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It is not easy to balance work at home with housework, childcare, husband, friends, leisure, etc.
Our lives can become out of control, we can feel exhausted, stressed and very unhappy.
However, when we decided to work at home we thought of the many advantages of this option. But on the way we encounter difficulties to be addressed.
It is not enough to have the technological tools that make work easier; we must also be able to organize our time to properly address our many responsibilities.
I found it interesting to share the most common difficulties and propose some alternative solutions.
Our lives can become out of control, we can feel exhausted, stressed and very unhappy.
However, when we decided to work at home we thought of the many advantages of this option. But on the way we encounter difficulties to be addressed.
It is not enough to have the technological tools that make work easier; we must also be able to organize our time to properly address our many responsibilities.
I found it interesting to share the most common difficulties and propose some alternative solutions.
10 TIPS TO ORGANIZE YOUR WORK AT HOME
2. Let your family know and respect your work time at home. So they will learn to not to interrupt or ask you to do things for them during that time. Otherwise, it will take longer to complete your task and you will not have time for your family.
3. Don't forget your habits: if you stay at home, get dressed to look nice and feel better. Jogging suit or sleepwear is not appropriate to think in your work. Well dressed, well received: this also applies working at home. You will see that you are more efficient if your attitude is correct.
4. Look for a good place to work. Comfortable, airy and well lit. Where you can isolate noise and achieve a good level of concentration. The bedroom or living room are probably not the best places.
5. Make achievable goals in a reasonable time. Don't be dismayed or frustrated, fulfil your goals. Set small goals that can actually be performed and do what is necessary to meet your deadlines.
6. Take an agenda: it is part of your organization. You can't trust that you will remember everything. Write and review what you wrote down.
7. Do not lower the rate of job when you not achieve the results you expect. Review, improve, execute new ideas. Soon you will see that the bad weather passes and you make progress anyway.
8. Take a break to clear the mind. After several hours of work you can't think clearly or self-assess what you are doing. Maybe it's time to do some exercise: go for a walk or ride your bike, look at flowers in your garden, etc. You'll see that you come back refreshed and energized.
9. Remember your motivations, why you do what you are doing. Otherwise, when the results are not the best, you're going to disappoint. Keep up your expectations and remember the life you want to experience.
10. Keep any TV as far as possible from your work environment, unless it is part of your work (video editing). Stay as far as possible from social networks during work time, as they occupy and distract.
Any advice?
I'd love to hear if you have more tips that I may forgot, or have any personal experience working from home, you want to share.
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Omanaomamana
Nov 13, 2011 @ 6:30 am | delete
- I needed this info. Thanks.
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WHAT YOU SHOULD NOT DO WORKING AT HOME
I found myself in some of these situations:
- I forgot my grooming, like being at home does not matter how I look. I remember that it is important to have a pleasant appearance to those I love.- Working to much hours and end very tired. I have sleep deprivation and I'm not in a good mood. Respect my work schedule has become a very important aspect.
- No healthy eating: respect times of eat and food prepared with care and affection. "Not only do I cook for others, but I deal with my own welfare." This is something I have to repeat myself from time to time.
- Work on holidays and during vacations. This may work for a while, but in long term you end hating what you do, your children grow up without you know them and your husband got bored long ago. Beware!
- Sedentary lifestyle and lack of exercise. The "brother donkey" in the words of St. Francis of Assisi, requires that we care it. Regular exercise is part of the routine care of the body. Our body is the "house" more important in were we live. Let's try not to abandon us.
What is your worst habit?
The bad habit that has cost me more to change is work excessive hours. I focus and enthusiasm with thus I'm doing, that becomes my only priority. Thank God, my children take me back to reality with their complaints.
What is your worst habit?
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Omanaomamana
Nov 13, 2011 @ 6:30 am | delete
- To smoke when I work.
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TamaraKajari
Nov 28, 2010 @ 10:52 am | delete
- I still tent to end the day without completing the agenda for that day. I'm focussing on that daily discipline these days. But I'm addicted to Squidoo 100% so some discipline shouldn't be a problem:-)
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Tipi
Sep 14, 2010 @ 6:17 pm | delete
- I addicted to Squidoo, that would have to be my worst, but best habit.
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WHAT TO DO WITH CHILDREN
It is important to spend time with your kids and teenagers, talk to them, have fun and supervise the school work. If you organize you can reconcile your role as mother with your WAH.
2. What could be more fun to know that periodically (one day a week, every fortnight or month) we're going out with Mom? Organizes trips and outings (movies, for ice cream or anything else) so that children know they are being privileged and the mother keeps a special time for them.
3. Sacrifice some afternoon inviting friends to your children and organizing fun activity (pyjama party, tallarinata, burgers, film and movies, etc). You will see that other mothers will return the invitation to your child. He will have fun and you have more peace to work.
4. Ask for help to the grandmothers and grandparents: many of them love to receive their grandchildren. You have strong motivations to enable collaboration in training of children. The whole family will be benefit.
5. Set a daily time (may be an hour) that you dedicate only to your children, before bed, when they arrive from school, after dinner, etc. It will become the time of day for the most important conversations. Children will be expectant waiting this time, so it is very important that you respect it. You'll see that you also feel better because you've spent valuable time with your children.
6. Promotes activities for children: siblings need time together. Organize activities that can be made between them. It will be fun and you don't have to pay attention to them while they are busy.
No time to go to the gym?
Do it at home
Do you need to renew your PC?
Entertain your children in a educational way
If you put time limits on use, video games can be a good alternative
Children love craft activities
Remember your priorities.
Family always comes first. Everything else can wait.
Need a business idea to work from home?
Here are several alternatives
Find families staying in their houses students from other countries visiting yours for short and long. You can also host your own.
Sells electronics on herbal products for weight loss and solve problems of indigestion.
You can dedicate a lecture to advise businesses on Social Media. Using Facebook and Twitter for business.
Make a directory of women in your city and have a business with the idea of connecting with the community of women.
If you like the gym, you work as a "personal coach" helping people achieve their fitness goals to get the desired figure.
If you like dance, you teach in your home to small groups or individual partners.
You can specialize in a specific diet to lose weight and offer treatments to your customers in your city.
You can import handicrafts from other countries and sell in exhibitions to do at home or in your home.
If you are a former smoker, you can develop a program that helps people quit smoking.
You can be about massage and natural therapies from home.
7 resources to organize your WAH
- Bubbl.us
- For those who like mind mapping or brainstorming through diagrams, this tool will be useful.
- Google Apps
- Give you many online tools that let you optimize your work.
- Zoho
- Give you many online tools that let you optimize your work.
- Basecamp
- 37 Signals is an interesting option for organizing your work.
- Centraldesktop
- If you do not like the previous option, perhaps you think is more complete or different to organize with other people.
- Buxfer
- Organizes your expenses and finances with this useful tool that allows you to have clearer accounts.
- Simple GTD
- Help to organize working from home.
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