Even when you are self-employed person, when you think you might escape this type of black and white thinking, it is always difficult to work out how equipment is used proportionally for work and play, which is essentially what the tax man asks us to do in our tax returns I find it difficult to set an arbitrary proportion in cost terms for my work use of my BlackBerry, for example…Obviously it’s something that needs to be recorded, but it always feels like a bit like a school report!

Distractions like housework and your ‘comfy’ bed are often referred to when people talk about remote workers but the biggest distraction is the one that’s there wherever you are….the Internet!!

I think I might have a go at downloading the grease monkey script and trying the cloak approach. Maybe I’ll write a blog post on it.

There’s a good article at WebWorkerDaily about productivity without distractions which has some good suggestions – particularly the ‘Carrot and stick’ approach. Well, the carrot part, anyway. The Greasemonkey script to block time-wasting sites seems a bit extreme, but could be useful if you were really easily distracted, I suppose.

Now I really must get back to that funding bid I’m supposed to be working on…