Payton

How do you stay focused and not get distracted all the time? I find it easier when I go to my office and try to get work done, it seems to help having some separation from home and work

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SiNJoy

Dont work at home :P, unless u have a deadline then its easier(atleast for me). Otherwise i work from the library. Only boring books there so not hard to stay focussed.

NtodaS

I often get distracted. But with the web thingy it's something im really intrested in a so it's easier to stay focused. Anyway I need a break regularly

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GeorgeB

Set up your home office, lock the door, come out for lunch and quit for dinner.

peach

It's hard for me to sperate work from school, and the rest. Especially right now because I need to complete 500 posts, several websites, and I got to do up to 13 exams next months, starting tomoroww :|

Jon

Easy. I don't force myself to focus on something for hours at a time. I'm a big fan of taking small breaks throughout the day. You have to know yourself first, and understand your habits before you can successfully focus on working from home.

Everyone thinks that when you work from home you will get more done. I think it's the opposite with most people. We're trained at an early age to go to school on time, and do lots of work within an 8 hour period. After school, 9-5 is the norm. When working from home that all changes. You are now in control of your time. Unfortunately for the work at home people, or at least for me, 9-5 is a luxury I cannot afford. I work 7 days a week, and at least 12 hours a day on a good day. When things need to get done or I've put important things aside, I'll pull a 16 hour or sometimes a 20 hour day. That's because I cannot put the blame on anyone or anything else but myself. If I don't work, my employees overseas don't get paid, my project managers don't get the necessary information they need to run successful projects, and in the end, I don't hit the revenue projections I've set for each project, and that right there is my biggest fear.

I can talk about this all day, but that would mean less work being accomplished, so I'll leave it at that.

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a.titus1

A lot of people do something to seperate the home and work time when working at home. Get up at the same time every morning. When you get up, talk a walk to get some coffee or something to emulate your drive to work and when you come home, work. Dont have a tv in your office, take a break for lunch, and then cut off and dont work after a certain time.

Pain

Lee D just built a home office,pretty cool one at that.

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V12Kid

im with Jon on this one, I take multiple breaks in the form of closing my browser, closing my im stuff and firing up BF2 to destroy some enemy tanks!

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Pain

hehe,same here. looking foward to the new game? 2142!

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VinSVT

I wish I could work at home. I do on my days off... but working in a Hosptial means loooooong shifts.

Hylo

It's all about willpower and as Jon says, not forcing yourself to concentrate on just one thing for too long a period of time. Most days I do about 12-14 hours a day but it's split up quite well, mornings are for looking at my RSS feeds, emails and adding some posts to my blogs. Afternoon is for development work on any systems I'm working on and evenings are for going through my live sites and adding bits and pieces and doing some tweaking.

Every day's different and if I keep it varied and remember that I've got bills to pay then I've no choice but to focus. The only alternative is going back to working for "The Man" and I've had enough of that already. Being self employed and working from home is the best job I'll ever have, there's no way I'd let something like daytime TV or playing PS2 fuck it up for me.

Ben

I work hard for a few hours, then take a 30 minute break... repeat.

I usually play a game, or go outside to play fetch with my dogs. Sometimes I head off to the coffee shop.

MisterX

This sounds interesting. Makes me wonder really badly how you set your goals, if a situation like that can happen!

It seems like you're pretty hard on yourself and very goal oriented.

How do you set your goals, do you set specific deadlines ?! Do you have yearly, monthly, weekly goals and projections ?!

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JDA

I work in the middle of the night, then sleep while my wife is at work, then hang out with her when she gets home, and then I go back to work when she goes to sleep. There are way less distractions for me that way.

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Jon

If that's your wife in your avatar, I have to give you major kudos.

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rento.inc

i work at night and sleep when people working..
It's so silent at night.. 12-4am GMT+7.. maybe my creative time

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donn

Put some music on that helps you concentrate.

Peter

I create a to-do list in the morning, then split my day up into different sections. I find it keeps me motivated and I get much more done.

kyleirwin

i used to work from home, it was horrible. my sleep schedule was rediculous, i had next to no social activity and was just dead to the world. now i've went back to a dayjob that keeps my sleep on schedule.

i usally even head back to the office after hours to work on my personal work, it's much easier to keep my focus there. no tv, no gf, no food, no hot tub... yeah.

ITALIA

Doing anything from home is hell. I should be studying right now. *runs* I pose a question to anybody who can study at home without distraction. How on earth do you do it? :P

JDA

Yeah, no, that's Scarlett Johansson. I do find my wife pretty attractive though, and she puts up with me so that's a definite plus.

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reteep

I got a Full Time Job as Developer and SEO Specialist. At home I work for my own business at night or sometimes at the weekend. At the moment it's working great because my girlfriend is very busy with her studies but I think it won't be that easy anymore as soon as she's done.

You automatically become distracted. In my opinion it's always better to have an own office or at least a very seperated room.

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kaizan

Nail on the head there Jon. Agreed. If you work from home, focus on many projects at once taking forced breaks (unless your on a roll).

I work 14 hours a day easily, but between that i have a game or two, go out to lunch, catch up on a few eps or whatever.

Break but pace yourself also.

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Payton

I swear she can look like 5 different people depending on the angle, so weird

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MisterX

This varies from person to person. For me, it's easier sticking with one thing until it's done, instead of shifting my attention all the time...

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jonjon

We have a new family member and he requires a potty break about every 20-30 minutes - Meet Quincy - our new golden retriever.

I used to hop on the motorcycle and go give heart failure to the local farmers and cows, but hate to put Quincy in a cage for very long - Our eye doctor told us to take a break from the computer every twenty minutes to reduce eye stress..so it all works out well..

kyleirwin

I'm the same way, It's not always easy to get goin', but once I'm coding it's hell to stop. That's why i work so much better in an office enviornment... I've got nothing to do but work so it get's me goin' quicker.

theNOTO

It makes it a lot easier if the place you go to work is specifically designed for work as well.

My office has no TV or phones and I don't take my cell in there with me.

J-Tag

You have to take breaks. Anything else will drive you insane--even if you love doing it.