I’ve been working from home for more than 11 years, and I truly love it. It’s provided me a very healthy life. I can eat what and when I want, exercise when I want, take naps when I want, and socialize with my family on my schedule.
I’ve joked with clients that I don’t have meetings, I don’t get memos, and I don’t have a boss. All good!
I also don’t have paid vacations, sick leave, or benefits. It’s all up to me, and that can be stressful and challenging.
I’m finding it challenging in trying to “reach” people online. Being modest and an introvert doesn’t always come across too well online. It often seems the louder and brasher one is, the more traction or exposure one gets online.
I often go back to an aikido teacher who I used to follow here in Los Angeles. He was Japanese American and had very “old school” habits. One was that he ran his dojo in the old-fashioned sense in that he was open to all, but he wasn’t “selling” memberships. As a potential student, you read about the discipline and were accepted into the dojo.
I’ve run my boot camps pretty much this way, and my income and livelihood have probably suffered because of this.
This stay-at-home order will make or break a lot of businesses. I am hopeful that when it breaks and you return to your regular ways, that you’ll look at exercise and health as a serious investment. It always pays off to be strong…both mentally and physically. As we can definitely see now.
I feel like I’ve been harping on this for a long time.
Create the habits now.
So I wonder, what new habits will you work on? What will you modify when we “get back to normal?”
