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Once you have dusted some of the day off of you and given yourself a fresh dose of inspiration, it's time to go into your home office and get to work. But alas...just because YOU have dusted off some of the negativity that the world dishes out, doesn't necessarily mean that the people you live with have done the same!!! You walk in the house and you can just "feel" the negative energy. Your spouse is having a bad day, your kids are not bringing joy at his moment:-). This is difficult, I know. I am a person who is very sensitive to the energy in my environment. The people around you are probably not as positive as you are. You are working on something that inspires you, and is helping you to be a better person. You might have just spent the previous half an hour getting your self in the right frame of mind, and in one minute...poof...you are back into negativity.
The best thing you can do is to plan ahead for this. At some point down the road, I will talk about action planning. When I teach action planning, and when I do it myself, one of the most important things is to foresee potential obstacles, and create a plan to deal with them ahead of time. It's not likely you'll anticpate them all, but you will be able to get many of them. In this case, this is a very predictable obstacle to your frame of mind, which is directly related to your productivity.
Your home environment will, more often than not, have negative energy in it. You have to rise above it. First, let everyone know in advance what your schedule is and how important it is that you have a peaceful environment in which to focus. This won't really matter to them day to day because it will take a while for them to understand it, and they will still be naturally caught up in their own stuff day to day...this is just life in a family. BUT it will matter that you have told them in advance, because this will have a door already open for you to let them know that you must excuse yourself from what is going on to build your business (this doesn't apply to emergency situations of course...this is about the small stuff that tends to be most of the stuff!).
If possible, have a work space that has a door that you can close. I didn't for my first few years, because of the limitations of my living conditions, but then I just put myself as out of the way as I could. It's important to have dedicated space that you can "clock in" to. Especially in your early days of working when you are learning the habits of self-discipline, and focus, and you need peace and quiet in which to be most effective. As you become more experienced and settle in to the ease of the long term, you can talk to people in your shorts on your deck watching a sunset with your favorite music on (sounds good doesn't it?), and it doesn't reduce your productivity.
The next thing that you want to make clear to everyone in the family is that when you go into this workspace and shut the door...it is not to be opened unless there is a true emergency. If you were working part time at a job to further your family's financial state, they wouldn't be able to come barging into your job with a homework question, or if Aunt Matilda calls, or if they can't agree with who's turn it is to use the Wii. And this would be if you were working a part time job, that's sole function is to temporarily meet a cash flow need....in this case you are building a business that can make everyone in the household's life much better!
All for now...