The Little Freedoms Make A Huge Impact

Donna — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:26:44 +0000

Over on eMoms at Home, Dawud Miracle wrote a post called Knowing When To Slow Down. In it, he says, “Freedom, which I mostly define as a flexible schedule, is my main reason for being self-employed.” But he goes on to say “What I’ve come to realize over the years is that being self-employed has given far more little opportunities for freedom then it does large ones.”

That is a huge and wonderful truth about this business of working online (in your pajamas). It isn’t the fact that I can take long, luxurious vacations when I want. (I never do that, but I guess I could). It isn’t the fact that I can take short, weekend vacations in the middle of the week (I sometimes do that). The wonderful freedoms of what I do are the littlest freedoms of all.

If I get bored, I can get up and go watch the hummingbirds fight over the food in the feeder, without timing myself to make sure I don’t go over my allotted 10 minutes for a break. Or, if I can’t figure something out, and really need some quality “think time”, I can get up, walk around my land, and let the heat and hay smells clear my brain enough to let the creative thoughts through. Again, I don’t have to look at the time to make sure I get back to the office before the boss notices I’m gone.

Every day, after lunch, when that oh-so-sleepy feeling washes over me, I don’t have to struggle to fight it. I don’t have to continue to work through it, hoping my boss won’t notice I’m not being very productive. I just get up, crawl into my bed, and take a nap. A nap is the biggest little freedom I have these days, and I absolutely love being able to sleep for an hour or two in the middle of the day.

I could ramble on and on about all of the little freedoms that working from home has given me, but I think you get the point. I never underestimate these little freedoms. I know that no matter how many more hours I may work, each one of those little freedoms makes it all seem like no work at all.

I don’t need to be rich, and I don’t need to travel to far-off exotic lands. I only need to make a living, and have the little freedoms that I’m blessed with by working from home. Those things mean the world to me.

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The Little Freedoms Make A Huge Impact