I work from home, and it requires a lot of discipline especially when you have to wake up for the early morning meeting then wake your kids up for school
* You need to dedicate an area to be your office and come and leave it as if you had to commute to work.
* Go out and socialize! Especially for introverts, it's easy for us to neglect some social balance.
* At the end of the day, make sure you switch into activities which will 'switch' you off work and into something else (working out? Hobby? Kids homework?)
Socializing for me is usually lunch with friends, though I do have an officemate so there is some general banter there.
* Door on dedicated space.
* Pants. Or some other work like ritual to convince your brain you are 'going' to work.
Luckily i have my wife yo remind me at times. The pants part sounds interesting... ill try that for a week and see how it goes.
I.e. a way to provide the framework from the discipline in meeting up at work with the freedom from working from home.
Can't wait to share it here soon.