Working And Living Are Two Different Things, Don’t Blur Them Together!
When you’re at home all the time, people have a way of giving you everything to do, with no regard for your job. It can be very hard indeed to keep your family life separate from your business when you work at home — in fact, this is one of the most common reasons home businesses fail, and their owners come away all too glad to get back to the corporate grindstone. If you don’t want to be driven away from home business, here’s what you need to do to keep your family at bay.
Work Time, Home Time.
Make a schedule for when you’re going to work and when you’re not, and stick to it. This doesn’t have to be inflexible — it’s very silly to only work nine to five every day, for example — but it still really needs to be there. Without a plan, you’re inevitably going to go too far one way or the other, and either work far too much or nowhere near enough. You might find it best to a new plan at the start of each month or week, so that you can still respond to changes in circumstances.
Yes, I know it can be difficult to...