Avoiding Disaster From Working at Home
Few people are prepared for the opportunity to work at home. People who work from home have to be prepared once they are given that opportunity though or disaster can strike quickly. Decision you make as you sit up your home based office can help eliminate those crisis.
Whether you are telecommuting from a job or if you are starting a work from home business, you must separate your home life and your work life. Not doing so will cause distractions in each and neither will survive.
The first area to look at is to build a schedule of when you are working and when you are not. You will not be able to just write out a calendar the first day you start but you will grow a schedule that helps you be the most productive. First you must remember that you have to have time when you are not working. At home offices cause us many times to work all the time, in other cases it causes us to not work enough. Define how many hours a day you are going to work. Remember that starting a new business will require more hours than a person telecommuting. No matter what time these hours are do not work more than those hours. You must give your personal life attention as well.
Next, you must have a defined work space so that your mind knows that you are at work. Sitting in front of the TV and trying to work sends mixed signals to your brain and is very distracting. You must also let anyone that comes into your house know that when you are in your work space that you are working and that is just like if you were downtown at a place of employment. Most people don't understand how the distraction that may only seem like a few minutes can distract you for hours. Build those internal walls and live inside them during work hours.
Your space must be comfortable for you to work with limited distractions. Soft music is good, talk radio, maybe not so good. remember your focus is work and building a business that will allow you to work less and less later on and make more money as you streamline your work from home. You must have a comfortable chair that will allow you to work the long hours to begin. Next you must have plenty of work space that you keep organized. If possible, make it somewhere you don't have to pack everything up when you are done and unpack everything when you are ready to begin.
Working from home takes away the distraction of co-workers who interrupt your day at the office. The downside to this is the fact that you are isolated from positive influences of having people to reinforce what you are doing. Build a network of people that you communicate with to keep your social contact. Set up specific times when you will communicate with each other. Do not let it be just whenever. Ideally make it a conference call and have several like minded individual on the the call that should last only 10-15 minutes a day.
Lastly, while you are sitting at your desk smile. Realize how many people would love to be doing what you are doing. How many millions see ads in magazines and on TV showing people working somewhere besides an office and wish that was them. You are doing it, smile because you have the secret they want.
Becky has been a business owner and Registered nurse for over 35 years. She brings two successful careers in focus by helping others reach success. She and her husband are currently restoring a 160 old home in east central Alabama.
Whether you are telecommuting from a job or if you are starting a work from home business, you must separate your home life and your work life. Not doing so will cause distractions in each and neither will survive.
The first area to look at is to build a schedule of when you are working and when you are not. You will not be able to just write out a calendar the first day you start but you will grow a schedule that helps you be the most productive. First you must remember that you have to have time when you are not working. At home offices cause us many times to work all the time, in other cases it causes us to not work enough. Define how many hours a day you are going to work. Remember that starting a new business will require more hours than a person telecommuting. No matter what time these hours are do not work more than those hours. You must give your personal life attention as well.
Next, you must have a defined work space so that your mind knows that you are at work. Sitting in front of the TV and trying to work sends mixed signals to your brain and is very distracting. You must also let anyone that comes into your house know that when you are in your work space that you are working and that is just like if you were downtown at a place of employment. Most people don't understand how the distraction that may only seem like a few minutes can distract you for hours. Build those internal walls and live inside them during work hours.
Your space must be comfortable for you to work with limited distractions. Soft music is good, talk radio, maybe not so good. remember your focus is work and building a business that will allow you to work less and less later on and make more money as you streamline your work from home. You must have a comfortable chair that will allow you to work the long hours to begin. Next you must have plenty of work space that you keep organized. If possible, make it somewhere you don't have to pack everything up when you are done and unpack everything when you are ready to begin.
Working from home takes away the distraction of co-workers who interrupt your day at the office. The downside to this is the fact that you are isolated from positive influences of having people to reinforce what you are doing. Build a network of people that you communicate with to keep your social contact. Set up specific times when you will communicate with each other. Do not let it be just whenever. Ideally make it a conference call and have several like minded individual on the the call that should last only 10-15 minutes a day.
Lastly, while you are sitting at your desk smile. Realize how many people would love to be doing what you are doing. How many millions see ads in magazines and on TV showing people working somewhere besides an office and wish that was them. You are doing it, smile because you have the secret they want.
Becky has been a business owner and Registered nurse for over 35 years. She brings two successful careers in focus by helping others reach success. She and her husband are currently restoring a 160 old home in east central Alabama.
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