Workaholism: Hazards and Benefits

Working at home, from home, in your pajamas, in the nude, on the beach, working out of bed or chair - all these are the images and joys of working at home, that Kate and I enjoy and many others. Kate and I sell Real Estate, which is perhaps the most popular tele-working, working at home, pick your own hours of work, in the country.

There are some difficulties that came with the work at home. Perhaps half of the people who work from home do not succeed, mainly due to a lack of personal or family discipline.

There discipline are the freedoms, work from home and freedoms go together with responsibilities. These freedoms are working at home may also challenges for the responsibility of lower production and not moral how to deadlines and quotas.

I were teleworking or teleworking; imported because we the concept of tele-working from the British, and it is now our federal government , and I think I would rather work from home and my car, than from a cubic. As I mentioned in the work force, I prefer me as my boss and more to be done. I get to decide importances, and rarely have a chief who is not prone to want to work employs sillier than I am willing to do.

One chief, I had, my brother, had more than 150 pieces of paper to fill in for the sale of a Cell Home. On my own I have two - the sales contract and the certificate of title. In the 8 hours it took me to fill out the 150 pieces of paper, I would get "interrupted" by calls and demonstrations of houses, so that a sale of securities in the week in a home-workers I times.

As To determine what works and what does not. One boss I had a client who has purchased 50 properties of me was convinced that I advertisements for the sale of their properties with no price - I would get calls. That was and is stupid. I did not want calls. I wanted my purchasers.

One potential customers wanted me to run these blind ads, ads without price, and I would not do that. So he placed an ad in the New York Times and the other in The Wall Street Journal. "Waterfront home, 3 BR, 2BA, fireplace, boat dock, Scrn Prch, on the beach - $ 39000" and my phone number on the display. I had several hundred calls and not one that is not the right one, was a potential buyer. Why? Because there was a trailer on a rented lot in a trailer park, and it was 500 miles from New York City. His idea was to make the phone ring, a change in priority. Well, if you have my web page, you will find properties for sale say that everything about the property and the rule with a map.

You see, I do not want calls that are not interested in what I have to sell at the price I need to get. As my own boss, I am the ads on my way and not to someone else "idea" of what is right or feasible. These freedoms, head of them the freedom FROM madness of the bosses are precious. However, I have to find out what works and the chances without an error to blame boss on.

Working at home is big, but not easy. To excel, but even you must have exceptional personal discipline, organizational skills and perseverance. Those who work less at home than in the offices is certainly a lot less work at home as working time in the office. In the office you can take a thirty minute break and not be caught. At home, with this kind of discipline, your coffee break can be used for hours or even days. Or you can just sleep and not even stand up to the coffee. For hours, days or weeks. And it is the rent or mortgage payment and there is the house.

Working at home is free. There is no dress code. You can work in your pajamas, shorts, or even at home in the strengthening of magic - naked. But we all know that if we dress up, at least some of us act professionally. And without slipping leaders of the cubic to check on the shoulder - what are you working on?

I tell you: I am at work as a consultant for a large consulting firms - PRIMARY CAUSE OF FAILURE WAS BUSINESS COMPUTER GAMES. Believe it or not, almost all the companies that went under and we had rented had one or more people playing Solitaire or any other computer game dozens of hours a month. Most of the time, he was the boss, his wife, his girlfriend, or all three were bankrupt, that the business of solitaire or Doom. If no one else forces you to produce - some people do not. Here are some reasons that those who have failed to teleworking have failed.

Lack family discipline: If you are at home, you can also tend to family, and that is great. I love it. However, it also allows for a major disruption. Child care can easily consume more than a full day, if you do not learn to discipline your children in an effective and care. If you just yell, "Be quiet I work." They will find a way to secure your attention - no matter what - and it is often only at the wrong time - as with Mr. Big is on the phone, or if you hesitated, and the deadline is NOW.

If you must fix dinner for your husband , change the baby, the other three children at all, the dozens of hours, take them on the bus, to the courts, vacuum floors, laundry, the wax floors, the oil antiques, sweep the ramp and talk to with your friends on several unemployed the phone. Then you will probably not succeed as telecommuter.

Older children are even more of a challenge, if you are not prepared to raise disciplined children - and there are very few of them these days. If you have no children, but dogs, parrots, hobbies, books, TV shows and all kinds of other interests that you away from production - they are not there either. How do you want to employ someone who could only work if nothing else is a high priority, the attention?

Food: Snacking, gourmet food, coffee, a refrigerator door swings and ice can eat a huge amount of time in a day. And then you must either lift twice as much time to exercise, or you money for the new and graeren wardrobe. Many people who work at home, you could say, work-chip Side. Chips, dips, drinks, Saigkeiten, a few snacks next to the computer, and soon you will need a graeren, wider, more powerful and strengthening of the chair slats under the mattress. The upside is that your social life will die and you'll have more time to work and pay for the larger food and clothing. Can we say tent clothing?

Sloth: laziness, slow motion, procrastination and self-interruptions are murderers of the worker at home. If one of your motivation is to sleep, it would be better to be similarly motivated to work late. You must learn to produce, promote himself, to market yourself and your product and procrastination is self-destructive. Later in locker. One of my friends very productive sleep till 2:30 pm every day. He calls me on the way to his first cup of coffee, and I look forward to the day it with "Good morning, Lee!" But he Kichert in about 7 minutes, he made the phone and in planning its next day on his cup of coffee. He allowed no interruptions from all phones to 5:30 pm every night and works through until about 3 am, when he answers his e-mail and go to bed a little after 4 pm. He is a designer and his clients are developers, the care of the building during the day and talk with him, at home, at night. It is not laziness. He just works in the night-shift work is well.

My youngest son is an artist, a very successful one: http://www.AbraxasArt.com It works best from the afternoon to early morning. There are many who work at home, that the work the graveyard shift and find that works when others sleep, they can be more productive and creative. To sleep, or if you will take off early, if you will, but to do that you will knock out of business. If you work at home, you work from to-do lists, appointments scheduled, and the set targets. But, if you are not enough jobs in a unit of time, you will not get paid. You must learn to plan your work and your plan, or else.

Communication Sins: If at any time on frivolous e-mails, phone calls, faxes, meetings, stations in the cafeteria, golf, tennis, poker - and they are not planning to produce income - you will soon chat, gossip, play and fritter your income, savings and life away.

Yes, I WORK in a coffee house nearby. They have high-speed network for my laptop. I also take my hat logo, my company pin on my chest, and have a great name and the business card taped to my computer lid, so that it can be easily read from a distance, as I work. I also have a couple of calls per day to its associated companies, as my friend, the home designer.

I a lot of e-mail and who sends me forwarded junk is punished, every time. Who sends me back hoaxes is the Hoax reference, and I send them to "reply to all", as the kind of people who send send the stuff with each address visible over 99% of time.

I also very little e-mail address, Unwanted, from some of my contacts about things, which I am not interested in. I thank them and let them know what I AM interested and want me to just that in a nice way. I have a few hundred spam per day. My filter all but a few. The rest, I read most of speed, and often find something, what can I do for my own marketing, not often, so I spend an average of about 2 seconds on each mailing.

I stopped by another home-front workers A few months ago, and he played solitaire, which calls on jokes and gossip, and was constantly on frivolous e-mail. Last week he got a paid job, only on the minimum wage, he has almost nothing to home.

Communication sins are incoming and outgoing communications. Television, talk radio, music, telephone, entertaining websites, porno, dating sites and chat, social calls come or go, are all thieves and production time killers.

Slovenliness: If you live in a multi-tiered, hyper managed, large -- Management, in the middle-management, workers bee, and each hierarchical level checks and double checks all levels, and handled everything on the way up the line or out of the door - you will find that a large part of the missing work when you are at home. You must learn about your own editor. They must learn their own manager. You must learn to be your own quality control and efficiency expert. Let sloppy work from the door, from your desk, in the e-mail or e-mail, the sure and send a bad message about your worth and professionalism. Doing sloppy work leads to sloppy pay.

Home Home Sweet Syndrome: If you are used to disable the productivity change when you arrive at home, it may be almost impossible to know that home is where the work is . If you are used to kicking off your heels, slipping on your robe, lounging in a hot bath with a book and candles, lie on the couch with the paper or any of the myriad activities of the leisure life at home, you may not At home, able to work productively. And we are right back to the core of everything - self-discipline.

Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, sex and self-Music: A glass of wine at home after work, can be wonderful. A glass of wine while you can work at home terribly anti-productive. A smoke break at work is at worst embarrassing, at home, you can simply insert a two-, three - or four pack a day habit and push smoking in chain and graer and graer ashtrays. If you have a "rest" drug users and the work at home, you can easily "addicted to this feeling, and that feeling is not too accomplishment.

And, oh miracle stay in bed with your lover, joy and afternoon hot nights - but it can quickly eat up the days. Many, many people enjoy relaxing music, dance to a tune or otherwise letting good music of their choice, their spirit into the sublime. That is not where work is performed. If your mind on the music, it is not "on the job". Concentration is a primary requirement of work and at home, without you soon incompetent and unpaid.

Workaholism: workaholics are often stressed and must go home and once for a while, take a break, or perhaps a break-down. If you are forced to work day and night, as I am, make sure that you love your work so much that you do today as a recreation area. Fortunately, I love my job so much that it does not work with me. Part of the reason is that I just kind of work that I love and not of a different kind, there are a few things that other real estate agents do, I do not. But, I guess the energy that I could do those things that I do not like, and that much more energy into the other 99% of my job that I love.

Yes, I am up before dawn and often work after midnight - is today one of these days - but it is not part of today or many other days that I have everything that I did not love. Yes, I was with a potential client from 5 pm to 9 pm, came home to 83 e-mails, and now I am in another article, pounding and NOT A SECOND this time, I was unhappy about what I did. I love them all. Verflixt good!

If you are a workaholic, and not like what you are doing - you are doomed to ulcers, early death, and perhaps a sad family. No work at home, if you are not qualified. OR, qualified on someone else's time, and if you have the drive, determination and discipline - to stay home more and done more happily.

And if you have what it takes to it. Perhaps you choose this field, southern Delaware, and perhaps you will help me, choose a place to buy and live and work at home. I hope so. If you already have at home, and would like to write an article or an answer to this one - please do and send it to me - I would possibly publish, as is my site.

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