While I love the idea of working at home without becoming overworked, I don’t believe it’s possible really!
I’d love to be able to follow a six step plan to becoming more organized and more productive in lesser time – but the reality is, when you work from home and you’re working for yourself, you’re more likely to become an all out, full blow workaholic.
Every week, I use my favorite blogging tool, BlogDesk. I develop posts for various blogs and post date them – hoping to free up some time so I can step outside my office and enjoy some time away.
What ultimately happens is I will inevitably find ways of filling that extra time – or ways of filling the time find me.
While I admit, my biggest downfall is that I tend to want to take care of business before I forget.
In the time it would take me to make a reminder entry in my calendar, I always think in just as much time or slightly more, I can get the task completed and cleared away.
I do love working from home, I truly do! But for anyone who thinks it’s all a bed of roses and that it will free up so much more time, think again! If you’re planning on being anything more than a hobbyprenuer – you might want to think again and keep your day job. At least there you can walk away after putting in 8 hours.
I’m not complaining one bit, I wouldn’t trade my position for anything in the world, but for people to call me up and expect me to teach them what I *do* in an hour and them go home and duplicate my business and my profit, it’s just not going to happen.
What’s more, once you begin to work from home, you have to develop a plan on how you’ll handle those people who think just because you work from home, you’re not working or you’re available to do things like babysit. A plan like the one on the image above is a great place to start 
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Oh this is so true. You work more when you are working from home because it’s too easy to do more. The hard part is having enough discipline to get away! And you are right about others not really understanding that you ARE working.
i do agree also…sometimes my home based work will make me work more then 8 hours, more than the usual office working hour.
I myself have given up on any chance of ever having any type of organization when it comes to working from home.
I’ve decided that instead of fighting for ways to make organization work – that I’ll just do what I can, when I can, and when I get to it is when it will happen.
“While I love the idea of working at home without becoming overworked, I don’t believe it’s possible really!”
Ahhh!! That’s your problem right there
! You can have the balance you seek if you really want to. It may not be easy, but it’s possible. The place to start is shifting your belief to one where it is possible in the first place. From there, things will get much easier.
If you are interested in reading more on this topic, have a read of my blog at http://www.scottfusco.net
Scott Fusco, coach
It is hard to strike a balance. Walking away from the work is the hard part, since it is always there. But I find if my work time blends with my personal “work” time (household stuff), then I am not very efficient at either. I get far more done on each front if I set time limits and boundaries.