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You work at from home your own pace, decline and accept jobs at will, work at your comfort zone, work at your time window and don’t have any boss to yell at you for showing up at work late.
All these liberties aren’t free of their consequences. You can escape them when you are just starting as a freelancer with very few workloads on your desk.
However, things will change drastically when you become successful and if you can’t balance your work-life situation, it will take a toll on you. And this is one of the common mistakes freelancers make.
You will have little time for family and friends, no socialization, you become a loner, you lose your life in work, the family will encroach into your workspace and compound things for you and many other consequences will follow.
Living a healthy lifestyle as a freelancer is important for you and that’s what this article intends to do – show you how you can achieve that.
5 Tips on How to Live a Healthy Lifestyle as a Freelancer
1. Create a Workspace
For the better of your life as a freelancer, you will be working from home, especially when you just set your first foot on the door of freelancing. In this kind of setting, you can easily find yourself entangled in both worlds –your work life and your private life.
It’s hardly possible to live a healthy lifestyle and be productive when you are distracted, juggling between home activities and work life.
One of the first steps to leading a healthy lifestyle as a freelancer is to draw vivid lines between your work life and your private life. To achieve this, create a workspace in your home. No matter how small of a cubicle it is, just create one but ensure you are at least comfortable there.
With this in place, you must have achieved your very step in finding a balance between your work life and the rest of your other lives as a freelancer working from home.
2. Create Working Schedules and Stick to Them
You are own boss and you choose when to work. That’s sweet but can be bitter if you don’t allocate time for it.
When you schedule a time for work, say you decide to work at night only, you can have ample time in the day to socialize, workout, attend to family needs, rest for the task at night, sustain relationships and address every other aspect of your life that needs attention.
When the sunsets, you know this is work time and every other thing is placed on hold until the next day. Deadlines can be met without disappointing clients and you won’t have to miss out on a friend’s graduation party because you are stuck at work.
This work schedule can be made flexible to suit your lifestyle. You can even choose to work for a few hours in the morning and continue at night. Bottom-line is; work and still have time for yourself, family, friends and lead a healthy lifestyle.
3. Eat Healthy, Exercise and Rest
Getting your eyes fixed on your computer’s screen for hours can be strenuous. This is what you will be doing for the rest of your career lifespan as a freelancer. And so it calls for eating healthy. Get a balanced diet meal plan and follow it up.
Once in a while, hit the gym or jog in the wee hours of the morning. Getting glued to your seat and desk can lead to back pain and some minor bone problems if you don’t steal our time to stretch those bones and exercise.
When you exercise regularly, your body stays active and you leave no room for laziness which could affect your deadlines.
You need to also find time and rest. One nap would suffice in the middle of your work. When you are through with the nap, you will realize how creative and productive it was taking it in the first place.
You approach your work refresh and recreated. It all leads to a smooth sail. For writers, it can cure writer's block. Rest is important to lead a healthy lifestyle beyond even freelancing.
4. Take a Day Off
That’s the beauty of freelancing. You can decide that today, you are accepting no jobs and you want to just cool off.
This could happen once every two weeks or a month, the most important thing is to take that time off.
Your lifestyle and self-esteem are boosted by doing this alone.
As a freelancer, there are times when you are slapped with tons of work on your plate. You work and work and work until you are famished. This can continue for weeks at the expense of the relationship you have with family and friends.
So take that time off and heal off the wounds caused by your work life. Rejuvenate yourself in the process and stay healthy.
5. Hydrate
While coffee might seem like the official drink for freelancers, don’t forget water is the ultimate substance in the universe.
If you are dehydrated, you can lose focus and drain yourself out. Coffee can’t save you this time. A bottle of water should be at your table at all times.
Your PC generates some form of heat that could be negligible but can contribute to your dehydration unconsciously.
You need more water than you think you do as a freelancer. However, you are not alone if you don’t like the idea of plain water. You can spice it up using cucumbers, lemons, mint and other fruits that contain plenty of water.
This can replace water and coffee for you and leave you hydrated all the time.
Remember, water is the ultimate –not coffee.
This doesn’t mean you should do away with coffee. You can always alternate between both as you please.
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FUEL YOUR BELLY WITH JUST #10 WITH THE OFood HUNGER SUPPRESSION CAMPAIGN
ReplyDelete‘It's hard to resist seemingly good deals when we see them, whether it be a bargain home in a pricey neighborhood, a tempting cable company promotion or a #100 T-shirt.’
The OPay group is at it again, breaking new market grounds with its unbelievable, jaw-dropping marketing strategy like never before with the introduction of the OFood subsidiary. Riding on the back of the successes of OPay and ORide, the OFood seeks to reduce hunger challenges amongst masses whose ‘not-yet-implemented' minimum wage income is so meager and abysmal to be less of a critic.
A pilot project of the OFood, to make it more convenient and inexpensive for the masses to eat nutritiously and also eat to their fill birth the ‘HUNGER SUPPRESSION CAMPAIGN’. "Access to sumptuous delicious delicacies cannot and must not, be a luxury, available only to the few"- this has been the goal of the OFood for the Nigerian populace as the group keeps expanding into other major cities as well as diverse aspects of the food and food-related markets. Access to good food is a morality (necessity) that must be put in place for all and sundry. All residents of this great country we call home, need sumptuous and palatable food options at cheap prices, and at just ‘#10’, can it get any better?
From the popular ‘party jollof rice' to the popular native combo meals like eba with egusi or amala with ewedu ati gbegiri, the Lagos metropolis is still in awe and are still skeptical of this ‘too good to be true' #10-per-plate deal! And guess what? The delivery is free for both new users as well as regular users of the service. Well, what do you expect from a country that has constantly defied gravity as everything is on the rise? Especially now that garri (granulated dry cassava) sells for over #50 for a tin-milk portion.
Although the ‘#10' campaign is only for new users on initial orders, regular users were also considered. For that meal you've been craving for all day long from your select food vendor, make an order and get over 38% discount on all orders on the OPay platform inclusive of the free delivery! The more orders the merrier!
“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
― Joss Whedon
The market is open to everyone, but a quick, free registration process is required before shopping on the OPay APP. We know that food prices are a big problem and the Lagos market's placement was chosen as ‘ground zero' based on human capital and just the accessibility to millions of people who have access to the internet.
Given the fact that the average household take-home isn't enough to afford the basic three-square meal of a worker, not to mention the spouse and kids, OFood is here to save the day by reducing our food burden based on the popular saying that "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well". Join the OFood train and dine well with a teeny-weeny amount of money.
In a bid to ensure that no one is left out of this delightful opportunity, we would love for you to get on board by downloading the OPay App from Google Playstore or AppStore for Android and IOS users respectively. To join the train is as easy as ABC, just register on the OPay platform, fund your account with as little as #10, make your order from your select restaurant and enjoy on-the-go.
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
― Mahatma Gandhi
No go dull am o!!!