- When you work from home, you get
a lot of freedom and flexibility.
But as I've discovered over my past year
of working remote, you do need some form
of a routine to stay productive
and stay focused and get the work done.
And when you don't work in an office
and have a set 9:00 to 5:00 schedule
already laid out for you, you've kind
of got to make up your own routine.
So in this video, I want to take you
through my routine before working
from home and show you how I structure my day.
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Alright, let's get into the video
and let me show you my day.
On most weekdays, my alarm goes off at 6:00 a.m.
And I'm trying to do this thing lately
where I don't take my phone off Airplane Mode
until I'm up and out of bed just
to avoid that half hour of aimlessly scrolling social media.
In the morning I tend to grab my laptop
and sit on the sofa to work for a little while.
I do have a standing desk, but honestly I just don't
feel like standing or really sitting upright
when I first get up in the morning.
I start my day by checking Slack and Basecamp
to see what my team was up to overnight
because they work later in the day than me
being based in America.
And I add anything that may have come up
to my to-do list to tackle later on that day.
I like to start my day by working on a side project though.
So to get into it, I set a Pomodoro timer
on my Apple Watch and get started
with editing, writing podcast or notes,
whatever it is I need to do that day.
I tend to work on the sofa until
about 8:00 or 8:30 or whenever my battery runs
low, whichever comes first.
Then I move over to my desk, make myself
some breakfast and start on my workday.
I like to head to the gym about 10:00 or 11:00 o'clock
'cause I find that it's a pretty quiet time
of day to go, so there's not too many people there.
After the gym, I shower and change
and get back to working on whatever my tasks are that day.
I like to split things up so that I can try
and complete a thing in these time blocks,
so I'll work on a smaller thing
in the morning before the gym,
and then a larger thing after it.
The afternoon is where I find
that my concentration starts to fade.
And so to combat that and do something
about it, I leave the house, I put myself
into a new working situation and it sort
of refreshes my mind and gives me some new focus.
If I've got an event on or just somewhere
to be in Central London in the evening,
I'll usually go in and work from a cafe there,
but otherwise I'll just spend my afternoon working
in a cafe that's a little closer to home.
I don't know what it is about cafes specifically
that really helps me focus, but they definitely
do help me beat the afternoon slump.
I usually hit home about mid-afternoon
to join any video calls that I have
that day with my team being based in the US,
their morning aligns with my afternoon,
so that works out perfectly
for me having afternoon meetings.
I usually finish up my work day about 6:00 or 7:00 p.m.
I always like to end my workday
by writing in my bullet journal
the tasks that I need to do the following day.
I feel like it helps me stay on track
and keep on top of what needs to be done.
So that is my routine for working from home.
I know it might seem like the hours
that I'm working are kind of lengthy,
but that's because I take a lot
of breaks in the middle of the day
to go to the gym, to have lunch,
maybe to film a video.
I love that working from home gives me
the flexibility to arrange my schedule
in that way because I find that I work better
when I work in smaller chunks rather
than sitting there trying to focus
for eight hours straight.
That's just not gonna work for me.
If you work from home as well, I would love
to hear a little about your routine down
below in the comments.
Does it look like mine, do you stick
to a regular 9:00 to 5:00 or do you take advantage
of the fact that you can wake up
at 10:00 a.m. if you want to?
Tell me about it down below.
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Bye.