FAQs – How To Work From Home Working from home is becoming more and more common place. Whether this is stuffing envelopes, proof reading or as an e-business the number of people working from home is growing with people’s needs for flexibility. In response, companies are becoming more flexible with their employees and more businesses are being run from home. Although this is often an exciting time of new opportunities and freedom, people often do not receive the advice to work from home they need. It can be difficult to stay disciplined and achieve the success of earning that extra income or time freedom. To aid your new adventure, here are some frequently asked questions to help you work from home and achieve the success you deserve. How do I make sure I get work done? The answer is simply, discipline. Identify when you work well and when you don’t. Structure your day around this so that you are as productive as possible. Once you have this schedule, stick to it! Taking regular breaks can help too. As long as you are focusing when you need to get the work done. Yes, but I keep getting distracted. How do I stay focused? Create an area where you can work. So look at this as a designated area where you can focus on work. Move this away from the kids, the pets and the TV. Separate your work from your home by shutting a door to all the things you love, enabling you to get into the right frame of mind and get the job done. How do i stop my friends and family from distracting me? This is common too. Try sharing what you are doing with your friends and family. This ensures that they know when it is work time and when it is time to play. Otherwise, they may expect you to start doing chores or helping them out in your valuable work time. How do I know when I have done enough work for the day? Without a boss looking over your shoulder it can be hard to know when you have done enough. Remember you are your employer and employee. Set yourself some targets for the day and work towards them. This enables you to appraise your own performance. If you are missing your targets ask yourself why. You can change the way you do something to make yourself more efficient the next time you do it. How do I stop myself from overworking? When you finish for the day don’t go back to your work again. Use the time to relax and refocus your energies. Use the time you have scheduled to do work and the rest as free time. After all, this is why you chose to work from home – To get more time freedom? Write anything down on a pad and come back to it tomorrow in your ‘work’ frame of mind. I often feel guilty working from home and don’t have any breaks? Ovid said “Take rest; A field that has rested gives a beautiful crop”. Just because you don’t have a specific time to go to lunch now you still need to rest. Having plenty of rest is a great way of making sure that you stay in tip top condition when you are working. Allowing you to be more productive when you work from home than if you were in an office. How do I stay positive without someone there to motivate me? We all have those days when it gets on top of us. We want to throw in the towel for the day. This is easy to do when you are at home. Instead, take a quick break. Refocus on what you need to do and get straight back on
that task. It is too easy to quit when you don’t have a boss to answer to. To be successful you need to keep going. How do I get better at what I am doing without anyone to tell me otherwise? Make sure you know how you are doing. Give yourself regular appraisals when you work from home and track your progress. You are your boss and the employee so be honest so that you can make the changes going forward to make it better in the future. Ask family members or friends for their input, especially if they are close to your work. They can add a perspective that you cannot.
Working from home is not always as easy as it firsts suggests. Keep focused on your task in hand and set yourself some rules. If you can do this, you will really unleash the power of working from home and how you can turn this into true ‘life’ success.
Jon-Marc Spatcher is an internet marketer and mentor. He worked his way up the financial services corporate ladder before deciding that it was no longer for him he set up his own online business. Since this life changing decision he has ‘worked’ from home trying to inspire and educate others to leverage the power of the internet and generate traffic and income to achieve their own success. Jon-Marc enjoys socialising, football, golf and generally any sport going. He is a keen networker and enjoys the simple delights of family and friends. Most of all, he believes in positivity and living life to the full. For a FREE 7 DAY BOOTCAMP visit Jon-Marc's website where you can receive a free set of video marketing tips which will show you how to market on the internet and improve your chances of online success. This will also give you unique access to all his latest blog posts. Alternatively, catch up with his previous posts here.