Work Challenge

In my last post I discussed how people that run a small business from home might work in a fifteen minute break for every four hours of work time. It is not something I have managed myself to implement, but I am going to make a strong effort to make it work for me. So, a challenge...

Schedule your work day to include specific breaks and stick to that break plan.

I am going to set up my work day so that after every three and a half hours of working at the computer doing my writing, I take a fifteen minute break. I will also have a thirty minute lunch break in which all I am allowed to do is prepare and slowly eat a scheduled mid work day light meal.

I am going to keep this up for one week starting tomorrow, then at the end of the week, on the following Wednesday, I will report how successful (or unsuccessful) I was in maintaining my 3.5 hours of work and fifteen minute break. And if it gave me better focus in the time that I was at the computer working.

If anyone else wants to participate in the experiment, I would love to hear their results.

Back to work

I don't really want to work, but it is one of those necessary evils in life that one simply can not avoid. So, I have started working on my websites and getting them all back up and going smoothly. We'll see just how long I can maintain them at a steady pace, but I do have high hopes for keeping up with things this time. I don't see where anyone should be able to dislodge me from my groove this time.

I have set aside the quilting I was working on, simply because when I went down to Washington for a week the start of this month I had thought someone was going to stay here taking care of the house so at the last minute I shoved all the clutter into my sewing room. Still have not got that excavated, so it will be a couple of days before I get that done. As soon as I get that all set back up, however, I will be diving right back into my sewing projects. Sewing helps my hands recover from the pain of working on the computer all day. I had not realized just how much it was helping until I have gone a couple weeks now without being able to sew for a while after a day of working at the computer.