Do You Have a Home Office From Hell?
I recently had the opportunity to review a copy of The Home Office From Hell Cure
First, the signs that you have a Home Office from Hell!
10. “I want to hire an assistant, but we´d have to share a chair.”
9. “My husband thinks I need to get a real job.”
8. “My friends think that working at home means I never miss Days of Our Lives.”
7. “Starbucks is starting to encroach on my profits.”
6. “I realized today at 4 pm that I was still wearing PJs.”
5. “I could die here and no one would ever know.”
4. “Why did God invent Oprah? How are we supposed to work when Oprah is on?”
3. “No, the baby doesn´t go in the playpen. Important papers go in there so the baby can´t get at them.”
2. “I feel like I live at the office . . . wait! I do!”
1. “Since you´re home all day anyway, I need a favor . . . ”
Any of these sound familiar? Then you probably have a home office from hell. Unfortunately . . . I know I do!
The Home Office From Hell Cure is a book that tells you how to “transform your underperforming, time-sucking homebased business into a runaway success.” Sounds good, right?
I read the book this past week and I have to say that there is a LOT of information in it. It covers the two types of entrepreneurs, the Growth Maven (who wants a big booming business) and the Lifestyle Guru (who wants to earn while enjoying life at home) and goes step by step over how to get to where you want no matter what your goals.
There are 128 chapters in this book, but don´t let the numbers scare you, it´s actually a good thing. The chapters are super short, ideal for work at home moms to read in those seconds between diaper changes and waiting for an important phone call. It´s a bit unwieldy to take with you on errands, but you can easily read it all at home.
If you follow all the steps, you´ll be well on the track to becoming an expert (and therefore improving your business) in 100 days. Now, here´s the tricky part. Not all the steps actually apply to everyone.
For example, some of the steps cover speaking engagements. That´s something I would never do. I live in Guatemala and my work is entirely online, so speaking would be pretty much useless for me.
There are also a lot of ideas for getting a virtual office space, which not everyone will need and hiring a VA. This obviously isn´t something that every work at home mom can do, but it takes up several chapters to cover each of these items. Between that and the split sections for the two different types of entrepreneur, there is a lot of the book that simply doesn´t apply to any given reader. While it is quite informative and has some great ideas on improving your business, I have to admit that the wasted sections that I couldn´t use kind of bugged me.
However. That being said, The Home Office From Hell Cure is a very useful book anyway. And, if you get it from Amazon, you get a discount, so it´s totally worth it. 
Let me know what you think of this book in the comments if you´ve read it already.
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Great list! My first at home office was a card table and a dining room chair. It grew from there to taking over a larger desk and corner, then the entire room. Eventually we added on.
Thinking about where you work is important to your creativity and productivity.
Fun post. I’ll have to have a look at that book.