I have never had a job.
Beginning in High School I made money online. However the first profitable campaign was just before getting my Bachelor’s degree. Even though I continued to study officially, after 6 months I was making profits that were matching the income bracket of getting a Master’s degree. So I stopped attending university and went to Thailand in 2015.
The biggest issue though when working from home is how to control the psyche.
It’s contra intuitive to be working alone in a room with a laptop and occasional meetings via GMeet, Zoom or Telegram calls.
Occasionally I did rent an office and had partners I worked together with in the same room for extended periods of time. However mostly my experience in remote work involves being alone in the room.
How is it possible then to stay motivated?
What are the basics of self motivation?
- Pomodoro Method with a physical Kitchen timer (DONT USE AN APP!)
- Journaling and gratitude
- Rehearsing success every day by imagining how a successful day looks like
- Atomic Habit Tracker
- Time Tracking
- Reframing bad events into seeds of equal or greater opportunity
- Resolving mental health issues and PTSD with Entheogens and other techniques that move the brain into alternate states of consciousness
- Optimizing Sleep, Diet and Exercise
- Optimizing air, water and food quality
I can elaborate each one of these parts in further writing.