4 Reasons to Make Your Bed if You Work from Home

Get the day started right and settle into your professional mindset.

Photo by Don Simkovich

With two high school students, a seventh-grader and a couple of adult children, home gets crazy. The 7 a.m. rush hour grows nutty as several people in the kitchen jostle for counter space and burners on the stove to pour milk over cereal, cook eggs and fix lunch before dashing out the door.

The frenetic activity continues for about a half hour and then I drive our high school students, both of them girls from China who are studying in the U.S., down the street and onto the freeway.

I grip the steering wheel and my mind begins reeling off my to-do list for the day. While the mental list grows, so does my energy.

There’s always lots to get done.

After I crawl through the school’s drop-off line, I get more antsy on the drive back home. My mind is flooded with contacting potential clients to write their blog posts, ghostwrite their books and work on my next novel or short story.

My mind buzzes and when I pull in the driveway, I’m reading to zip in the front door, through the bedroom and into the adjoining home office where I settle in behind the laptop and start typing like crazy.