There are basically two types opinions from people who are not familiar with working from home. The first is that it must be the greatest thing to be able to lounge around all day (see: Work at Home Myths); the second is the “Oh, I could never do that” opinion.

I tend to respect the “I could never do that” opinion moreso than the other because it’s true. Working at home isn’t from everyone.

Here are some clues that you might want to consider an office job.

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Everyone wants the benefits of a blog but few people want to put in the effort to maintain it. I fully understand because if you don’t really love it, blogging begins to seem like just another old task on the to-do list.

Besides, coming up with idea after idea can get tedious after awhile. That’s why I always try to stay ahead of my blogs. By that I mean that I try to have a few blog posts post-dated so that I don’t feel as much pressure to constantly update.

Here’s how it works.

I start a blog on a normal schedule, which means I write and post on the fly. Then after awhile I’ll take a day to write 4 posts for a particular blog but I’ll date them for the next week. That puts me a week ahead and I make sure it stays that way.

Note: This blog is now on a post ahead schedule. I am writing this five days before you’ll actually read it.

If something newsworthy and time sensitive comes up then I’ll post on the fly, but otherwise I try to maintain a “post ahead” schedule for each of my blogs.

Life gets in the way of blogging, work gets in the way of blogging, motivation gets in the way of blogging, but when you put yourself on a “post ahead” schedule it becomes less of a concern; especially when you get to the point of writing 5 or 6 blogs.

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I’m blessed in that it doesn’t take me that long to come up with blog ideas, and once I have an idea, I can whip out a post in a decent amount of time.

When I’m ready to blog I login to Wordpress, type it up, read it over, and I’m done. I’ve never felt the need to “pre-type” my posts into Microsoft Word or any other program.

I don’t like to be left in the dark so I decided to try out a blog writer to see if it helped at all with my productivity. So here I am typing to you from BlogDesk and I must tell you, this program sure is making my life easier.

Now when I have an idea I can quickly load up the program and start typing. No waiting for an internet connection, logging onto the admin panel of the blog I want to write, trying to remember by password, and all those other things.

BlogDesk allows me to blog and go which is important since I have several blogs to maintain.

• Setup is a breeze.
• Adding pictures is extremely easy, there’s even a pic editor within the program.
• Cost is amazingly free.
• Managing multiple blogs is now a snap

I’m sure there are more savvy programs but for now BlogDesk works for me.

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