This is the first post in the Smart Mind, Body and Spirit category of the blog. While this area may not (immediately) sound like it has anything to do with homeworking, it most certainly does. In fact, if you don’t pay attention to this stuff from the very start of your homeworking career, you can pretty much throw all of your home business plans out of the window.
Why? Well, I’m going to make an assumption. It’s a pretty safe one. I am going to assume that you fall into one of two categories right now. Your life, in other words, is either Type A or Type B. This has nothing to do with personality types; it is just something I have created, so go with me on it.
The Two Types
Type A lives are spent in an office or some other four-walled environment. In other words, you have a full or at least part-time job.
Type B lives are spent at home, working. Whether you are enjoying it or not is irrelevant for the purposes of this post. You are at home and you are working, that’s it.
Now, your mind, body and spirit have a massive impact upon your life, whether it is a Type A or B life. If you need to know why, just ask yourself this question: what happens if I get sick?
Before I go on, I’m not talking about serious illness, I’m talking about a bad cold, or a stomach bug, or a migraine, basically any of the millions of reasons that get thrown up at about 7.30 am every Monday morning. That kind of sick.
The Type A people get paid to be this kind of sick (the majority of them at least). At the very worst, they have to have some kind of interview when they return from their sickness, where a manager asks them some questions that go on file so that they can be reviewed if this kind of sickness turns into absenteeism. The whole process is generally harmless, and never turns into a major problem, because sickness like this is usually intermittent.
The Type B people, however, do not get paid to be sick.
Why You Cannot Afford To Get Sick
The Type B people are totally responsible for the income that comes into their Type B life. If they get sick, they have to rely upon their Type B life savings, or get their Type B behind back in the saddle pretty damn quick, so that they can catch up on the income generating work that puts bread on the table.
So you can appreciate why your mind, body and spirit is so important. If your mind isn’t working, you can’t be creative, you can’t concentrate, and your income suffers. If your body suffers, you can’t work to your best potential. If your spirit suffers, you aren’t motivated; you can’t stay strong, and so on.
So that is why we are going to be looking at how you can develop a Smart Mind, Body and Spirit. And I do not in any way exaggerate when I state that this could well be the most important area of this blog.
We are going to be taking a look at one of the most vital sources of Smartness in the next post in this category. That source is water, and we are going to see just how crucial water is to the life of the Smart Homeworker.
So until then, get your Type B behind back in that saddle, and work smart.
