Operating your own personal company can be quite demanding, on good days you can feel on top of the world, flourishing with enthusiasm, but we all have those bad days that require our inner most strength and willpower in order to get through the day.
My personal experience of running a business has been what I call a “rewarding rollercoaster”. I always encourage people to start a business doing something they enjoy. It’s a well-known fact, if we enjoy doing something, we will put our heart and soul into it. If you get enjoyment form your work, the bad days will be better to overcome.
I always imagined working at home to be a wonderful easy life! Boy was I wrong. Running a home based business can be quite demanding. You will need to ensure there is a healthy home life and work balance, quite difficult when you love your job I can tell you! My office is attached to my house and I spend 90% of my time in the office. I guess this really is one downside of doing a job you love…you never want to leave it!
As well as obtaining a great work and home life balance, if you work at home you’ll want to take into account the environment you work in. I have severe scoliosis and suffer a great deal of back pain because of the severity of the curvature and the compression on the rest of my body. As I’ve had Scoliosis since the age of 2, I adapted my posture and means of doing things appropriately. My stubbornness hasn’t necessarily helped me. I recently had an impartial expert come to my office and inspect my equipment. Unsurprisingly my position at my workstation was not good; they explained how my posture was in fact causing lower back pain. I’ve now changed my chair, desk as well as other equipment so that i am not putting extra strain on my body.
I never before considered getting advice regarding back pain relief. I always had the mindset that i just had to cope with it.
I’m so pleased I have started looking into scoliosis and back pain in general. I am not a lover of pain relief in the form of pills so to find some online experts has been an enlightening experience.
Managebackpain.com is my favourite online resource. You can tell that the lady who runs it knows her stuff and more importantly ‘enjoys what she does’. Passion is everything with regards to business.