Think Comfort Studies show that efficiency decreases when we are uncomfortable. Lesson to be learned: don't sacrifice comfort for beauty when selecting your furnishings.

Use Mobile Furniture Reduce grunt work. Few of us enjoy an hour spent shoving and pulling a heavy filing cabinet from one side of room to other. Office furniture with wheels or similar mobility aids will make life much simpler. It's easy to set up, easy to rearrange, easy to move for cleaning or to retrieve lost items.

Remember to take accurate wall measurements before you go shopping for office furniture. Take wallboards, heating ducts and other such items into account.

Some manufacturers are making office furniture with adjustable surfaces so you can work either sitting or standing. Before buying, be sure your home office has adequate space for this feature.

Think Convenience How much fun will it be when you have to crawl under a desk on your belly to attach your new printer to back of computer? Computer makers don't make things easy for us, but with a little pre-planning, you can place your computer so you can actually get at those hookups when you need to.

Check Your Wiring Make sure your home's wiring is adequate to accommodate office machinery and various computer hookups. Ensure you that you can use three- pronged plugs to ground your equipment. Check for electrical hazards -- being especially cautious of hazards to children and pets.

Many are attracted to Internet, and some do very well while others do not. Those that do not may get quickly disenchanted, and write Internet off as just a lot of hype, where you can't earn anything. That's like getting a flat tire in your car, and swearing that automobile has no future.

Anyone going into business on Internet, must do several things if they hope to achieve success. Probably first thing is to recognize and avoid "get rich quick" schemes, that promise great earnings in a short period of time, with little if any effort on your part. People quickly find their email overflowing with all kinds of offers like this. Everything from illegal chain letters, to Nigerian money laundering scam that promises you 25 percent of 35 million dollars, start arriving and unfortunately a lot of people bite.

Believing hype of some affiliate deals, they join a few and quickly find that they don't have to install a bigger mailbox to hold all payments they thought they would get. Many of these programs require that you pay a monthly fee to be involved, and founders are only ones making money. If someone tells you that you don't have to work, forget about it. Like any other business, if you don't put forth any effort, your chances of success are slim to none.

Even if you do all right things, like your car, you may get a flat tire along way. That is not time to quit. You may experience several failures before finding right one.