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Your Workspace is Essential To Your Productivity
As a freelancer, “working from home” might not mean working from home
One of the greatest benefits of being a freelancer is the ability to work around your own schedule. If you want to complete your projects at 2 AM in footie pajamas, nobody is going to dress code you. As long as you’re hitting the deadline, it doesn’t matter when or where you work.
However, a flexible schedule can sometimes work against you. Just because you have the flexibility to work from the comfort of your bedroom or dining room table doesn’t mean you should.
This was my biggest problem when I began freelancing two years ago. Every day, I’d set my laptop up at my kitchen table and begin working— for about twenty minutes. Then I’d get distracted by my phone, other people talking, or one of my cats attempting to snooze in my lap. Two hours would pass and I’d have almost nothing to show for it.
Initially, I tried to eliminate the distractions: I placed my phone at an unreachable distance, locked myself in my bedroom and told everyone not to bother me. But, even in the absence of my biggest distractions, I still couldn’t work. My brain was like a TV with a hundred different channels, and I felt suffocated by the silence, not inspired by it.
