The Great Indoors – 3 life-enhancing home-based activities

Some say that staying in is the new going out, but there are more substantive advantages to spending more of your time in a domestic haven – and tech progress has opened up fabulously fulfilling new worlds for homebodies.

When you’re no longer committed to a daily commute and being cramped in a corporate cubicle farm, there’s a lot more freedom to flexibly fit work around family commitments and care for your health.

With that in mind, let’s look at three life-enhancing home-based activities.

1. Freelance from home

When you work in a highly regimented top-down type organisation where people are set in their ways and protective of their positions, it can be tough getting the space and authorization to do things a little differently.

Whereas with freelancing, if you’re a skilled technician, you can use your highly honed skillset to dispense with the middleman and earn more cash while having the creative freedom to work with clients who inspire you.

However, working in your domestic environment requires discipline to stay productive and healthy – read these Forbes motivation tips for freelancers who work from home to keep yourself balanced.

2. Blog from home

If you’ve got the writing chops, then publishing a regular blog can be deeply satisfying in so many different ways – you can use it to share your passion for a particular musical genre or sports pastime, to wax lyrical about your business niche or even to review, compare and rate new products and services for certain user groups.

Blogging is a great way of reaching an audience directly and you can do it purely for fun or take the time to monetize your mission.

But either way, there are a few best practices to follow – browse this HubSpot blogging guide for some savvy advice.

3. Study from home

Topping up your education from home is another terrific idea – studying for an online qualification like a certificate or degree can help boost your CV to apply for a promotion or move into a different business sector entirely.

And when you study with an institution like Anglia Ruskin Distance Learning, you can choose from a range of diverse courses that includes everything from digital marketing to football coaching.

Plus, the great thing about online courses is that you can complete them when it suits you because there’s no need to attend a physical campus every day.

These three life-enhancing activities are mere morsels of the feast of fulfilment that awaits when you shut the door to the outside world and choose to spend the best parts of your day doing the things you love most.

Nevertheless, hopefully they’re tasty enough to convince you to grab every opportunities the Great Indoors offers.

So ends our list – but please share your own tips on working and studying at home in the comments section. We can’t wait to hear what you think!