My biggest pitfall since starting to work from home has been this: not falling a regular schedule. It’s important to have flexibility – and is certainly a big draw to working from home – but I found it’s crucial (for me, anyway) to set a schedule and stick to it. Instead of sleeping ’til whenever, then checking e-mail and getting to work, working during different hours each day, I found I function so much better giving myself a regular routine.
Even if I’m doing the same amount of work, following some sort of structure has really helped me to stay focused and be monumentally more productive.