Moms, want to work at home but don’t know where to start? Wish you could make money in your spare time but aren’t sure how to succeed?
There’s only one piece of advice you really need: Don’t do the laundry.
That’s it, the most useful thing I can tell you.
Never ever, no matter what, do the laundry during the hours you’ve earmarked for work.
Here’s why following that advice is so key.
When you refuse to interrupt your work to throw in a load of wash, you’re making a statement to yourself that your job — whether it’s to earn money or fulfill your creativity or both — comes before even the most negligible of chores. You allow yourself to focus completely on your work, and to fully inhabit your role as writer or web developer or lawyer.
And you force yourself to look to your work for a sense of accomplishment and worth, which may be ultimately more satisfying but a lot harder to come by via writing than laundry-doing. For women, getting the laundry done — or straightening up the house or cooking dinner — can seem intrinsically valuable, while the rewards of working may feel more difficult to pin down. Which is exactly why it’s more important to push through a thorny work problem than going to the easier hit of folding the clothes.
Photo from MorgueFile.
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