The quality required in order to work from home is self-discipline. Paradoxical as it may seem, at first it is very hard to be disciplined by yourself, especially if you come from the classic environment where you were given orders and where others used to think for you, and you only needed to perform the task. It is hard to be disciplined when you move into the new environment of online jobs, if the first thing your brain sees is that you gained freedom and it tries to seek to satisfy the needs (which are normal in most cases) that it could not meet at the classic job. On the other hand, you have to be disciplined and dose the time right so as to combine business with pleasure. Too much business and you feel that you have gained nothing; too much pleasure will take you off the right road.
Another important and necessary quality when you work from home is planning. Now you have a unique opportunity to have enough time for everything. The time gain offered by the new change is often large enough to allow you to handle everything you want without any worry. The difference is that now you are handling all your time, not only the time between meals, holidays or the free time you win if you finish a task earlier.
Planning is not limited only to time, but it also extends to your actions. It is obvious that you will not do anything unless you know what to do or how to do it. If you succeed in planning properly all the things to be done, down to the smallest details, then you will do a good job yourself. Because there is no boss to give you orders in online jobs. Now you must think and give orders to yourself, orders that you will definitely execute.
Another thing that is extremely important to freelancers is competence. It makes no sense to give up a job and to become a freelancer and earn only half of your previous wages, if you cannot pay your bills with that kind of money. There is also no guarantee that you will earn enough every month, because the competition never sleeps and the idea of becoming a freelancer implies giving up on a stable income (which scares a lot of people). You took a risk in giving up something stable; in order to earn more, you take appropriate risks, fact which brings us back to discipline and planning.
Probably the biggest advantage when you work from home and divide your time in an optimal way is that you can discover yourself. You can develop and grow up in areas where no classical job can give you any chance. You can gain more confidence in your forces, because you can handle yourself. In your free time, you can think about things that really matter. Who knows, maybe you will even have a stronger personality.
Look for specialized platforms of online jobs in order to find the one that better suits you. After you begin to work from home you will never want to return to your previous working manner.