By As most people are now stuck at home, I thought it would be useful to share 4 simple tips to help you be more productive with your time.
Set up a designated workspace
Find a place in your home where you can work undisturbed and let everyone know that this is your workspace.
When you are there, you are at work, when you move away from that location, you are at home. This will help keep the boundaries between work and home clear.
Keep to your routine
To avoid falling into bad habits such as staying up late (and then getting up late) get up at the same time as you would for work, get dressed as you would for work, and start work at the time you would normally start.
Be in your designated work area for the full day, of course taking breaks and lunch as you would normally do if you were at work. Time you would normally spend commuting could be used to do some personal development or some property training to get up to speed on the latest strategies.
Have planned social interaction
You can feel very isolated when working from home on your own, so it is really important to make sure you keep connected to your friends and work colleagues. However, this should be planned and scheduled to make sure you do not get interrupted when focusing on work.
One thing I do is arrange to have a Skype coffee whereby you agree to have a Skype call with someone at a set time, but make a drink just before so you can turn your camera on and have a drink at the same time.
Make sure you limit the time of these calls.
Focussed sessions
One of my coaches taught me to do this and it has helped me to achieve far more every day than I would normally. Basically, you schedule in blocks of time into your diary (ideally 55 minutes) where you block out all distractions and focus on the most important task for a set amount of time.
Turn off your email alerts, put your mobile phone on airplane mode and just focus. It’s amazing what you can achieve.
I do hope these simple tips help you when you are working from home.
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