Time scarcity is one of the top struggles of the home-based entrepreneur.

With work, family, social, household and community commitments, you wonder how anyone can make progress these days in building a home business.

We all have the same 24 hours and the same seven days a week, yet some entrepreneurs seem to cover more ground than others at a much faster pace.

It's not because they don't have children or because they're not working a 40-hour week at a j-o-b. If these business owners were like most other people, they'd have that same time filled with other non-business related obligations and activities.

What sets the movers and shakers apart from the slow and often unsteady is how they manage their events, not their time.

You cannot manage time because it will continue to tick away -- one second at a time. You can't put it on hold or save it for later. Time is beyond your control.

What you can control, however, is the events you say 'yes' to within each minute of every day.

Before you read any further, I'd like you to list three things you absolutely dislike doing ... maybe even HATE doing.

There's no one watching over your shoulder to scold you or shake their head in judgment, so be more honest than you've ever been in your life.

Do you have them listed?

Good.

Now …

Stop doing them.

You heard me right. Stop doing them.

What's the first thought that statement brings to your mind?

"You're nuts." "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!" "Yeah right, maybe in your fairytale world."

If you were able to clearly state three things you don't love to do, there's absolutely no reason why they can't be removed or at the very least, dramatically reduced in your life.

The only thing keeping you tied to those activities is your belief that they HAVE to be done by you. There are always options, however, you can't see them, even when right under your nose.

What's the roadblock?

Your beliefs.

You believe you're the only one that can do them. It's your responsibility, no one else's. It's your role in the family/relationship/community. Your mother did it, grandma did it and great-grandma did it, so you have to do it. It would go against the role you're expected to play in society.

I remember when I made the list of three things I detested doing:

1. cooking

2. grocery shopping

3. personal shopping

I believed I couldn't stop doing them because they were my responsibility. I was groomed to perform these tasks from a young age and was expected to perform them as an adult.

The problem was, they made me miserable and ate up hours of time that could have been spent doing what I loved, building my business.

I hated doing them. They depleted my energy. And I would get upset at the smallest little thing that stole one precious second of the hour or two a night I was left with to work on my business.

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