1. Determine what hours and days of the week you will be working. When you are working for yourself and from a home office you basically have 24 hours 7 days a week available as your workweek. Sure, some of your time may need to fall within a “normal” workweek to accommodate meeting with clients and networking but for the most part you can work whenever you like. What freedom. Right? Well it can be, but what I have found is that if you don’t decide what time of the day and/or days of the week you are going to work that it is very difficult to establish a routine. Without a routine, you have no set schedule and without a set schedule you work till 2 a.m. and then try to go to bed when your brain is still racing with all the “new” ideas you want to try. Remember, you still need to take care of yourself and get your required number of hours of sleep. You don’t want to neglect that because if you are sick, you aren’t generating business, and if you aren’t generating business you don’t have income (no such things as paid sick days when you are self-employed). I never had a problem with time management at work and believe what I have been experiencing is not a problem with time management but rather what part of the day am I going to consider my work day.