Comments on: Using your 9-5 life to motivate your entrepreneur life http://birthofastartup.com/2008/03/12/using-your-9-5-life-to-motivate-your-entrepreneur-life/ Diary of an intrepid entrepreneur’s attempt to build a start-up on her own Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:30:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Laziness is a Curse | Balanced Life Blogging http://birthofastartup.com/2008/03/12/using-your-9-5-life-to-motivate-your-entrepreneur-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2665 Laziness is a Curse | Balanced Life Blogging Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:43:58 +0000 http://www.birthofastartup.com/2008/03/12/using-your-9-5-life-to-motivate-your-entrepreneur-life/#comment-2665 [...] Using your 9-5 life to motivate your entrepreneur life (birthofastartup.com) [...] [...] Using your 9-5 life to motivate your entrepreneur life (birthofastartup.com) [...]

]]> By: Benjamin http://birthofastartup.com/2008/03/12/using-your-9-5-life-to-motivate-your-entrepreneur-life/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Benjamin Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:57:19 +0000 http://www.birthofastartup.com/2008/03/12/using-your-9-5-life-to-motivate-your-entrepreneur-life/#comment-31 It is curious that winning our freedom demands that we enslave ourselves to self-discipline. I did most of my research on procrastination (lots of posts about it on my blog) when I first started working from home. I think I am through it now, but that 9-5 and the office buddies sure provides good scaffolding. Somehow we end up not feeling guilty. But the question for me is when are we most productive? Anyway... Good point - once that scaffolding comes down, it becomes our own responsibility to keep a good work-life balance. For me that meant building my own scaffolding: limiting the number of hours on the laptop. Making family time and scheduling time to 'switch off'. It hasn't been easy to undo 15 years of working in a office! It is curious that winning our freedom demands that we enslave ourselves to self-discipline. I did most of my research on procrastination (lots of posts about it on my blog) when I first started working from home. I think I am through it now, but that 9-5 and the office buddies sure provides good scaffolding. Somehow we end up not feeling guilty. But the question for me is when are we most productive?

Anyway… Good point – once that scaffolding comes down, it becomes our own responsibility to keep a good work-life balance. For me that meant building my own scaffolding: limiting the number of hours on the laptop. Making family time and scheduling time to ‘switch off’. It hasn’t been easy to undo 15 years of working in a office!

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