When some people think of working from home, they think of fun! They imagine days full of online shopping, meeting friends for lunch, napping all day, and playing with their new puppy. 

Then there are those who think that working from home is a jail cell. They think of dark days, locked in a room with a ball and chain following them everywhere they go, with the inability to ever escape the warden.

I’ve worked 100% from home for over a decade, and I can tell you that it’s somewhere in between. There’s great freedom in being able to work from home—it gives you a ton of flexibility—but it can also be hard to escape work. If you like what you do, or if you don’t have set hours, you can find yourself working much longer days than you would in an office setting.

For those of you who may be starting a business where you’ll be working from home, I want to give you the skinny so you know what to expect. Here are some of the good things and some...