Working from home is…Amazing!
Working from home is…
Amazing.
It really is. I highly recommend it.
BUT, im learning some lessons about the dynamics of working from home with 3 kids that I wanted to share.
This are more geared towards parents, but im sure you can take these lessons and apply them with other relationships.
If you can, you should. ESPECIALLY if you have kids.
The flexibility of being home and “available” is seriously one of the best things EVER.
I will say though that it is difficult at times.
Yes, amazing, but also difficult.
Because instead of being away at a location and separating work from home, everything is wrapped together in one spot.
This is great because you can work early if you want to.
You can work late if you want to.
You can work random hours.
You can take a lunch break in your garage gym.
You can pause and pick your kids up from school early and go get an ice cream.
You can do all of these things.
But it is harder to get into a good flow state, especially if you have younger kids that are home for the summer or home with you in general because they're not of school age yet.
It makes those dynamics a little bit more interesting to navigate.
What im learning and trying to figure out daily is the balance between all he work that I CAN do and the work that I SHOULD do.
I love what I do so much that it’s easy to just keep working…
but more important than that, is a family that I have who I am doing all this work for. And as much as it makes me happy to have all the dollars in the bank, not ONCE have my kids asked how much do we have in our bank account or “how many clients do you have?”…
they dont care. They care about TIME WITH ME.
So today, breaking from my norm, I didn’t get any work done in the early morning like normal.
Instead I snuck in and woke up my middle child and brought her downstairs to snuggle on the couch and watch Disney.
I wasn’t on my phone or computer, JUST with her. Present in the moment…
WAY harder than it seems because of course my mind is running wild with all the things I need to do, but those things had to wait today.
The lesson here— break from the routine and remember WHO you are doing all this work for. I’ll keep working on it and I’d encourage you to do the same.