Keeping Motivated

You just got to keep going. Find little victories to make it all seem worthwhile. If things are quiet get yourself on some more forums and do some posts and responses. Spend a solid 30 minutes of 1 hour just posting and consider that a good victory as all of that is free marketing.

I have an offer this week to an exchange of services with a guy I spoke to 4 months ago on my of the forums. He came back to me out of the blue and said that he remembered the advice I gave him so wanted to talk about it.

Sean makes me nervous, on a post about motivation, he stands there with a baseball bat <gulp>

Think he must be more stick than carrot Steve!

I'd be interested in how many of you guys work from home. I started working freelance 6 years ago and getting motivated when working from home is probably even more difficult as there's always distractions. I just got it together and my wife retired and now she's at home there's even more distractions. It's not easy working on your own either. Solitary confinement is used as a punishment in prisons. The plus side though is that when it's sunny and you don't have a lot of work on, you can go and sit on the patio with a glass of red wine :-)

I work from home, on my own, and it drives me a little bit nuts. But it beats the pants off sitting at home, on my own, staring into space with my brain dribbling out of my ears.

I often find myself caught in a bit of a paradox. On the one hand, I hate having tasks "hanging over me" so I tend to clear the decks as soon as stuff comes in (personal bugbear: when a letter arrives in the Saturday post requiring me to call a company whose phone lines are only open Mon-Fri, it irks me all weekend). On the other hand, I hate not having anything to get on with. That's where online networking has saved my sanity. It counts as both a productive work activity and social interaction - plus I can do as much or as little of it as fits around my other tasks.

Cheers been a bad week for the car 3 crashes well 2 people went into me and I went into someone else and also someone broke into my car and pup paper in my air intake

But on the upside a day spent polishing it and it looks quite clean!

As yee know young Mary...you do make a difference by simply contributing. Long may you.

Mike