successful home working
Hip, hip, home working hurray from me
I’ve been tweeting to ask home workers to share their achievements and breakthroughs, their home working hurrays, but do you know, I’ve not had a single reply yet. You are obviously all far too modest to go broadcasting your success, so I’d better start by blowing my own trumpet and hope you’ll join in!
I quickly checked my tweets on Saturday morning before going out, which is always a bit of a risk as often when you ‘have a quick look’ at the computer on days off you find things you’d rather not see. But I was delighted to find these tweets from Kelly Ward who runs a cleaning business in Telford and has just read my book Work from Home:
‘Finished your brill book on hols,who knew I was an introverted, intuitive, auditory/kinaesthetic type with Crackberry habit!
‘Fab book, lots of tips in a well written and personable manner…enjoyed the read and will pass it onto others’ 
It made my day that Kelly had enjoyed the book and picked up some useful tips and especially that she had identified some of her personality traits and preferences – the ‘introverted, intuitive’ etc bit!
I firmly believe that you only get the best out of working from home if you understand yourself and so know how to tailor your home working life to your own personality and circumstances. Chapter 2 in the book covers these points, but I think it’s about time I mentioned them here too. Come back soon if you want to find out whether you are similar to Kelly or maybe sensing, perceiving or visual, and how this apparently trivial information can help you make more of working from home.
OK, enough preening from me. Who’s going to help me make it Thankful Thursday by celebrating a recent success?
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Hi Judy, what a lovely idea. I’m in a similar position to Helen. Working from home has meant I could become a published author (a dream come true) of a series of relaxation CDs for children. And I’ve been able to build a site to sell them from myself: http://www.MagicalMeditations4Kids.com
They are available from all good bookshops from mid October – so lots more celebrating then
much love, Heather xx-
Hi Heather,
We spend lots of time thinking about how to overcome working from home challenges, so I thought it would be nice to concentrate on our brilliance. Sounds like you and Helen might have a good child-friendly synergy.
Despite all the material available on the internet here’s still nothing quite like seeing your own work on the shelves in a bookshop!
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I had my 15 minutes of fame last week when I got interviewed on BBC Surrey. Initially I thought I was going to be speaking about the launch of a new Speakers Club in Farnham, but as I drove to my interview, I heard that a public speaking coach was coming into the studio to conduct a social experiment. They had a very nervous speaker who was going to get 5 minute coaching from the expert (me!) and everyone would be able to hear the difference. If you would like to read about my experience or hear the interview, click here. http://bit.ly/ae1WSO
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Today is my business Scarletta Media’s 1st birthday and I am going to celebrate. As a year ago I had no idea what lay ahead and it has been one hell of a rollercoaster ride.
So today I am celebrating my own success as however large or small, I am pretty proud of myself for sticking with it, what I have learnt, the great people I have met and all the wonderful people who have joined in and supported me and Scarletta every step of the way!
And I will purchase the Working from Home book Judy – as the great information on here and on Twitter that you share has been fabulous! Thank you Mel
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My wobbly home working hurray consists of Jelly and Cake!
My main work from home ‘alone’ occupation as an independent financial analyst of foreign currencies is psychologically challenging, isolating and lonely. When I came across the Jelly coworking concept I decided it would be an ideal way for me to get away from my home office (and the 24 hour business news) now and again to meet and work alongside other people. There being no Jelly coworking events in my area, I followed the advice in the Work from Home Wisdom Jelly articles and started one – Chiltern Jelly.
The first Chiltern Jelly event took place at the beginning of August, hosted for free by FunkBunk (a coworking/workhub studio) on the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire border in Wing – http://funkbunk.com – Our second Jelly (again at FunkBunk) is on Wednesday 1st September. Thanks to going head to head with my co-organiser, Hayley, in the celebrated Chiltern Jelly bake off, word seems to have spread that we provide great home baked cake and tickets for September 1st are not only already sold out but there are people on the waiting list hoping to pick up a cancellation. Hurray! Chiltern Jelly is on the map… tickets went like hot cakes!
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Actually it sounds like Chiltern Jelly has a very firm base,not wobbly at all! I’m sure you’ll find that you benefit enormously from all the connections you make as a Jelly organiser. Sounds as though, like me, your usual working day is very different from a Jelly day – I’ll be talking about how different people respond to getting out and about next week. Good luck with the baking!
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Working form home is the only way I could have created my blog (businessplusbaby.com) and written two books as a mum to children aged 1 and 2 with virtually no childcare. The ability to do a bit of work here and there in evenings and nap times is the only way it could have worked.