ever since march 2020 when the pandemic hit our friends and family keep telling us how difficult
it's been to work remotely lucky for us i'd already been working from working remotely for 15
years and we have 12 tried and tested tips to share with you to make life a little easier
hey guys it's amber and jared here from holy city family our goal is to empower you to
achieve financial independence and provide the best education to your children so that
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above their own before following any advice we may offer so let's go through some remote work
stats that we found according to pew research center prior to the virus outbreak in 2019 20
percent of people worked remotely compared to the current level 71 of people are working remotely
according to gardner 80 of company leaders plan to allow employees to work remotely at
least part of the time after the pandemic our home office might look a little different to some yeah
the treadmill was a game changer for us um just as a side note studies have shown you'll see on one
side of the screen that this this style of desk can improve your mood it can increase creativity
it can increase productivity reduce stress promote healthy body weight reduce the risk and helps
manage type 2 diabetes lowers blood pressure and then also helps maintain strong bones and for us
we purchased ours from lifespan fitness and make sure that you stay tuned because we're going to
share more info on our search for that perfect treadmill desk yeah it took us a while and it
wasn't the first treadmill that or the treadmill that we bought we had to go through some trial and
error to get there maybe some melting plastic so let's talk about our standing desk we know that
not everybody's ready for a treadmill desk and this is the standing desk is a great step towards
that and it's a great upgrade from sitting all day at your desk so take a look at some of these
statistics for the benefits of a standing desk it lowers your risk of heart disease by 50 percent
lowers blood sugar levels by half prevents obesity and weight gain reduces back pain
improves mood and memory increases productivity and increases life expectancy by almost 50 percent
this is crazy i we couldn't believe these stats when we read this so next let's talk about the
monitors and the mounts that we have in the office what's great about these is that we have what's
called a kvm switch that allows us to switch between two different computers with a click
of a button and last is the video editing beast of a computer that we bought um i i personally spent
a lot of time researching video editing computers and what would be the best bang for your buck we
had this particular desktop built by nxt to start out our helpful tips for you guys the first one
take break studies have shown that you should only work for a 75 to 90 minute stretch and then take
a 15 minute break and after 90 minutes our brains actually start to tire and lose concentration and
we can lose our focus and our productivity the second one don't try to multitask so if you find
yourself actually struggling with that we we want you to maybe try out these things limit the number
of things to just one task at one time and then use that 20 minute rule devote 20 minutes to that
one task before switching to something else and then limit distractions we've done this turning
off our notifications and only checking that email and those notifications every two hours and then
practice mindfulness and the third one that we have here protect your time and your workspace for
us we use the google calendar and jared was able to share when he had meetings and kind of just
give me an insight into that so that i knew with the kids hey you should be quieter get out of the
house or that kind of thing so we were on the same page there all right so our next tip is making
sure that your workspace is ergonomically correct we have our screens positioned so that our eyes
look at the center of the screen also our standing desk is positioned where our arms are 90 degrees
when working on the keyboard or writing and that's also really important buy a pair of blue light
filtering glasses to protect your eyes and we've both done that and it's made a big difference also
make sure to block out your schedule know when you're most productive during the day and protect
that time don't allow yourself to be this is easier said than done but don't allow yourself if
you can to be slammed with back-to-back meetings so that you can't get any actual work done and
you're just going from one thing to the next create a morning and daily routine so that you can
manage your time and so that things don't get away from you and you just end up being reactive to
everything that's going on the next tip we have is to get out of the house during the day take a walk
for your break eat lunch outside but you need this vitamin d you don't think that you do but you do
you can see an instant happiness kind of wash over you after you just go outside for a little bit
second one that we have here is over communicate and make sure that you're hurt on your meetings
even if it's just as little as hey everyone i hope you're having a great day or at the end when you
say bye i look forward to following up with you guys so just make sure that you're heard on
those and next one when you have the opportunity join meetings via video that's a big thing now
with after the virus and the pandemic the video allows you to really connect with your co-workers
or your employer or your clients so next is take advantage of the perks utilize the flexibility of
your schedule and don't waste it coordinate your schedule as much as possible to create usable
pockets of time next is invest in a good pair of noise canceling headphones this is something that
that i started using i think it was about a year ago next is designating a specific workspace
this one's really important yeah this one's critical if you have the ability to have a door
this would be the best option in our last house we actually didn't have a designated office we had a
master bedroom in our apartment that was temporary and i had to set up my office in there which was
uh which we ended up making it work better than than i expected but before i retired and i was
working from home i would always hear others say that they couldn't work from home because
their biggest problem was they were having trouble staying motivated and they just
said that they would never be able to get work done they would just slack off all day
right so if you find this to be a problem try out some of these tips that we've used and
we want to share with you create a daily to do checklist daily and weekly evaluation grid
based on your those to-do items and your routine to make sure you're on track and then we thought
about this like set up a quarterly evaluation with your spouse your partner or even family members
where they can evaluate you on your progress and look at personal aspects of your life too so it's
not just work they're looking at the whole use another tool to evaluate evaluate ourselves and
our time that stephen covey developed we'll link this information for this tool in the description
below but we're going to be sharing about those four quadrants of time management and how that
tool can be used to help increase productivity and motivation in a later video okay so we've given
you our 12 tips that we found helpful working remotely but now it's your turn to share with us
do you guys have any tips that we didn't mention that make working remotely a little smoother in
your life that you could share if you do please put those in the comments below and help our
community learn and grow together yeah so that we can all work remotely through the pandemic and it
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