Being Productive At Home Is Easy… Relaxing at home is hard!

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I’ve read a fair bit about “how to work at home” all of which discuss “things” and “stuff” like having a dedicated office, or regular hours, or other explicit, quantitative measures. I don’t worry too much about having dedicated space because I don’t have any problem working from home.

But I’ve never read anything about explicitly handling the emotional component.

Basically, nowadays when I’m working at home, I’m emotionally at work. This means I can surf the internet looking for information about parametric representation of buildings, but I won’t be checking into Facebook or Twitter too much.

I can even shut down all my email.

And my iPhone!

The problem has changed from being productive at home… to being able to relax at home! Lately, I’ve been forcing myself to leave my home to take a break! That’s kind of crazy, and I’m not sure I like it.

Maybe having that dedicated space might be smart after all!

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