I've been an "independent consultant" (you can read that as "unemployed," if you
wish) for a few decades. I also wrote four (or six, depending on how you count
them) books, which involves a lot of working from home, by yourself. Here are
some tips on working from home.
You may not have enough distractions at home. You know home. You are
intimately familiar with everything in it. Familiarity breeds contempt.
If you have access to a young child (or possibly someone with Down's Syndrome
or dementia), they look at the world in a different way. This can be extremely
valuable to you. (Many people will think I am joking about this. I am absolutely
not.) If you work at it, you can take this experience with alternative views and,
with practice, start to look at the world differently, yourself.
You are unsupervised at home. This can be a great advantage. It is possible that
you may simply slack off. However, it is possible that you can look at what you
are doing, and how, and figure out what is actually worth doing.
When you work from home, you can develop an "always on" mindset. This may
come about in two ways. You may be a natural workaholic, and just get stuck in.
Or, you may think that what you are doing is actually important. This can create
a serious and damaging delusion. Once again, look at what you are doing and try
to determine whether it is actually worth doing.
You may feel lonely and isolated at home. Especially if you don't have a spouse
and/or children. Then again, you have the Internet. Good grief! You can talk to
anyone in the world! About all kinds of topics! How can you feel lonely and
isolated? (If all you do on the Internet is surf pr0n, you deserve to be lonely and
isolated.)
If you have a spouse and/or kids, you may feel that you can't be with them. You
may feel that you have to lock yourself in your home office for eight hours a day
and not talk to anyone. That's ridiculous. Talk to them. Play with your kids. Go
for walks. (Stay away from anyone on the street, though.) Make multiple short
blocks of time to lock yourself in your office, if you must. You will be *much*
more productive in one hour, after you've spent some time actually talking to
your spouse and/or playing with your kids. (And, again, how much of what you are
doing at "work" actually needs to be done?)
You may need to be motivated. Why? Isn't your work important or interesting
enough? If that's the case, that should be motivation to find a different job. (You
can search for one on the Internet.)
Get distracted. Look out the window. Talk to someone on the Internet. Talk to
your kids. Clean up your desk or office. You can find some interesting new ideas
...
Don't procrastinate. (At least, not right away.) Do something. Anything really.
If a job looks too big and daunting, do something related to it, to chip away at it.
Create a schedule. It does help. But create it. Don't just impose it on you and
those around you. Find something that works for everyone.
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