Why People Work From Home
Work from home studies have shown that many people who want to work from home are those who need extra income or parents who need to generate income while staying at 
home with their children. Working from home is a great solution if you can get the right job or opportunity that satisfies your passion and needs. There are many ways of working at home a discussion which I have put on a complete and separate page. Today I am going to give some working from home tips that will help you get satisfactory results from the job you have chosen to undertake.
What Is Required To Work At Home?
Working at home isn’t that easy though, it requires dedication and motivation, persistency and consistency. It calls for some special personality traits if at all you are to be successful at doing it. It requires more self discipline than working in a traditional job. If you are that kind of person who always needs to be guided by someone else then working at home would not be the perfect option for you. Again if you always want to mix with the crowd or are easily distracted, you will find it very difficult to work at home on yourself. Working at home needs to have excellent decisive thinking, organizational and communication skills. So before making any decisions to work at home know your personality and skills.
Challenges
Working at home has its own many challenges . The first is for you and your friends to take your status seriously. Many of your friends may not take your status seriously and simply believe that if you are at home you are a fair game for socialization, they may also come up with suggestions of getting a real job. Second is to deal with interruptions and distractions. There are many distractions that vie for your time, energy and focus.These include children, family, friends, neighbors, pets, video games, phone calls, mail, television, visitors and many others. Finally you have the challenge of social isolation. To work around the latter it is advised to take occasional breaks and go out for the usual buzz.
Tips On How To Be Productive Working From Home
Once you have set up your job consider it to be a professional job and give it its due respect. Make your family, friends and people around you understand that.The level of 
success of your home business and speed at which you reach it is entirely and completely dependent on you and the decisions that you make. You had your own reasons to start a home business,stay focused and keep your reasons in the forefront. Rely on your own self and your own dedication to get success in your home business. Consider doing the following to help you stay focused on your home business:
1. Setting your working hours Remember your home based business is lot like a real job and your income is directly proportional to your productivity. Wouldn’t it be then wise to stay focused and get as much done in as short a period as possible? It is therefore important that you schedule your activities as much as possible and dedicate a specific number of hours each day to your work.
2. Setting aside a consecrated office room
3. Dressing as if going to a real traditional office
4. Find ways to wave away all sources of distractions and temptations. Make your family and friends understand that in between certain fixed times you are working and if they want to socialize then they should wait for the times when you are not working.You must stand firm on this! Don’t allow your friends and family run over you.They will seldom understand and appreciate your dedication to your home business unless you make the effort to make sure that they have the same respect for your home business that you do.
What Are The Advantages Of Working From Home?
Working at home has many advantages, among them being: financial savings from 
transport, health advantages, freedom from being scorned over by your boss and working without adhering to a dressing code. Read my other page “ 10 Benefits Of Starting A Home Based Business” to get more on this.
On this article we have seen why people want to work from home, what is required to work at home successfully, the challenges you would face while working at home and some tips to help you be productive while working at you own home. On separate articles I have written on the benefits of starting a home based business and how to find a real work at home business opportunity.
Feel free to comment or raise any questions on the above topic, I will be more than happy to answer them all.
Cheers;
Laurian.