Freelance or working from home ? Triple Golden Rules to Kill Boring

October 01, 2009

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If you’re like me, I’m a web designer and most of time I’m working from home .. It could be a way to feel comfort because you have everything you need around and you but also It could be a way to get bored from work and even bored from being at home for a lot of time .

And That’s how I feel in the past few days and was trying to find something new to do to get rid of boring .

1- Wake up Early, Sleep Early
That’s a role I started to do few days ago, Although we love Night and we achieve more work with less noise and some quiet time all over the place, but we then ruin our biological hour, the proper system of life we have .
Waking up Early makes you enjoy the moments of morning and fresh air you get, the right amount of light and a little breakfast .

2- Change Place you work in

Unlike usual work, Working from home doesn’t force you to stay at your workspace most of time to do your work. You can change your the place your work in, Moving from your workspace to another room, or the balcony or the backyard .

3- Simply, Go out

That’s the simple solution, You can go out and get what you need to achieve your work with you and go to some coffeehouse or a pub so you can see new people or having a chat with a friend or a co-worker. You can even go to gym and exercise for sometime . It will really kill your boring .

Those are my 3 Golden Rules I used to follow, If you have other rules to follow Please share it with us .

6 COMMENTS

Tarek Shalaby

Thanks for the tips! Definitely some good tactics to battle boredom. As freelancers, it's always challenging to stay positive and productive. Personally, I'm quite the night owl and prefer staying up late. But I still try to be in bed before 3am and never spend more than 8 hours sleeping. I also try to go out every single day, even if it's just to pick up something from the store. It's very true that you need to get good sunlight on a daily basis. A big part of becoming your own boss is discipline, and that's what freelancing is all about. If you're not disciplined, you cannot succeed. Thanks for the informative post.
Husien Adel

really Hisham this is very useful article , I'm working a freelancer all the time from home , some times i feel boring from work and every thing I will try your triangle recomm to work as freelancer from home thanks H
Hisahm Sadek

You're welcome Husein, Hope you'll always have no boring time ..
Hisahm Sadek

Discipline is a first rule in my life .. Everything must be on time .. Thanks for your comment, Tarek
@cssbit

Thank u, but i cant's wake up early … also my workplace is very bad, still boring
Hisahm Sadek

I think you should try putting the hour back and wake up early .. I love working @ Night, but Morning helps you more .. For the workplace, It's hard to afford getting some workplace like we see with those companies outside .. so we should just try to keep it as helpful as useful or change the place we work ..


	@Heebzo -.-