As an entrepreneur there are a ton of things you have to keep an eye on. There’s always new things you learn and want to implement… trouble is doing everything you want to do, all at the same time. That’s where we have to prioritize and make some decisions. Whether it’s about what methods of promotion you’re going to use for your blog, how many backlinks you want to build in a day… you’ve got to decide what’s most important, and find a way to actually do it.

Here’s a few things I’ve used and found helpful to help me prioritize and stay on track.

Planners. I love these planners. They’re done by a fantastic blogger/entrepreneur named Charlie Gilkey. He has annual planners, quartery, monthly, weekly, and daily planners. This helps you see the big picture and bring the big picture into doable daily chunks. I do find his daily action planner works best for me as a weekly planner, but they are awesome.

Accountability. I find it easiest to stick with a plan when I know I am accountable to someone beside me and my 4 year old. I do this in a couple ways… I have an accountability partner that I talk with once or twice a week. We go over the plan and then discuss what we were able to accomplish during the week. I also have the Kiss Club. A great private online community that provides fantastic support and accountability.

Challenges. I love to give myself 7, 14 even 30 day challenges. This works especially well if I’m trying to implement something new. This way it becomes a habit and I end up sticking with it longer.

Organizational tools. These are great in conjunction with the challenges. For instance I’m starting a 30 day backlinking challenge today. I have set up a spread sheet to keep track of the work I do, and where for that challenge. That way, all the information is in one spot and I can easily see it. Next month I can start a new page in my spreadsheet and carry on. Being able to write down what I’ve done helps with accountability, but it also helps me not duplicate work I’ve already done because I forgot or couldn’t remember if I’d done it yet. So that saves time and energy.

Those are some of the tools I use to stay on track in my business. I’d love to hear what you use to keep yourself moving forward… please feel free to share your ideas and tools in the comments section.

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As an affiliate marketer and niche blogger I find myself having to remember a MILLION differnet urls, usernames and passwords.  Which I’m not very good at.

I keep the sites I go to a lot in my favorites bar in Firefox, but it’s a pretty small space for a busy blogger. The usernames and passwords are usually there when I get there, but when they aren’t I’m well . . . screwed.

I can’t even tell you right now, off the top of my head what the username and password is for my flagship internet marketing blog.  I thought making usernames that were similar would be smart, but it’s made the process much more difficult.

So I started writing things down on scraps of paper.  Yeah whatever, that doesn’t work with a 2 year old in the house. All those scraps have been repurposed into toddler art! I then tried using a notebook for all my pertinent information (especially bookmarking info) but I could never find the site I wanted when I wanted it.

I struggled with this for a while. Then one day it occurred to me, and I’m sure I read it somewhere, to save my life I don’t remember or I would give credit where credit is due, to get a rolodex.

Now I don’t mean to fill it up with all the numbers of the important people I know (there aren’t many), although I think the trash guy’s number is in there lol, but I use it to keep track of all my work at home business information.  WordPress site urls, usernames, passwords, affiliate links, hoplinks, hosting account info, all the stuff I need to get through a work day with relative ease ~ at least information wise. I don’t think there is a rolodex that manages toddlers, if anyone knows of one, please let me know!

I am not saying I’m an organized person. In fact, I had to clear all the crap off the top of my rolodex to take a picture of it for this post, but I DO know exactly where my “work stuff” is and how to find it. I have tried online tools like roboform, but it just didn’t make sense to me. It seems a little ironic that I work online and use all these high tech gadgetty kind of things, but when it comes down to it, I really love to write things down on paper.

I’m working with @theflylady to overcome my CHAOS (can’t have anyone over) syndrome and this little rolodex definitely helps get through my work day a little more smoothly and saves me scads of time searching for my information.

I’d love to hear what you do to keep yourself organized working from home.  Give me a tweet @momtohanna or leave me a comment below.