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As tempting as it may be to use, Windex or any similar type product can be a hazard to use in the vicinity of food products, particularly cutting boards. If you do not have the proper sanitizer available, a certain “secret” common household item will suffice. Please read on to find out how you can keep your guests safe!

Our web community for business flight attendants can be frequently found discussing proper food handling and food safety tips. One lively discussion a few years back surrounded the proper way of cleaning a cutting board. Might I add that the food preparing area of the typical business jet galley is about the size of a two-by-four? Thus, food can easily get into contact with the wrong products if extra care is not taken.

In the conversation, one of our members remarked that she had cleaned her cutting board with Windex. Well, the ensuing responses to her comment nearly caused an online riot as many of our veteran fliers responded by emphatically stating that products such 409, Fantastik, and Windex can all be harmful if ingested. These and similar products contain high levels of white spirits or similar type toxins, something you never want your guests to come in contact with. These products typically carry warning labels that say something like the following, “Do not ingest even in small quantities. Non-food safe.”

Our beloved and uniformed newbie member was aghast, not at the replies, but at realizing that she had cleaned her cutting boards not once, not twice, but at the very least four or five times using Windex! Although no illnesses were reported because of her error, she quickly amended her cleaning methods from that point forward to use a special sanitizer designed for the safe cleaning of her cutting board. Naturally, all of our members were thankful that she was no longer a potential poisoner of the jet set crowd.

So, just what is that little “secret” common household item that can be used when the proper cleaning agent is no longer available? Actually, there are two: diluted white wine vinegar or . . . vodka! Yes, vodka can be used, but it does have the tendency of altering the taste of subsequent dishes . . . not necessarily a bad thing, but it does leave a residue. The recommendation, of course, is to have white wine vinegar on hand if a sanitizer is not readily available.

Please, please use the previously recommended cleaning agents only on surfaces that do not come into contact with food. You may not kill your guests, but you can certainly make them very ill by using the inappropriate products.

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Time Management is one of the hardest but more profitable things are business owner can do. Some small changes to a persons diary and liftstyle can reap some amazing results.

More and more home based business owners are getting excited as they realize they can actually work less hours and make more money by following some very simple steps.

So many people start working from home but find that their time is not well utilized and their businesses are not profitable because they are not able to manage their time productively.

When we started to work from home, we found this out the hard way, We wanted to work from home so that we would not miss important events in our families lives, including school, sporting & personal. But what we found was that there always seemed to be something else to steal our time away

Through trial and error we have found some very simple ways to set our diary and give us back our lives.

Below are some suggestions on what can be done to have a profitable business from home and a growing loving family all at the same time. This is what is recommended:

• A diary and calendar is there to give control of peoples lives. They are rules to live life by and should not be broken
• Place God at the top of your priorities. Put the time there in your diary first every day
• Work out with your partner/Spouse what time you need to be spending with them. Put a special time in each week for a “Date night”
• Time for family. Work this out with them. Explain what needs to be done to be successful in the business then work out what time is needed for family success.
• Diarize work time and stick with it. Do not bend. If time has been allocated to call new clients, then do it, don’t do anything else. Training and admin should be another day. If training new home business owners then try to train them on the job.
• Diarize play time and make sure that this is what it is, PLAY or Relaxation….”

The results that have been discussed about following this simple method can be Astounding. By just focusing effort it is like focusing the sun light through a magnifying glass.

So the keys are: Have a diary that has everything planned from family to recreation to packing bags for that next business trip, then sticking to it.

A good diary should be simple to follow and understand. I have my breaks scheduled in along with time to clear my head before coming back into family time.

These are just some small points to help you in working successfully from home. We hope they are of benefit to you.

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James & Kasey Hannan
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James & Kasey Hannan are the owners of http://www.workfromhomeaustralia.com and are Home Based Business experts who have helped thousands of people around the world start and grow successful businesses while working from home.