We talked in our last post about giving yourself a break – but there’s a downside too. Too often when folks work at home they think they have far more time than they really do!
What can happen?
The biggest problem for many people is working at home can lead to a lot of wasted time. If you’ve made the decision to work at home you have to be totally committed to working a set number of hours every day – and once you do that you need to stick to it. Whether it’s 3 hours every morning and 3 more every afternoon or 6 hours without a break, you need to decide that for yourself.
Keeping on track
There are tools you can use to make sure you stay on track and focused (or to see how well you’re doing). I like ‘WR Time Tracker’. Here’s what I can do with it – I can track all of my days ‘activities’ and mark them as billable or non-billable (by the way I don’t use this anymore since I joined oDesk) …. but what it allows you to do is to establish your own ‘pattern’.
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Let’s hope that chaos isn’t always a pattern (laughing) though I have to admit I tend to work best in chaos sometimes!
You mean chaos isn’t a pattern?