I wonder if your advice would even branch out a little further for women who work at home? I do, and it seems that I fall into all of your traps -- and one more, that being that it's just too convenient to eat when you work at home.
Priority lists get all mushed together when a person works at home. Does a person get "dressed" for work, or not? Do they put in a load of laundry while they do your work, or not? In some ways at home, work habits slide; in others, they focus more. But I've noticed that when my work life and my home life get so firmly enmeshed, my eating tends to get worse and worse.
If I used to have a small problem putting myself first when I worked outside the home, I believe I have an even larger one now that I work at home. Everywhere I look, there are things waiting to be done that have nothing to do with my work. This, of course, isn't the case in an office -- I don't sit and think about the laundry when I work outside the home. Or the dishes. Or whether the dogs need in or out. I also don't have access to an entire refrigerator and pantry when I work outside the home.
Hints? Help? Advice? I wait, eagerly, here at the dining room table, working at the computer, the dog at my feet. My inner perfectionist is having some difficulty, I have to say.
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Melissa, what a wonderful and timely post.
I wonder if your advice would even branch out a little further for women who work at home? I do, and it seems that I fall into all of your traps -- and one more, that being that it's just too convenient to eat when you work at home.
Priority lists get all mushed together when a person works at home. Does a person get "dressed" for work, or not? Do they put in a load of laundry while they do your work, or not? In some ways at home, work habits slide; in others, they focus more. But I've noticed that when my work life and my home life get so firmly enmeshed, my eating tends to get worse and worse.
If I used to have a small problem putting myself first when I worked outside the home, I believe I have an even larger one now that I work at home. Everywhere I look, there are things waiting to be done that have nothing to do with my work. This, of course, isn't the case in an office -- I don't sit and think about the laundry when I work outside the home. Or the dishes. Or whether the dogs need in or out. I also don't have access to an entire refrigerator and pantry when I work outside the home.
Hints? Help? Advice? I wait, eagerly, here at the dining room table, working at the computer, the dog at my feet. My inner perfectionist is having some difficulty, I have to say.
May 18, 2009 - 8:52amThis Comment
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