Downsides of Working from Home

We all love freedom. Everyone loves freedom. One of the perks of working from home is freedom to do as you please. Working from home gives you the flexibility to work with your own rules and your own time. It saves you the hassles of daily commute and its attendant costs. In addition, it allows you quality time for your family and loved ones. Inspite of all these perks, it is always a struggle to remain organized while working from home.

Here are some of the downsides.

Man by nature is a social animal. He thrives very well through social connectivity and emotional support from other persons. By working from home in social isolation, he is deprived of all these. This can at times affect productivity.
While in isolation and without other persons to interact with, the only way to be motivated to work is by way of self-motivation. If you are incapable of motivating yourself to work, you become less productive. 


 
Working in isolation can be easily stressful because of the social deprivation. "Stress is the experience that happens when the demands in front of us outweigh the resources.” This is easily aggravated in isolation because there are no ready resources outside yourself alone to draw from more so when you are unable to self-motivate. This is one dreadful downside of working in isolation.

The freedom and flexibility of working from home in isolation can be a cost. Excessive freedom is easily abused and it becomes a downside to working in isolation. Just imagine if there is no fixed time for you to report to work and there are no bosses to worry about being late to work. In this kind of scenario, there is a tendency to sleep more and to laze around more without worrying your head about consequences. This affects productivity.

By nature many human beings don’t get to do anything unless they have to. That chips off from self-discipline. Many of us don't do things until we have to. The absolute flexibility that comes with Work From Home culture could hit your discipline. You are more likely to procrastinate by leaving things you can do now for later and it affects your productivity.

You go around these downsides and still remain productive.
 
The first step is to practice self-discipline. You can make your own strict schedule then practice self-discipline by sticking with it till your work is done. That is one great way to be your own effective commander by strictly following your own rules. That is how to avoid unwarranted anxiety, work-related stress and undue self-criticism. You can take care of your stress-induced mental health better by practicing meditation and resilience in some quiet moments of your isolation. If not, negative stress can psychologically hamper your productivity.


 

Why Lack of Self-discipline Can Make You Poor

“If we are born poor, it is not our fault, but if we die poor, it is!”…… Bill Gates
 

Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without discipline. When you have no discipline, you are incapable of committing yourself to any job or business. You lack consistency, sincerity, reliability, punctuality, focus and dependability. “Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” Check the records; the role of honor for champions does not include men and women who lack self-discipline. Without discipline, only a miracle can save you from the jaws of poverty.

You may succeed to make millions but lack of discipline on your part will soon fritter the whole lot away. Former world heavy-weight boxing champion Mike Tyson who won millions of dollars from his fights became broke within five years of his last major fight purely on account of lack of discipline. It can happen to anyone who still does not believe that everyone needs iron-discipline to make and keep money. “Self-discipline, through an appropriate and strictly enforced budget of time and expenditures is an essential for financial independence.”  This is a price anyone who hopes to attain financial independence must pay. For example, I chose to “punish” myself and literary drove myself crazy to put these articles together. Sometimes, even at very odd hours of the night I chose to stay awake to write. I had a choice either to sleep or go partying but instead I wrote and kept on writing to meet my dead-line. This is the kind of price many people are unwilling or unable to pay to achieve something. That is mainly why they remain poor.