Butterflies: Thriving in Social Situations PLR; Are Friends and Family Distracting You?

Published: Sat, 05/01/21


How's your weekend going? We ventures over to that local Cinnaholic place this week so we might go for a snowcone today - I was craving both, but had to choose. I ended up getting a cinnamon bun with cream cheese frosting, fresh blueberries, mini chocolate chips and almond slivers. It was so good! 

We've been getting rain here recently, which is good for my new lawn. The sod we installed is looking amazing, too! So happy we did that. It was a lot of work because we only had it delivered and installed it ourselves, but SO worth it. I'll be doing more next year. We just wanted to do a test patch this year before I invested in a lot to cover 3/4 of an acre. 

Okay, here's what I have for you today...

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Are Friends and Family Distracting You?

Your friends and family love you and as soon as you start working from home, they get excited at the thought of you being more accessible when they want to spend time with you. 

This can be a big issue because it’s hard to say no to the people that you care about. But it can cause you to get behind on work projects, and it can make you feel pressured and stressed. 

The reason that family and friends behave this way is because their lives don’t necessarily look like yours. They may have more free time. When they’re home, they’re not working, so they don’t get that when you’re at home, you’re not just relaxing on the sofa watching whatever is on television. 

You might experience the friend who needs help with something like an errand or she wants you to babysit her kids so she can run errands on her own. Or, you have the friend who drops by just to chat or have a cup of coffee. I had a friend when I first started working at home - we were both new moms - and she kept dumping her baby off on me unexpectedly. I finally told her no - that I was working - and she wasn't my friend after that. LOL!

Relatives might show up unannounced. They might want you to go out to eat with them or go do an activity together. Though your friends and family may be well meaning, you have to understand that your priorities aren’t the same. 

So they’re not going to act like they’re on board with your priorities when you’re working. Usually though, it’s just because they don’t understand. They don’t know what’s required of you with working from home. 

It’s up to you to make sure that they understand. This is where it can get a little tricky because you want to be careful not to let any frustration or stress you feel spill over onto the relationship. 

But you do have to speak up. Doing this is crucial to your ability to work at home as well as keeping the peace with family and friends. It’s always best to set boundaries for family and friends right from the start. 

You can simply give them your schedule and tell them that those are the hours you’re not available for phone calls, drop-ins or anything that’s not an emergency. Maybe you didn’t do that in the beginning, so now you’re having to deal with distractions from people used to you being available. 

The best way to nip this in the bud is to be honest. Tell them that when you get distracted from work, it’s more difficult for you to get back in the flow. Let them know that when you take an unscheduled break from work, it can throw you behind in your projects and you have to end up working late. 

Make it a policy that you don’t answer your phone during working hours from family or friends. But if you do choose to answer, and discover that it’s not something urgent, you can tell the person that you’ll need to call them back later. 

That's it for me today - y'all have a great rest of your day!

Tiff ;)

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