Have a freelancer job, having your home office and manage your time as you please, is perhaps the dream of every creative. But this independence bring a number of responsibilities and if we acquiesce too often, we fall into unproductive or unhealthy dynamic.
If you are a freelance designer, whether graphic, web or otherwise, does not need to tell you that not only you're a designer, you are also accounting, publicist, business and a long list of charges that you face if you work alone . These responsibilities have made over time to start making bad habits of behavior that really affect your productivity and your profits.
At the start, you push yourself as much as you did in the office, but in time, we are so adaptable that we forget that everything must have limits, rules or planning for us to function properly.
1. Spend the day at the computer: Some say that having a home based job can contribute to weight gain. Especially if you work at the computer. The temptation to get up from the chair for hours except for snacks in the refrigerator can be very large.
Both our bodies and our minds need short breaks. Do not take these breaks can affect our performance.
2. Working in pajamas: perhaps one of the more normal habits of those who have a internet job. Face it, at some point wake up and walked straight to the computer to start working, it was noon and you realized that you had not brushed. Walking out of bed at the home office is typical, but sometimes that action does not allow us to have a more disciplined and productive routine.
3. Do you feed bad: not only you have not brushed, breakfast in the rush forgot to log on waking and at midday nourish your stomach calls, but happen to have a couple of cookies and a juice near you satisfy the hunger that then invades you. No respect meal times and not get closer to the kitchen to prepare something healthy. You went to eat instant soup in the microwave calentabas office, to microwave instant soup at home. Evaluate your diet or suddenly something will fail in your body, the better to prevent it in time.
4. Do not drive a shift: for a person does not need to be productive 24 hours of continuous work, in fact, requires a well planned schedule and productive periods. Sometimes, you can spend 10 hours at the computer and do not produce anything. But, you can work for 4 hours where productivity can be optimal. Assesses how far you are more productive and establishes a work schedule to take advantage of these lapses, instead of wasting time for long periods.
5. Do you exercise? wake up from bed to the computer, forget to take breakfast, eat unhealthy food, spend more than 10 hours at the computer and not spend even 20 minute workout. No need to rinse it, you know it's wrong, that that lifestyle does not really allow you to carry very far. Spend a couple of hours to exercise your body, so your productivity is greater. If you've never done before or do not know where to start: let me help.
6. Do not take a vacation: we are slaves of time, workaholics, 100% dedicated to what we love so much: rain or shine still there, connected to the world from our home, meeting people virtually, doing business, making money, but And the holidays when? Do not forget your family, friends, not virtual beings who want to spend time with you, in the offline world and sometimes spends an entire year without you take a break you will definitely need.
7. Working with distractions: the house payments, television, market, video games, pet bathing, visiting friends and countless activities that can distract from work. The people around us sometimes do not realize that, although we are at home "working" seriously, we are not playing on the computer, our time there is profit and loss. So detects your distractions and seeks alternatives to productivity.
8. Workplace have dirty and poorly organized: It is essential to work in a clean, bright and organized to avoid distractions and work with confidence.
9. Always work alone: If you have a freelancer job and it's natural that you work in your own office and maybe even this is within your home, but that does not mean you have to be always alone. Attend courses and seminars will help you stay current, and customers do not lose objectivity because they meet other disñadores and meet other viewpoints.
10. Sloth: Avoid giving in to laziness, think that every morning you go to the office, but the office is in your house, dress up, look a schedule and stick ... pays 110%.
These are some of the bad habits we develop when we started working from home. What did you think? Have any more to suggest?
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