5 Critical conditions for a successful work at home

You are filled with enthusiasm and ideas. This is your first day of work at home, the first day in full freelancing. The first day of freedom.

It will take place just a few days or maybe weeks, before you realize that something is wrong. Your habitual organization of the day did not work in the new environment, and performance compared to the office much podhramyvaet. It is obvious that the work at home requires a completely different approach, other methods than office work. Let's understand what it is.

What is the difference?

When we surfaced from the stuffy office to freedom, it seems to us much more rosy. But every medal has a downside. We examined in detail the pitfalls of freelancing in this articleAnd now we repeat only the main aspects.

At firstNo one is now not necessary to have the soul and not watching you. You are responsible for your success or failure.

SecondlyAs you will most likely now work alone, there is nobody to ask for help or advice. The social aspect, too, may be adversely affected. Or, at least, your social life will be very different from what it was before.

Thirdly, You are asking for themselves rules of organization of the working process. Instead of working "from bell to bell" on the approved instructions from above, you get a complete freedom of action. Wanna work for three hours a day or the whole night until dawn, use convenient for you personally tools and programs, invent new ways to perform tasks - everything you would ever think.

The most important thing that you need to recognize domestic work is quite different from your office last. In order for it to be successful, you need very different skills and habits.

It's time to get down to business

No, we are not talking about choosing the easy chair for a home office or a more powerful computer. There are far more important things that directly affect your success. There are five key elements that you definitely need to consider and properly arrange for the proper organization of your household work.

1. Your physical space to work.
2. Working with e-mail.
3. working time management.
4. The boundaries of the family.
5. Planning.

Some people decide these questions are already "in the process", but it is much better if you think about it in advance and outline options for themselves. For this purpose we have prepared a number of recommendations on each issue for you.

Your home office

When you start to run out of the office, then you tend to have the following options:

• Working in a special "business area" of your apartment or private room.
• Renting a dedicated room.
• Coworking.
• Work outdoors, in a café or at the library.

Each of these options has its pros and cons that each human individual. For some, the most desirable of being at home, the other kind of atmosphere discourages and does not tune in the desired fashion. Some dream of doing business in the cafe or on the beach, others spit of sand on the teeth and the laptop and shut themselves off from the hubbub of the crowd.

If you are significantly low on money, then the best solution would still be to work at home. Try to only make the workplace a business atmosphere, try to isolate and insulate themselves a space that you are comfortable, and where no one will disturb you.

Email

Since you are now "teleworker", that special place in your life takes email. It is the most convenient way to communicate, get information and contacts with customers. Follow these simple rules:

• Do not check e-mail every five minutes. Get a notifier not to miss the message that requires an immediate response, but the post itself open not more than two or three times a day.
• Unsubscribe from all mailing lists that do not carry any useful information for you.
• Use shortcuts and automatic filters in Gmail. This allows you to quickly weed out all the excess and see the most important messages in the mailbox.
• If you are a user of Google services, use the possibility of integrating them to add new events from Gmail to Google Calendar Viewing, tasks in Google Task, and so on.

Your working hours

Everyone wants to work four hours a day... no, a week, but for this you will need to work hard as long as 14 hours a day :). But seriously, the development of the most appropriate mode for you is very important for the labor process. You may work fine at night, but then you'll rarely see with your family. There are early birds, preferring to write the first line with the rising of the sun, there is the contrary owls. In any case, you will need to choose the most convenient for you and those around the schedule and try to abide by it. But in any case, do not turn your job into chaos, it will kill your business in no time.

Borders with family

Header bit clumsy, but that's what you have to do - draw the line and do not let anyone break them. Very often you can find a few dismissive attitude to work at home, including from their loved ones. "Well, if you're still at home, help with the housework... Solve the puzzle in mathematics... help customize program... Explain... go down... "- all those innocent requests pull you out of the work process and discarded ago.

You must clearly and insist that you work and your working time (see. paragraph above) you better not touch. Requires respect for his work and adherence to limits. It is not so difficult, especially when your arguments are supported by money earned by you.

Planning

Do not neglect the daily and weekly planning. Now you are your own boss and set your own goals for themselves and priorities. Awareness of the desired end result, competent setting of intermediate targets, tracking daily progress and analyze their mistakes is vital to the success of your business.

Exactly how you will conduct planning, depending on your preference. But it is clear that at least once a week, you need to set aside time to take stock and determine the sevenday goals to the next, and every day you need to make the work plan and try it stick.

And what freelance life arrangement of tricks you have learned during the activity? What tips can give budding domestic workers? Share with us your professional secrets in the comments, it will be interesting to all.