The Home Office

AUSTIN - A document was signed a few months ago that dramatically changed my work environment for the immediate future. What was it? Well, it was a contract that gifted my office to a customer here in Austin after they agreed to work closer with my company. This means I now work from home.

Working from home is not all that bad. I don't have the hour to hour-and-a-half commute everyday. I also don't have to get dressed up everyday.

That's the beginning of the end right there.

I used to get up religiously and go to the gym at 6.30a.m. Now, I roll out of bed and start answering emails or frantically setting up for meetings (read as "conference calls")--the gym happens around lunchtime.

I used to shave pretty much everyday. Now, you're lucky if that happens once or twice a week.

I used to shower everyday. Now, I still shower everyday--just later than usual.

Here's what I'm going to commit to do in the New Year:

Get into a schedule and stick to it.

I think that will help solve my Home Office woes. If you can really call them that.