Traditionally, working has been seen as a part of your life that is almost a fixed schedule. You work 8 hours a day, Sleep 8 hours a day, and have 8 hours for yourself. Of course as many of us know these may be the expected.
But they are often not really that accurate. There are always things that seem to push one to take up another. Things like commuting to work, gets taken away from the time for ourselves. Sleep gets cut back when something comes up. The more that comes up the more that gets taken away from personal time and sleep.
This is really where having No Fixed Office, can come into it’s own. When you are working for yourself, (or even to some extent for someone else) and you are not restrained to a set office, with set office hours, you have a lot more freedom to work, when, where and how you like.
Working can start to take on a new and more exciting point of view. As before you often would be stuck working from 9-5 in a fixed place, where you often may have been stuck to your office or cubicle. Once you can break this you can be much more freely able to work when it is easier for you to work.Maybe the following scenario might strike a chord for you;
Imagine waking up a little late, maybe 8am, taking a walk, before enjoying breakfast. Around 9.30 sitting down with your laptop, to check your email, complete a few quotes, and call a client or two. Followed by a little bit longer lunch break. The Afternoon finds you sitting at the local coffee shop with your laptop working on some projects for your clients, for a couple of hours. You get home and prepare a home cooked meal.
You Spend the evening working on one of your favorite hobbies. Then you realize, you only spent about 5 hours working today, and managed to get about twice as much done as when you used to work in an office, and did it feeling more relaxed and with not surprisingly more time to the things you enjoy.
Maybe that is not everyone’s idea of the perfect work day, but you change some times around, and change what you are doing at different times, and the same can be adapted to fit almost anyone’s perfect workday.
While you may be thinking no workday can be perfect because i have to work. Well this is something that does not become a problem when you are working in a way that you have more free time and get more done. Which is the whole reason i see having No Fixed Office is good. You are anabling yourself to have more control and to approach the day in a way that you are more comfortable with. Which you would hope could only be a good thing.