You NEED an End to Your Work Day!

I've been getting ready for shows for several weeks now - which meant working ALL the time. Hubby had made a few "funny" remarks about it and I thought he really was making jokes.

Well, my last show was last weekend and I'm finally getting back to my version of normal. That's when I realized that I don't think the funny remarks were just jokes.... although they were said in a playful manner!

My "workday" ends at 4pm - normally. That's when it's time to feed my whippet Girls, take them out and start dinner. These last few weeks I've been feeding them and taking them out real quick in the back yard.... and then squeezing in some more work time -- then jumping in on dinner prep - eat - dishes - and back to work.

Yesterday I finally stopped at 4pm, fed the Girls and took each of them for a walk on our block. It was WONDERFUL!!! When you work away from home, you have your commute home (be it driving, train, bus) to kind of unwind for the day. When you work at home - we often jump right from working on work to working on house stuff - ie: dinner.

Now after dinner I did some more things that were business related - but it was because I wanted to - and it was more relaxing.

It is VERY important to remember to have an "end" to your regular work day and to have SOME way to wind down. If you don't, you may find yourself in burnout someday -- or having some unhappy family members who say all you do is work!

The Dangers of Working from Home

The danger of weight gain I mean! When I first started working from home full time, I thought "Great, now I can fit exercise into my day!" Well, 5 years later I'm still not consistent with that.

I know it's very hard to try to fit exercise into your schedule when you work another job besides your own biz. Heck, you are working 2 jobs! It can also be very easy,though, to "forget about" exercising if/when you start to work full time from home.

Our health is very important!!! If you work from home full time - if you don't work - you don't get paid! No sick days - so it's especially important to keep healthy.

I'm trying to fit walking into my schedule... just on my block. I can't do much more than that anymore because of my bad back. (I used to jog!) For me, I have to choose an exercise that is easy and convenient to do. If I have to drive somewhere to do it, it will NEVER get done!

However, I'm not doing very well right now... I've got 2 shows coming up soon -- so what's the first thing to get eliminated from my schedule? Exercising. NOT a good idea!!

Hmmmm... maybe now that I've talked about it "in public" it may help me to be better disciplined about it. One can only hope!!!