I’m on the road for two weeks with family - not a business trip but not totally a vacation - and am having a tough time getting into a groove so I can actually get some work done - including blogging here. The time zones are mixing me up, I’m forgetting what day it is, I’m having a heck of a time finding a consistent Internet connection, and all my organizational tactics seem useless when I’m not sitting at my home office.

Because I’ll be traveling for another week and a half, I’m trying to find solutions to my work-from-the-road challenge. If I were traveling on business, I’d have everything I needed to stay organized including a constant wifi connection because any hotel that hosts conferences is wired and a set schedule of meetings or events that I could use to know what day it is and estimate time to keep track of when I can do my own work.
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It is nighttime, but in Alaska, it is still light. I’m exhausted. Then suddenly, I remember that I forgot to post to this blog today. Where did the day go? And how did I run out of time?

If you are like me, working from home has its pros and cons. I still firmly believe that the positives greatly outweigh the negatives, however, if I look back at my day today, there were several times that working out of the home would have helped me get my work done.

By default, being in an office - especially with other people around - creates a different sense of urgency to your work, a need to adhere to the timelines of others, a strong sense of responsibility that others are depending on you and they are right there in the same office with you.
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