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you first start working from home you have all
this new found freedom that you never
experienced before and it can become real
easy to work all hours of the day simply
because you went out to lunch and feel a little
guilty. Let me assure you, this will happen. Set
boundaries. Set hours and honor them. For me,
ore and more parents are I get up early and work from 6am to 9am. This
is when I get a lot of my work done. Typically
able to work from home. Some parents
absolutely love it, others hate it. Working from my toddler is asleep or just waking up and
home certainly has its challenges. Especially if watches his shows for a bit. I then get ready for
the day and take Zelim for a walk and to the
your kids are home most of the work day. For
playground until around noon. I may take a call
me, working from home is a blessing. It gives
or two while we are out and about but nothing
me the opportunity to care for my son and
that forces me to be tied to my desk. Around
build my business around my schedule. If you
noon or so, we head back home for lunch and
are in this situation, it is easier to work your
schedule around your kids opposed to working this is when my work day really gets started.
Zelim goes down for a nap and I get to work. I
a typical nine to five work day. Here are five
designate days for calls and days to get work
tips to make working from home easy for
done. My husband typically gets home around
parents.
four so he takes over if Zelim is up from his nap
and I also have a couple nights I work a bit
later. My clients are all over the globe so it
Designate a work area. For me this is
key to work success. Step one lets everyone in allows me to meet with them and get some
extra hours in. Figure out your daily routine and
the house know including my husband (who
block out chunks of time that you can work
may interrupt just as much as my toddler)
know that when I’m in the office, I am working. with no distractions.
I try to keep the space as clean as possible
even though my toddler enjoys using the desk
as his train track from time to time.
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Create office hours for yourself. When