Remember co-workers? Those annoying people who you’re forced to share an office with — some of them friends, but most of them insufferable. If you’re anything like me, one of reasons for starting a home business was to get away from these people. And yet, when you do work at home all day, every day, you might find that you start to miss that kind of companionship, and feel more than a little lonely.
All Alone…
Picture the scene. You get up for another day of work. Your husband or wife has already left, since they have to get up earlier to commute to their job. Your children are at school. All the neighbours are at work. Your house feels deserted, and your neighbourhood feels like a ghost town.
It’s all too easy to become enormously demotivated in this situation, and to begin to feel like your work is pointless. Worse, when you get stuck or something bad happens, you have no-one to turn to — at work, you were all in it together, but now it’s just you, out on your own.
Even if you don’t feel like it’s affecting you, the lack of human interaction could be causing you quite a few problems. Ask...