Time To Get Mobile And Break Free
January of 2009 marks the dawn of a new era — complete freedom. Working from home, at least for me, sucks in terms of time and productivity. My kids are home and my wife is at work. See the conflict? I have limited time during the day and because of that I am forced to work into the wee hours of the night, sometimes until 2AM. Well, that’s not working for me, never has, never will and my productivity suffers because of it. If I work past 12AM, I feel like I got hit by a Mack truck in the morning no matter how late I sleep in. Come 2009 this will no longer be an issue.
When my youngest son was born my wife expressed her desire to stay home with the kids as a full-time Mom. At the time it just wasn’t a possibility. My business was still very much the infant and the income was not stable enough for her to quit her job.
I’m a people person, for the most part. Though there are some days where I think I would just rather be dropped in a jungle to live with the apes, rather then deal with the insanity and stupidity of todays society. Like my father, I like to talk and interact, and like Gary Vaynerchuk, I want to meet as many people as I can before I leave this rock. I believe my days in food service really fostered this. In food service you meet new people everyday, and while my home office is nice, I’m not really able to meet anybody new, at least not face-to-face anyway. God Bless Twitter!
Freedom, I think ultimately, is what people that work from home are striving for, if they aren’t, they should be. Because everything else falls into line after freedom is achieved.
The brain is a fickle thing, if you tell it to think, it won’t. It’s known that a change of scenery can do a person lot of good. And thats what I’m looking most forward to come 2009 — the mobility. Most of the ideas I have come up with, be they website ideas, scripts or blog posts, have been while I was in the shower or while driving. Jay-Z, arguably one of the greatest emcee’s of our time, has been quoted in interviews confessing the same thing, that his best songs have been constructed in his head, while driving.
In November I will be purchasing a new laptop. Dude, I’m getting a Dell! The clunky IBM I have now, which hasn’t been used in years, just doesn’t cut it anymore. Paper Weight status. And soon after I will be hitting the streets. Panera, Starbucks, Bagel World. It’ll be a different place everyday.
My wife got her wish. I believe it will be good for her health and sanity. Office politics, especially in a room full of women, has sent her over the edge more than a few times.
Personally, I just can’t wait to see what ideas pop into my mind when I’m able to feed off fresh air, coffee, bread and interaction. Sky’s the limit!
