Paddy Tan
2 min readMar 24, 2020

The note that I sent to my colleagues:

Few things that will happen when you are working at home or working remotely:

You are tempted. Tempted to do anything except work. Your bed will be calling you, your YouTube will auto switch on, your messages will keep popping out asking what are you doing and you watch another 999th video on the cats running around. The cats do more work than you.

You can't think clearly because you are too much junk food. The salt is diluted into your bloodstream and the sugar is making you high

No one is seated next to you, you don't have to sit up straight, you can laze around, you can go to the toilet as many times and stays there. No one will judge you

Potato chips become your main source of nutrients.

Everything looks bore to you and it eats into your soul and you have forgotten why you are working from home. Your brain cells start deteriorating as you lost that motivation to push you forward.

That 2 hours or so of traveling should buy you time to read more. Prepare more. And not sleep more and eat more. Use that opportunity to finish the run faster, build a stronger foundation to your career, gain more knowledge, and not waste it because others are doing the same.

That's how you reach the goals that you want in life.

Oh, don’t bother with those freebies that these commercial companies are throwing at you. You are the biggest captive target seated glue in front of the monitor. Instead pay for those courses that will benefit you now, later and in the future.

Paddy Tan
Paddy Tan

Written by Paddy Tan

I help Startups grow and scale in Southeast Asia. Within 100 days. Growth Strategist | Investor in Startups and SMEs | Scale Startups & Train Founders.

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