When your home is your office

Good article!

I don't find it hard to discipline myself or motivate myself working from home.

Unfortunately though, my family and friends think that because I am at home it's fine to call in for a cuppa and chat or a chat on the phone!

But eureka! I have solved this ( I think)! I move my car away from the house and they think I am out and I let the house line-land be picked up by the answer machine and if it's important I call them back. Sneaky but it works

Great advice, I always find a good lock on the office door keeps the rest of the family at arms length

I have worked for 5 years from home - selling online. It was less overheads and I could work in my own time but once we got bigger we had to move out as my business was taking over my whole house ! I find I am more disciplined and when I come home I can leave my work at my workplace ( my shop).

I found i t great working from home, you have more time to spend doing your job and of course your family...

Good one i also have been working from home by taking freelance small projects which were easier to be done from home.

Great blog, thanks for sharing this and some of your tips I will need these tips someday. When I start my carrier as a freelancer doing web design. Just for now I'm dedicated to learn graphics design.

This is a great piece and blog, I work from home and have done so for the last 12 months on an employed basis, I got a little bit bored of the mundane 9-5 desk job and decided to be a 'travelling salesman' as it were. I work in Insurance and I always found that people buy from people, so if your office is 40 miles away all of your clients/prospects wont come to you, so you take your office to them!

I agree with some of the comments above regarding being disciplined. I have only one way of judging myself on whether I am making use of my time properly and that is with my golf handicap. Its 11 at the minute and if it gets to single figures I spend too much time on the golf course...

Hope my boss isnt on this forum!

Working from home definitely takes some getting used to; my immediate reaction when I first began was to delve into the dangerous world of daytime tv. Avoid at all costs I say! Now however I've learned to discipline myself, it just takes some practice I think and it's important to find a routine which suits you.

lol, daytime TV would motivate me to work, or drive me to drink