Comments on: 12 Ways to Keep Sane While Working from Home

By: What?

What? — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:30:20 +0000

“good article ! anyone know how I would go about finding a local user group in NORTH LONDON, uk ?”

Islington :) – Although I haven’t lived there for a while so I could be wonrg.

How about everyone works a 9am-5pm, or 6am-2pm – then I think you will find that your life will simple fit into everyone around you.

If you need to work extra hours later that night – then do it and take time off later in the week.

Structure is the one thing which was missing from the list – keep yourself in a routine – whatever that is and stick to it as much as possible – but ehy, you work from home, so mould it to suit you.

By: shan

shan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:41:48 +0000

meditate 2 mins each hour.

By: khuramyz

khuramyz — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:57:56 +0000

Great article.
Its better if you can take a whole day off like sunday. Just get out of the city or country. Where no client/partner can reach you. LOLz.

By: Holly Wallace

Holly Wallace — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:18:42 +0000

Thanks for the great tips! I find setting a start work time and an end work time really helps. So I endeavour to be at the computer by 9.30am every morning and be away from it by 6pm at the latest. I find that half an hour of exercise or a class outside the house at knockoff time helps to break the urge to keep working and turns my brain off. Shutting down the computer at the end of the day and closing the office door also helps so I’m not tempted to just nip in and check my emails or just finish one more job.

By: wilwaldon

wilwaldon — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:33:53 +0000

I find that listening to some good soothing music like Bob Marley helps me relax while I work. I also don’t have a TV, so there are no distractions from Shows or Movies. That helps a lot. But then again, I have games on my PC and can watch movies on demand with Hulu haha.

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:10:19 +0000

I certainly understand the vampire remark as I love to work at whatever time of day then nap etc as needed, but it never fails after pulling an all nighter to finish that project while it’s quiet, the phone will ring at 9am with a new client on the other end wondering WTF you’re doing in bed at that time of day LOL

Love the list and Love the Jack – perfect pic for the topic!

Super info here on SitePoint and it’s great to feed the brain for breaks.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:32:18 +0000

good article ! anyone know how I would go about finding a local user group in NORTH LONDON, uk ?

thanks

By: FaridHadi

FaridHadi — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:04:28 +0000

I agree with most of the points that you have listed and would say that the most important one, according to me at least, would be “Have lunch with a friend”. Sitting alone at home is the most difficult part of freelancing.

By: Akki

Akki — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:17:59 +0000

thanks to share great info.

By: Speck

Speck — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:13:35 +0000

I agree that keeping regular hours are good, whatever “regular” may mean. I’m on the West Coast but telecommute to an East Coast office that runs a fairly typical 9-6 schedule. That means I’m in my office by 6am and out around 3pm, although I do find myself, like others here, working more hours than that sometimes because of my proximity to the “office”.

Those “routine” things make all the difference. I get ready for working at home just like I would get ready to go to work. People back at the office like to joke about how I’m working in my ratty bathrobe, but those same people are the same ones who wouldn’t make very good remote workers.

Yes, working remotely is different, but the more ways I can make it like working at the office, the easier it is for both me and my co-workers.