The Best Trick to Get You Motivated for the Whole Week
Working from home blogging, running websites, or even working as a freelancer is a far better way than having a fixed job, but it is not easy.
If you go to your job every day you don’t have to worry about too many things, you have a fixed schedule and you forget about everything when the time to go home comes. On the opposite, working from home is not that easy, you can easily forget when you should work or when you rest. You can do nothing all the day and when evening comes and you realised you did nothing you get worried, stressed, and you will stay up until later to finish things.
Working for home is not so easy as it seems. It is not like you stay all the day and you do nothing. You have a lot of things to do. More, you can get demotivated very easy, or your general problems can cause you a block and a continuous stress.
There are a ton of decisions to make for your life, you may have a family, kids, you have a house to maintain. Everyday new issues are coming up, somethings fails and you have to repair, you have to go to shopping, buy gifts and many other things a man should do in his day-to-day life. The real problem is that you are in control when to work, when to deal with your life issues and when to relax.
You have to decide what is more important to do in every moment of your life. No one helps you. You can’t have excuses like: “I’m sorry I can’t help you because I’m at Work Friday”. Every decision you make is yours and you can decide: “It is better for me to do this instead of that”. But many people fail to take decisions. The truth is that if you take a lot of decision there is a doubt associated with each and a lot of doubt can cause you to refuse to take decisions again. It is much better to be told what to do, isn’t it ?. Well, for my personal point of view, I hate to be told what to do, but the decision doubt also affects me.
What I’ve tried in the last few months and it works like hell for my personal life and business life? I focus on fixing problems and I reserve less time to take decisions. I reserve one day per week to fix all the problems and issues. This day is usually Monday ? Why ? Because if I do all the things monday I will be motivated and focused all the week, because I know I fixed all problems for that week. When a new issue appears, I not it down on my smartphone. Monday morning I wake up knowing that I will fix a lot of things. The real gain is that I don’t have to be distracted from my work every time a new issue appears, or to think at any moment that I should better fix that thing instead of working. The more unresolved issues you have the more stress you have to handle. If an issue comes to me another day I’m relaxed because I know i will fix that on Monday.
It is monday, and I resolved all the issues ahead of schedule, and I’m happy and motivated for the rest of the week. Same happened last few weeks. Working from home is not so easy, but I can figure out how to get it working in my advantage.
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December 13th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
hi, your suggestion is really cool
I can tell you I hadn’t thought about it before but I’ll put it into practice to see hw it works
anyway I feel obliges to tell you that most freelancers have trouble organizing not because of faulty planning habilities, but because of not following the planns one had made and agreed to previously
i’m just saying… right?
well, I can admit that making a good schedule involves taking in consideration the time one needs to make every one of the tasks one must do… but… yet… there’s still the procastination and the un-focus factor…. right?
December 13th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
You’re right, but the most improtant problem of freelancer is not schedule, but leaving other problems unresolved and that is a big reason for procastination.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
I’m working from home for 1 year now and I feel very good about it. I don’t organize anything. I just do what I like and that’s drives me to big wins.
December 14th, 2010 at 8:57 am
As I said in the article, you have other things to resolve that are not related to your online work, and you can be easily distracted. Maybe you have a natural skill to stay focused and motivated, you are born to work from home 🙂