The Challenges of Working From Home

[Sue Henry]

There are so many distractions of working from home, and these occasionally become an excuse for me to procrastinate!

In fact today I was preparing for a talk that I am giving next week and became completely distracted by the activities of the bush turkey digging up the garden looking for food outside my office window. I started to think about the mess I would have to go out and clear up and the next thing you know I spotted a water dragon lazing by the vegetable patch, a kookaburra sitting on the clothes line and a magpie swooping down to get a worm! While the wonders of nature were being played out before me so was time passing quickly and before I knew it an hour had passed by!

While it is a challenge not to be distracted by these activities I didn't mind the extra hour I had to work today, after reflecting on the missed hour I am grateful that one of the challenges of being distracted brought with it a gift I would never have had working in the city!