a fifo wife {fifo life: how to: work from home}

I struggle with working from home really do I procrastinate terribly. However the reality is along with being a stay at home mum wife to a FIFO husband I am also a writer and a vintage store owner. I have a lot that is meant to be done but I’m easily distracted by other jobs such as my children, keeping house, my four dogs, one cat, and enough chickens to be classed as poultry farm.

However I have learnt a thing or two about working from home these past months so whether it be working or doing the house finances here is a how to:

1. Make a plan. Write your work list in a work list diary and home jobs in a home diary keep them separate. They are two different things.
2. Have an office where you can keep the door closed. You can leave your office your day behind when it’s done. If you don’t have a the luxury have a space even a table in the hall that you can tidy at the end of the day, turn off the laptop, slide in the chair and resume being mum instead of small business owner.
3. Don’t work from your bed. Don’t. It’s a place to do other things such as sleep and sometimes sex…sex shouldn’t be resigned to just the bed but thats another how to..
4. Get dressed for a day at the office. Gets you in the right frame of mind.
5. Have meal and coffee breaks just like you would if worked a ‘real job’.
6. If you have kids at home bribe them not to disturb you for an hour and then you will play Thomas the tank with them before returning back…alternate between the TV babysitting, toy, reading and colouring- I never said it was easy or that I am perfect.
7. Don’t forget to network outside the home…join the local business group just to maintain contact with the outside world. It stops you from becoming a complete hermit and the inter net being the only way you see the outside world.
8. Don’t turn on face book it’s a productivity killer. Trust me.
9. Have a knock off time and switch it all off…well at least until the kids go to bed and then your back to work because you love it that much…and no that not sarcasm.
10. Enjoy it. It’s why you work at home

And no that’s not me (of course) my office is a little more creatively messy than that. Image is from here.

XxDeb