Work From Home: When to Quit

Video Transcript

"When you're working from a home office and you want to be productive, one thing that you need to watch, watch out for is the tendency to over do it. Now, for some that doesn't a problem with working at home office, maybe their problem is it's hard to get enough done. But then for myself and for other people who really enjoy what they do, sometimes you just don't know when to quit and you just really, to be successful long term, working in a home office environment, you need to know when to call it quits. If you been working on a project for ten hours and your family probably would like to see you and spend time with you and you probably want to have a life and you know, in theoretically supposed the things that you probably should want, outside of your work; so really you just have to know if you needed to set a specific limit for yourself, like I will not work past seven o'clock, no matter what. Or, I'll not work past five o'clock, whatever, whatever you, whatever time you begin working vs. when you stop working. For some that really works really well. Further people they don't have a structure, schedule per se, they would just keep on track on their time and say, "I'm not working more than eight hours or more than four hours", whatever it might be. So, but it is good to kind of set that limit for yourself. People who work at home who don't have any kind of limit on how the amount of work they're willing to do, will sometimes end up working sixty, seventy eight hour work weeks. And you don't want that to happen to you. So you know, set some limits for yourself and stick to them and you're going to be a lot happier and you're actually going to be a lot more successful long term because you're not going to burn out."