Not so long ago I was still working a full time corporate job. Working from home is a life-changing experience and I love it. I could probably come up with 20 reasons to work from home, and I have summarized my 5 main reasons in this post.

1) Spend time with your kids.  This is the number one reason people give for working from home. I was with my 2 year old only one hour a day and now I take him to morning day care, have lunch with him, play with him, this is just priceless.

2) Create wealth for yourself.  Working for someone else can be very frustrating when you have the feeling that you are creating wealth for your boss and not for yourself. The point is your boss is not here to make you rich, but to ensure that you get your pay-check. Working for yourself is much more rewarding because you can create unlimited wealth for you and your family.

3) No Commute. The average working person wastes almost 10% of their week getting to and from work, and most of the time in stressful traffic jams. I was spending 1.5 hours on the road every day and now I just have to commute to my son’s day care (5 minutes walking) and back to my home office.

4) Choose your own hours.  Working a 9-5 job can be very frustrating when you have nothing more to do at 3pm or quite stressful when it’s 5 and you still have tons of work. You lose time or you have to work 200% to do it all before 5pm. It’s the dictatorship of the clock. Working from home, I can now have my own schedule, adapt it to my family needs, and I don’t have to ask permission to take half a day off when I need or want to.

5) No longer waste time or emotional resources coping with a boss or frustrated colleagues. I can now focus all my energy on working on my business in a productive way, and I think I must be 2 or 3 times more efficient and less tired at the end of the day.