Often when we start our home business we have visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads.

Or at least visions of happy days working at our own pace and being our own boss in a relaxed and creative atmosphere. I know I did.

Work at home overwhelm can make your work at home dream seem just like that… a dream.

Or even worse, a nightmare.

ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM WORK AT HOME OVERWHELM?

Here are 10 signs.

1. You get a tingle of unease when you think of all of the things you should be doing today and of all the things left undone.

2. You can’t find things when you need them. You do however find them weeks later under a pile of something else that was missing when you needed it.

3. Your business is starting to look more like a ball and chain. A bottomless pit of obligations and duties that are never done.

4. You are losing your spark. For your business, your family and your life in general. You are just too tired to have one.

5. You avoid working at any opportunity. Any excuse is a good one not to have to deal with the piles, the emails, the reminders.

6. You are working almost every waking hour. Your family has come to know you as the coat rack in front of the computer. You just know that someday you will get everything done and the real fun will start.

7. You no longer feel a sense of accomplishment. Of moving forward. You feel instead a sense of futility. Of wishing you were working at McDonald’s so that you can relax.

8. The idea of taking a day off, a weekend off or going on holiday is ludicrous. There is just too much to do. Things could topple in a few hours of leisure, never mind a week. Impossible.

9. You are losing good income opportunities and connections because you are not prepared or because you simply don’t have time to follow up on them.

10. In short you are tired, uninspired and wondering what you were thinking when you decided to take the route of self fulfillment by working at home.

If you are showing signs of work at home overwhelm, it doesn’t mean that you have to give up.

These signs are showing you that you do need to make some changes.

Take some time to examine your business, your methods and your resources.

Sometimes one small change can make all of the difference.

Sometimes you need to work them in, one by one.

The important thing is that you take the time to make them if you want long term success.

Put on your thinking cap and do a little brainstorming.

What can you do today if you are feeling overwhelmed with your work at home business?

Share your ideas here, we’d love to hear them!