Don’t Forget to Shower
That’s right, don’t forget to shower. You laugh, but I’m serious. In my early days of working-at-home, I’d start working and realize around 2:30 PM that I hadn’t showered yet. It was too late by then to shower, so I’d just continue working and figured I’d do it the next day.
Well, not only did my husband suffer the olfactory consequences, I started feeling like the workday just went on and on. The problem: I had no beginning and no end to my office hours. Home life and work life overlapped, causing me to feel rundown because my hours seemed to start the second I woke up to the minute I fell asleep. The lesson: treat your work-at-home career as a real job.
Whether you’re working part-time or full-time, make sure you take time every morning to shower and get ready. Change out of your pajamas and into something you’d want a colleague to see you in. Set a specific time to report into work, eat lunch at a consistent time (which is good for your metabolism as well), and stop working at the end of the day (no earlier, no later – make this a rule, not an exception).
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Cute and so true!
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