How Do You Avoid OverWorking when Your Home is Your Office
I moved my home office again. This time, in our house in a quiet subdivision, which I’ve been dying to do but can’t because there wasn’t any Internet connection service provider for that location before. But now that our place finally got the attention of Smart Bro and ComClark, I’m now officially a home-based worker since I now work at our home.
It’s been just about two weeks since I relocated my home office and it’s also been two weeks since I started sleeping at 5 a.m.! The thing is my room is where my home office is. So when I just have to finish something, I can’t just leave to do it some other time, my body keep on bossing me around to check my emails, write blog posts, check articles, etc. And time flies by so fast that I become completely unaware of it until the sun shines.
Pathetic, right? However, the big however is, I don’t know if I should rejoice or what that I lost some of my blogging tasks already. Although I’m sure I’m going to miss it, now I can have some sweet break from keeping up with the quotas and the blog promotion chores. Yes, I’m calling it just a break because I know myself so well that I know I won’t survive too long without more blogging jobs. So yeah, I’m again on the prowl.. for blogging jobs, that is.
But still, I realized that since I moved to a more convenient home office, which is just about two to three seconds away from my bed, I just can’t stop myself from typing and checking and emailing and bloghopping and everything!
I seriously need to be distracted from my job/s. How do you deal with this stuck-in-my-home-office problem, dear work/life balance experts?
Tags: home office, distraction, work at home, busy, blogging job
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Gabs said,
July 19, 2007 @ 5:24 am
What I do is I set priorities. If a project needs to be done urgently (as in life-or-death-for-my-client urgent) I’ll spare no time nor sleep to have it done quickly, just to be done with it. For tasks of lower priority, I either:
- delegate/outsource it to someone else, or
- reserve it for my next “productive time” (hey, we can’t be all that perky for work 24/7, right? =)
I also set a personal boundary as to when does my work time end and when my personal time begins, and vice versa. Having your home office inside your own room has its perks as well as its pitfalls, and the only factor that can decide which of the two will prevail can be summed up in one word: self-discipline.
Gabs
Laura said,
July 19, 2007 @ 9:59 pm
This is a tough one! It’s so easy to work around the clock when you work from home. I agree with Gabs that it’s important to set priorities. I also think that sometimes it’s necessary to turn down jobs when you have too much to do.
Alfa said,
July 20, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
@Gabs,
Having my home office just a few steps away from my bed is currently a posing a great risk of not being able to schedule things the work the way it should be. But I know that have to be used to this setting or my health will definitely suffer. You’re right it’s all about self-discipline.
Thanks!
@Laura
The thing is I love having too much to do,
, which makes it doubly hard for me to turn down jobs.