As appealing as freelancing and working from home is, reality soon sets in for many. The first time you decide to work from home feels a bit like when you move out of your parent’s home for the first time.

There’s an enormous liberating feeling, like you can achieve anything on your own. However, as time goes on, life teaches you some tough lessons. Firstly, working from home can be a lonely world compared to a buzzing office environment.

As well as making it through on your own, you have to find the will power and mental strength to reach your own deadlines. The lack of accountability working from home can put many a freelancing career to and end, if you don’t get your head in the game.

Luckily, there are ways you can make working from home much easier, like knowing how to gather the right tools for work. Working on your mind set too, will be a game changer. If you know how to motivate yourself, then you’ll work far more productively.

That’s why My Kind of Monday produced this infographic on how to survive working from home. They don’t want to see you simply surviving, they want you to be thriving instead.