There are lots of books telling you how to find a career working from home...but hardly any devoted to giving you advice on how to make it work once you take the plunge!
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020 created millions of HomeWorkers who quickly discovered the challenges involved:
- Finding balance work with home life
- Handling distractions, including kids and homeschooling duties!
- Drowning in clutter
- Decreased productivity
- Effect on mental health & wellbeing
Help is here!
Nik Haley is a composer, writer, husband and father. After twenty years of HomeWorking (working from home), he presents this compendium of advice and cautionary tales, exploring the rewards, the pitfalls, the challenges, the benefits, the quirks and the hacks.
Throughout his career, Nik has used himself as a human guinea pig for all manner of products, services, techniques and methodologies that promise to make HomeWorking easier. Here, he brings you the fruits of those trials (and errors), presenting a now tried and tested formula for how to maximise your productivity and your happinessat the same time.
This is a success manual and survival guide for anyone who does anything to make money from home, including entrepreneurs, remote workers/telecommuters, parents juggling career and kids, retirees supplementing their pensions, students with a side hustle, professionals self-isolating in times of illness, artists/musicians/writers/creatives, YouTubers, bloggers, influencers, social media managers, virtual assistants, online educators ...and anyone else whose career allows them to work from home, or anywhere else!
You're going to learn:
- How to beat procrastination and make your productivity skyrocket.
- How to develop a HomeWorker mindset.
- How to start your own HomeWorking business.
- Juggle everything by separating your home and work life to find balance.
- The importance of looking after your wellbeing.
- How to create your perfect workspace.
- How to avoid overwhelm, burnout and stress.
- How to be a good boss and employee - because you're both!
- How best to HomeWork with kids in the house.
- Diet and nutrition advice centred around easy, fast home cooking.
- Exercise tips for effective, short, home-based workouts.
- How to set goals, track progress and hold yourself accountable.
- How to build a daily routine that works for you.
- How to plan your day to make the most of your work hours.
- How to build winning habits that become second nature.
We'll focus on how you're going to take responsibility for yourself, placing equal emphasis on your success and your happiness.
It's time to make HomeWorking work for you!
Author Biography:
I'm Nik Haley, a composer, writer, husband and father who's worked from home his entire career, occasionally venturing out to conduct orchestras, record TV shows or perform at arenas like the O2 and Wembley. But mostly I compose music for TV from my home studio. I've faced many struggles over my career to balance my home life and working day and after a lot of trial and error, I've found some really effective solutions. I had the idea for The Happy HomeWorker in January 2020, right before the coronavirus pandemic began. Little did I know that HomeWorking was about to become such a hot topic! I'd grown tired of seeing so many blogs, articles and videos about what jobs people can do to make money working from home, yet very little content designed to help people once they start. So I started work on The Happy HomeWorker. It wasn't easy, especially once the lockdown started and I had to homeschool my kids on top of my workload. But it DID give me the chance to put my money where my mouth was and live out the advice I was busy giving others! Finishing the book felt great, and though I'll never leave music behind, it has proved to me that I also want to write more...both nonfiction and fiction, so watch this space!
