subject: You Must Manage Working from Home Effectively! [print this page] You Must Manage Working from Home Effectively!
The same job skills you have been using for years can easily be translated into freelance work and be done from your own home. You do need to guard against distractions which will keep you from working efficiently and successfully. Treat your home like a workplace while you are working or you may find that work will quickly become impossible.
Your Frame of Mind
The best way to make working from home a success is to keep the same mindset you had when you used to work in a corporate environment. Keep to your schedules, complete your assignments on time, and ensure you meet with all expectations. You can still do all of that, from home, as long as you plan ahead, and keep that same frame of mind.
There are a lot of companies willing to hire home-based workers because they feel they would be more dedicated to doing a good job and will have the flexibility the company needs in their freelance workers. Things may have changed in your life and those changes will have to be dealt with so that you are free to concentrate on what you need to, in order to get the job done. The most common of these changes are children and just like when you went out to work, you will still need to arrange for childcare, even though you may not be leaving the house. Fail to do that and they will just move on to the next candidate.
Be Disciplined
To work successfully from the home, you need to have someone there, if you can, to help take care of the children during "work time," and you need a quiet space from which to work. Sounds cold, I know, but in this economy, there are lots of people willing to do what they can to make money and to hold on to your home working job you will need to create a schedule for yourself and stick to it. There will be times when this will be near impossible, and you will have to make adjustments for them. Just keep in mind that to be a success in this new working world, you have to be able to focus when you need to.
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