Take a Break

When working from home, especially when you work online, you spend a lot of your time alone. You also spend a lot of tine sitting on the same chair doing the same thing.

Humans were not made to do the same thing over and over again, even though we like patterning our self and forming habits, we still do not like doing the same thing over and over. You can actually go insane when you are forced to do the same thing over and over and over.

Take a look at the origin of the American rules against cruel and unusual punishment. When you look that up you find that the punishment methods seen as the cruelest were repetitive action leading to nothing. In one prison they had a handle connected to a counter. The prisoner then had to turn the handle a specified amount of times before he got food. With time the counter wore out and started skipping count, so the prisoner simply kept on turning without getting anything.

Working from home you can create your own little handle and even if the numbers keeps on rolling over, you get stuck on going back and turning the same handle every day. No one is looking over your shoulder or interfering anyway.

Even if turning that handle becomes profitable, it is still mundanely repetitive, and sometime some ware along the line something must go. That something is usually the things money can’t buy, like the rest of your life.

There is a simple solution. Go do something money can’t buy, take a break. Not forever, an hour will do nicely. Simply get to do something you won’t be doing the rest of the day. Then get back to work.