m feeling frustrated it’s what I absolutely need in order to work. So sometimes I have to ask for the time I need to work. One of the challenges of not having the room for a home office with a door.

Any time you start feeling burnt out, start thinking about what’s causing it. You can get past it; you just need to figure out what the root cause is and get yourself going all over again.

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