As good as it Gets!

You know when your alarm goes off in the morning and you have no choice but to haul yourself out of bed? Well, you could hit snooze a couple of times, but really you just have to get on with things. Get up, get dressed and make your way to your job and start the day. It's your routine. Every day you have to get there roughly on time because if you don't you'll be fired sooner or later. In return though, you don't need to worry too much about money. Oh sure you'll feel like you don't have enough of it from time to time, we all do.. but in return for being disciplined about your routine and turning up at your job every day you get paid every month, you know how much you'll be paid and you don't need to worry.

Working as a freelancer from home like I'm doing, you don't have that. When my alarm goes off, I COULD stay in bed. If I get bored during the day I can just wander off and no one will care. On the other hand, no one is obliged to pay me and every month there are still bills to pay. Work is still work. It's when you have to do something that if you were really free to choose, you wouldn't do it. You must do it to get paid. That needs discipline and routine.
Imposing discipline and routine on my life is difficult but important. I have a pathological fear of routine and I try to break it every chance I get. I wrongly think routine will depress me, but the truth is that the lack of it is even more dangerous. Discipline I struggle with too. I still have remnants of that dumb teenage attitude 'No one tells me what to do'. Including myself it seems.

I'm getting better at it. Slowly. And although it's a difficult part of one's personality to address, discipline and routine are definitely useful things to be good at.