The Work at Home Balancing Act: The Professional Resource Guide for Managing Yourself, Your Work, and Your Family at Home
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Product Description
Working at home allows you to take control of your life, be your own boss, and make your own hours–and it represents a major lifestyle change that you need to be prepared for if you’re going to succeed. This unique book, written by a successful home worker and based on extensive interviews with more than one hundred people who work at home, will help you determine your suitability for working at home, choose a fitting line of work, and create a plan for making a smooth transition. You’ll learn how to maximize your work productivity and add quality time to your personal life by: communicating your needs to family, friends, and clients, establishing boundaries, managing family and household responsibilities, dealing with isolation, a lack of motivation, and self-imposed stress, keeping yourself on track, organizing your time and space, achieving a successful business start-up or telecommuting arrangement, managing and growing your home business.
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The future of work for many of us will be in our home–and we need to prepare for it. This book is the Bible for what it will be like, what we need to think about, and how work at home may be a part of our future.
Rating: 5 / 5
It’s not easy trying to stay focused and motivated while working at home. Sandy Anderson’s book provides the necessary tools to not only stay focused and motivated, but to maintain your sanity too.
Rating: 5 / 5
As freeways become more conjested and quality child care more difficult to come by, growing numbers of individuals are considering the “work-at-home” lifestyle. If you are looking in this direction and want to be well informed before deciding to make the change, this book is a must read. It is brim full of practical suggestions and lists of recommended resources to make your work-at-home adventure a successful one.
–Diane Holt, Ph.D., Educational Consultant
Rating: 4 / 5
As I write this in my home office, the dogs are barking, the phone is ringing, the washing machine is over-flowing…and I’m trying to start my work day at 9 PM. I desperately need a book like Sandy Anderson’s “The Work-at-Home Balancing Act.” Maybe you do too. It offers great advice and practical guidance. Tom Greening, Psychology Professor, Saybrook Graduate School
Rating: 5 / 5
I wrote a review on this book earlier. I’m adding additional comments because I’m finding Anderson’s book to be an ongoing resource. I’ve worked at home for some time now — and it’s great to find a book that is useful for rejuvenation and for stimulating my thinking when I get “stuck”. Here’s how it worked for me this week. At the beginning of this week, I found myself lacking motivation — “in a funk” you might say. As I sat in my stuck-ness, I recalled Anderson’s chapter on motivation. SO I picked up her book, found a corner to sit in and worked through her suggestions for motivating yourself. It worked! I used her ideas to develop my own motivation list. Long story short, I not only had a very productive day, but a very productive week followed! This book is proving to be one of those books that I keep close at hand for my own personal growth. Once again — I highly recommend Anderson’s book for new and old “work-at-homers!
Rating: 5 / 5