Run­ning your busi­ness from home can be polar­iz­ing, if not com­pli­cated; you think you know for sure that flex­i­bil­ity and con­ve­nience are the rea­sons why you decided to leave your nine-to-five, but when you hear your spouse say some­thing like ‘John’s work­ing from home so he can watch ESPN all day long’ or your teen telling her friends ‘Mom’s like, work­ing from home so she can, you know, ground me in real time’, some­times you can’t help but agree with them.

Tak­ing advan­tage of the flex­i­bil­ity of work­ing at home does not mean that you must answer to everyone’s beck and call, or be dis­tracted by each lit­tle thing. Sure you might go “dude, that’s a given”, but try say­ing it again while actu­ally in the mid­dle of a work day. When caught in a moment you might be torn between com­plet­ing a press­ing require­ment, such as an email to be sent to a client, and answer­ing the phone that keeps ring­ing off the hook — only for you to answer the phone and hear your best friend from col­lege yell ‘WHAZZAAAAAAAAA!!!’ — moments like this would want to make you pour a can of Bud all over your best bud’s head, don’t you agree? You want to treat your busi­ness like busi­ness if you want to be pro­duc­tive with it, rather than a pas­time you can take care in the most slovenly conditions.

First of all, do away with wear­ing paja­mas to work. You are what you wear, and don’t let any­body con­vince you oth­er­wise. The cloth­ing that you wear can reflect how you feel about work. That said, this doesn’t nec­es­sar­ily mean that you would have to work in a suit and demand that your chil­dren call you Sir or Ma’am instead of Dad or Mom — the only excep­tion to the for­mer would be if clients have to visit your place of res­i­dence for busi­ness pur­poses. It just means that, by wear­ing your paja­mas and sweat pants all the time you will not feel as though you are really in the mood to put for­ward your most pro­duc­tive self. Take a shower, put on clothes that you wouldn’t want to wear if you want to catch some zs, get to work and feel classy and pro­fes­sional for the rest of the day.

Next, you may need to go through a par­a­digm shift in terms of con­sid­er­ing map­ping out your work sched­ule each day. If you real­ize that you have sched­uled your work for the day along­side help­ing your spouse change dia­pers or cook lunch or right at the same time your favorite foot­ball team is play­ing, then that is NOT ded­i­ca­tion. Your sched­ule should include the time you get up, when you will start work­ing, and when you will take your breaks. But speak­ing of inter­rup­tions, you should make cer­tain that your sched­ule con­tains as lit­tle of these as pos­si­ble. This may mean invest­ing in a sec­ond phone line, and mov­ing your home office away from the tele­vi­sion or other parts of the house where you may be distracted.

The last thing you have to ensure would be that every­body you work with is aware of your sched­ule and what it entails. If some­one calls to ask you out to a leisurely lunch, think first about whether or not you would be able to do this if you were work­ing a reg­u­lar job. Sched­ul­ing leisure time on sched­ule days off means that you are putting time and effort into your work, and this will be reflected in your income.

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