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to stress and depression). Working from home means that you don't have to commute down busy streets with hundreds of people walking at you during rush hour – this wreaks havoc with your heartrate.

In short, when you work from home you get to choose your priorities and you reduce the stress of working several times over. Now you can put yourself first and that's an incredibly important and valuable thing to be able to do.

The potential health benefits are transformative and life-changing. This book will show you how to start working from home if you don't already and how to take maximum advantage of that situation so that you're able to feel your very best and feel the benefits in every other area of your life.

Oh and of course this will have a powerful knock-on effect and impact on your productivity helping you to get more work done and to a much higher quality.

1.2 Working From Home: The Health Risks

But this book won't just be about capitalizing on the amazing health benefits of working from home. Just as importantly, we'll be looking at the potential health risks that working from home can pose. And make no mistake: there are many.

Think being shouted at by your boss is stressful? How about being shouted at by 10 angry clients? Or 300 angry customers who just downloaded your app?

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And here's the difference between working for someone versus working for yourself: when you work for someone else and you have an unproductive day, you still get paid.

When you work for yourself and you have an unproductive day? You get nothing .

Have a bad month? You still get nothing. That's another thing: working for yourself is highly volatile and unpredictable and that's why some people refer to bipolar depression as 'the entrepreneur's disease'.

Here's another difference: when you work for yourself, none of your friends or relatives will respect the fact that you have to work during the week. 'Oh, he/she works from home, so of course they can come and help me move out of my house/meet for lunch on a Wednesday afternoon'. Never mind that you promised your clients their work would be finished at 4pm. Never mind that you'll now have to work until 5am through the night.

And on the flip side of this, your clients won't respect that your home time is your home time. They'll think nothing of e-mailing you at 5am in the morning on a Sunday to tell you the work you handed in three days ago was rubbish.

And you'll have the same problem: you'll always be tempted to finish a little early on a Friday, or to work a little late on a Wednesday. Goodbye body clock! Goodbye healthy sleep! Goodbye good quality work .

Then there's the fact that working from home means working on your own, with no one around, in the same room you're likely to spend your evening in. You never get to leave this space and you never get any outside interaction or input. Talk about cabin fever! Heeeeere's Johnny!

Working from home gives you freedom and that freedom can give you the option to become incredibly healthy, happy and effective. At the same time though, freedom also comes with responsibility. Fail to manage that time well and it can all go wrong…

1.3 What You Will Learn

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That's the general idea and an outline of the sorts of things we'll be learning in this eBook. More specifically though, you will learn:

• What lifestyle design is and what it has to do with your health and your business

• How to apply discipline and structure when you have none

• How to avoid cabin fever

• How to manage your workflow and communicate with your clients and customers

• How to fit the right diet and training regime in around your work

• How to sleep better and see this impact on your productivity

• How to incorporate travel and spending time outside into your work

• How to work from home with your family still there

• How to transition to working for yourself

• How to generate passive income

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Overall, by the end of this book you should have the tools to create a business model and an environment that allows you to maximize your health, your happiness and your productivity. If you already have a home business, you can use this advice to restructure your routine and setup to support a happier and healthier you.

If you don't, then you can use this book to give you the confidence and the know-how to take the leap in a way that will have the very best outcome for you.

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Chapter 02 – Create your ‘Smart’

Lifestyle Design

I briefly touched on the idea of lifestyle design. What does this mean precisely?

The term 'lifestyle design' was either coined or popularized by Tim Ferriss in his book The Four Hour Workweek . The idea behind it is simple: you create the lifestyle you want out of your job.

This simply means that you think about the lifestyle you want and then you choose a career/build a business to support that.

For most of us, this works in the entirely

opposite way. Most of us will find ourselves 'landing in a job' and from there we then see the rest of our lifestyles forming around that. We get a job and

right away that dictates where we are going to live, so we normally move to that area.

At the same time, it tells us which hours we are going to work and depending on how far away we live, this will also have to include some time for a commute.

Some people will move away from their friends and family so that they can work the job they have or will even breakup relationships that were otherwise going well – all because of their jobs! And don't get it confused: these aren't jobs that they've always wanted. These aren't 'dream careers' that they have been thinking about since a young age.

No, these are jobs that they 'just kind of landed in' and are now too afraid to leave. And they're completely dictating their lives.

2.1 Lifestyle Design: The Alternative

So how does lifestyle design work in principle?

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You start out by asking:

“What type of life do I want?”

And from there, you then ask: what type of job would best facilitate that lifestyle?

If you want to spend more time with family, if you want to work while travelling the world, if you want to have a career that you find fascinating and that you're proud of… then often the first step to achieving the right lifestyle will be starting to work for yourself and online/from home.

Next you have to ask whether you want to be a busy 'high flier' or whether you'd be happier as someone whose career was 'light', flexible and would largely run itself a lot of the time. This is an important point. Many people make the mistake of thinking they want to be 'really successful' in the most stereotypical of senses and as such they create business plans that involve

taking on large numbers of staff with branches all over the world. The reality of being involved in this type of business though is that you now have no time to do things that contribute to a happy and healthy life. Likewise, you now are just as stressed and as tied down – if not moreso – than you would have been if you were working for a big organization in an office.