Once you decide to work at home it's time to get organized and keep yourself on track.
This can be difficult for some personality types, especially those who need structure to function.
There are ways you can be successful regardless of your personality type working from home.
Perfectionist While the strive for perfection can often be what makes a career, when you work from home it can also be detrimental to your success if you don't work to find balance.
Perfectionists often have a difficult time closing a project and delivering it as a finished piece.
The reality is if there were no time limits every project could be endless carried on until perfection is reached.
The reality is deadlines need to be met and work needs to progress.
Clients are not looking for perfection to the smallest period, they are looking for well-written and well-executed items.
If you're an independent representative, perfectionism can hold you back from having parties or really getting your name out there.
When you are consumed with the perfect table display, getting all your products in before releasing catalogs and other minute details, you never give yourself the opportunity to succeed.
Tips:

• Strive for fantastic instead of perfect.
  
• Ask for and set up strict deadlines and stick to them.
  
• To aid this along you can put together detailed benchmarks for each project with timelines for each benchmark to ensure you meet the deadline.
  
• Consider asking a trusted source to proof your work or consult with to finish the task at hand.
  

Chaotic Thinkers Though you may feel like you have tons of ideas and are about to explode with success, unless you can get those thoughts under control you will not find success.
Not only does a chaotic thinker slow themselves mentally, but they also draw chaos to their environment, both working and personal.
When you work at home you already have the chaos of your family and their needs, but when you are a chaotic thinking you tend to add unnecessarily to the chaos.
This can show in the form of a messy desk or work area, too many lists and no real direction.
Tips:

• Clear your work space of everything except the specific project you're working on.
  
• File other projects in a clear, clean way for easy locating at a later time.
  
• Keep a tight schedule on a large planner or wall white board to schedule in time for everything.
  
• Keep lists, but keep them specific to what you're working on and allow yourself to cross tasks off as you finish them.
  This will give you a sense of accomplishment and keep you on track.
  

Freethinkers Freethinkers are people who tend to brainstorm and day dream too much.
While, the planning and brainstorming process is essential to any work at home opportunity or venture, there has to come a point when the day dreaming stops and the work begins.
This can not only slow down your progress in your business development, but can also slow down or halt a client project which is absolutely unacceptable.
Tips:

• Put together a list of what you want to accomplish.
  
• Prioritize that list and take the top five tasks or projects and write them on a white board on your office wall.
  
• Push aside other visual reminds of anything that didn't make the cut.
  
• Minimize the personal items in your work space.
  You work at home, do you really need a picture of your kids on your desk.
  
• Allow brain breaks to give yourself freethinking time.
  

Over-Schedulers If your life is already over-scheduled to the max, working at home is going to compound that exponentially.
Someone who tends to over-schedule their personal life is no kinder on their work life.
It doesn't mean you can't work at home, you just have to know what boundaries to set and how to get your family to understand your new schedule.
Tips:

• Schedule both schedules together but in different colors on your calendar.
  This shows what work needs to be done without leaving the family in the dark.
  
• Prioritize your personal and work tasks as not to leave anyone hanging.
  
• Work with clients who are understanding and tell them you work from home.
  You'd be surprised how many don't mind at all.
  
• Consider an unconventional schedule.
  If you have small children, consider working in the evenings.
  

Manic Energy While, high energy is essential for work at home individuals, especially parents, too much energy can cause your brain to shoot into too many different directions and slow or halt your production.
This manic energy isn't too far from the surface when you're juggling work, family, soccer practice, ballet rehearsals and everything else your life demands of you, but it doesn't have to be crippling to your professional life if you put a few tips into place.
Tips:

• Eliminate the chaos.
  See chaotic personalities above for tips on this.
  
• Concentrate on one professional task for day.
  
• Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize
• Ask for help when it all becomes too overwhelming.
  

Regardless of your personality type you can work at home successfully.
If you fall into any of these personality types or feel like more than one of them represents you, work with some of the tips to find your balance between life and work.
There is no perfect balance, but that's why you work from home.
To be in the middle of it all.