I woke up,
Got out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head….

Then I thought about going back to bed.

Working virtually really helps you revolve your work around your lifestyle. If you are a drinker then you can go out late, have a few drinks and sleep in late. If you are trying to improve your health then you can wake up, go for a run and be ready to work by 10am. All is possible.

But what if you are an extrovert? What if you thrive on people being around you and while you may resent most of the people around you, the comradery gives you energy - so you tolerate the peons around you.

I think I am the worst of all types. I am a borderline introvert/extrovert working in a virtual office. What this means is that I wake up in the morning and I need people around me to get me charged up but once I get this energy, I need them to get the hell away from me and leave me alone. I have tried to subsidize the lack of human interaction by waking up each morning and doing a quick run and then following it up with a quick trip to the gym mid-day. This, by the way, doesn’t work - I have more energy than I did before but it’s very unfocused energy and I end up thinking about my own life and where I have gone wrong and what I should be doing than focusing on creative search marketing tactics.

The energy lasts and by about the time I get home from the gym (at 3pm), I am settling into a very focused work stretch. But then my introvert starts kicking in and I am working hard until about 3am in the morning.

Ugh. I can’t figure it out.