Amazingly, I’ve been successfully running a home-based travel business for over 16 years.
Let’s be real, working from home can be challenging. Over the years, I’ve fine-tuned some tried-and-true productivity hacks that allowed me to build a successful destination wedding business, retire my husband from being a teacher to work our business full-time and create a destination wedding business course to help my fellow romance travel specialists make money selling destination wedding travel.
In this blog post, I’ll share strategies for solopreneurs like you to move the needle in your business and break free from the cycle of working all day yet feeling like you’ve accomplished nothing.
Travel Advisor Productivity Hacks
Before diving in, I must point out that change begins with you. If you genuinely want to change how productive you are in running your at-home travel business, you must be willing to change.
Are you ready?
🌟 Establish a Routine!
Your routine is a key to your success and requires discipline. It’s not about whether you feel like it or not, you must establish a routine and stick with it. Maybe you need to create a mindset as if you are physically going to work.
This may look like getting up early, working out, showering, getting dressed, and getting to your office by a certain time. No excuses for being late because of traffic or weather when you work from home!
🌟 Master Your High Energy Times
We all have certain times of the day when we’re at our peak – whether it’s morning, afternoon, or evening. Identify when you’re most alert and focused and schedule your most demanding tasks during those windows.
For me, I can get twice as much done in the morning compared to the afternoon. So, I schedule big projects or creative work for the morning and the less demanding tasks that don’t take as much brain power, like responding to emails, customer service, invoicing, and responding to comments on social for those lull times.
🌟 Plan Your Day Like a Pro
I use a planner daily and try to fill this out early in the morning before I start my workday. Sometimes, I’ll do this the evening before, and this is also a good practice as it will allow you to leave your workday feeling accomplished and mentally done for the day. Knowing exactly what you need to work on each day will give you peace and will help you get focused if you ever get off track.
- Use your planner to write out the three most important things to do that day.
- Schedule your day just like you would at a traditional workplace. Even schedule the meetings for yourself like exercise, a mental break, and miscellaneous tasks because you never know what could come up. Don’t over-schedule!
🌟 Determine Your Start Time and End Time
Working to the clock will help you be more productive and ensure you have a healthy work-life balance. Having a mindset that you’ll make up for it later is a recipe for burnout and bitterness. You will use up all the time you give yourself. If you give yourself a day, you’ll use the day. If you give yourself an hour, you’ll use the hour! Be mindful of this and don’t baby yourself.
🌟 Conquer the Inbox Chaos
If you feel like your inbox is a black hole sucking up all your time and energy, then you’ve likely created a habit of checking your emails as a priority.
Depending on your job responsibilities and how communication happens within your company, I don’t advise opening your inbox first thing. You must establish the three most important things to do and start working on those first. Schedule your inbox times on your planner.
Final Thoughts
I believe that prioritizing is the cornerstone of productivity, and productivity is what ultimately shapes a healthy work-life balance.
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