One good thing about working at an outside job is that it helps you keep track of the days. Having typed that I am now remembering how it's not really true. I seldom knew what day it was, just what shift I was working. I never knew when it was a weekend cause I worked every day, weekends ceased to exist. Still, there was some day to day structure. Now that I'm working from home I can spend a day reading email, blogging and whatever else only to realize that the whole day has gone by and I've really accomplished nothing. Amazingly nothing for all the time put into it.
So, along with some self renovations, I am going to begin scheduling myself. I'm calling it a Bill of Work. Each day will have it's work to be done, before I even begin on the email section. Email is a vast suckage of time, you go into check your email and come out several hours later, wondering how you lost so much time from your day.
Today I was pretty good. I got up when my alarm went off at 6:00am. I got up, made a hot chocolate cause I'm out of coffee cream. I began by looking at the things I should be doing, then made the mistake of starting with email and the Neopets Advent Calendar. Next thing I knew it was a bit after 7:00 and my brain was letting me know 6:00 is too early as a start time. So, I went back to bed, I reset the alarm to go off at 8:00. (When you're working from home you get to go back to bed, sometimes). I got up, it was cold so I stayed in bed and found the warm spot again. I drifted back to sleep, woke up, got cold, slept again... I finally got up and looked at the clock only to realize I was going to be late for my 10:00 appointment if I didn't get moving. I was late but it turned out ok as she hadn't checked her email and wasn't expecting me anyway.
After that I went to Zellers, used the store credit card for breakfast and coffee cream. Then I went to read awhile at Tim Hortons. I really needed to get out, I've been housebound the last few days. I came back here in time to watch the soap opera awhile, while making fresh coffee with the newly bought coffee cream. Then, I brought down my doodle pad and pen. I made notes while watching the soaps and I drew a sketch for a new web banner and a new front page layout. So I didn't just sit there and vegetate while watching TV. I wasn't all bad.
Now, here I am. Still cold though I did flip the furnace off auto so it will actually humour me and pretend to heat the house. I'm going to work on the book proposal, once I finish the blog stuff. I really will. Just cause it's after 3:00PM now doesn't mean the day is shot. I can work long into the night. I've always liked working in the evening, watching the snow fall past my window, listening to the radio get static and die... why does that one local station always do that?
Anyway, here I am. I know what day it is and I'm really going to work now.
3 comments:
Sounds like you have your working at home well organized, tee,hee.
Anyways, you are creative and that requires a lot of goofing off so keep up the good work..
Skye, I'm not disciplined and I don't respond well to authority. As soon as there are rules involved I start looking for how to do it 'my way'. I didn't even know this about myself, always thought I was a good rule-following grrl, till a friend gave me a banner with penguins for my birthday, everyone who saw it started laughing and saying how that was so ME. I didn't know what they were talking about.
The banner was a line of penguins on an ice flow, all standard penguin types but there was one who was wearing a Hawaiin shirt and holding an iced drink, singing "I did it my way". Since I'm not into Hawaiin shirts and I was too young to drink alcohol at the time. I knew they must mean that whole my way thing. Still took me years to really notice that I can be that way.
I'm still a good grrl, everyone thinks I'm the so nice and friendly, I just do it all my way. ;)
Anyway, as far as working from home, if I can do it anyone can do it. Maybe you should give it a spin. What kind of work would you do? There are a lot more at home type of work than you may know of. I keep watching for new things people are doing from home.
Gee, this could have been a blog post at this rate. :)
The secret to writing Skye, is to do it. Write. Write complete trash. Write utter rubbish, just write. You can edit and audit it all later. If you never write it, there's nothing to re-write.
I wrote a story last night, it's adult so there will be no linkage here. But, I'm not making a huge amount of progress on the book proposal. In part that's because the email address for the guy I wanted feedback from keeps bouncing.
Anyway, get writing Skye. Don't hold yourself back, don't wait for something.
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