A home based business comes with the biggest freedom of being able to schedule your own working hours. This means you are free to work whenever you want. However, this freedom can often be taken for granted and in turn gets transformed into the biggest nightmare for most home based business owners. When you get the liberty to do things whenever you wan to, trivial things get done first and things which are most important often take a backseat. Hence, scheduling your tasks well in advance is critical for the success of your home based business.When you have lot of things to do, prioritizing is very important. For example, you can check emails, and other lesser important things at the end of the day and do creative things, which are most important to the success of your home based business, when you start your day. Doing things vice-versa leaves you with minimum energy and motivation towards the ends, which is unhelpful to doing creative and vital things.Put off or stay away from all sources that can distract you during working hours. For example, emails, phones, answering the door, etc. Hence it’s very critical to dedicate a separate room for your office. If you have children, then you may also want to schedule your work hours when they leave for school. In the same way, you can group similar tasks in your home based business too. Rather than frequently checking and replying to emails every 2 hours, you can devote fixed time for this purpose somewhere during the end of your work day. Not only will this help you manage time effectively, you can also keep yourself from getting distracted from important tasks.No amount of planning and scheduling can be successful unless you stick to it. When you work all alone and there is no one to supervise your every move, it becomes extremely difficult to stick to a routine. The freedom that comes with a home based business can often be taken for granted and misused. You must maintain a discipline as that is the single most important factor that will help make your home based business a success.