Most companies are required employees to work from home to practice social
distancing. At first it seems convenient and if you are not ready for this for a
long haul it can be very overwhelming and can wear you out.
Hello I'm Nikhil, in today's video I want to share five tips or best practices
which helped me to stay as productive at home as I would be at home so this is my
second week at home working from home so there were a lot of ideas floating
around in the internet and the organization also shared few tips and
tricks to adopt while working from home I understand that every situation every
home is different so what worked well for me may not work for you so these are
just tips that worked well for me and you can listen to it and see if some of
these can be useful for you or adopt and change to work in your situation so
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let's jump into the video so the tip number one is have a morning routine and
get ready to go to work
what I meant by that is wake up at the exact same time every single day that
helps you mentally prepare for get ready to work even though you're not going or
commuting to work having that routine will help you to mentally prepare and
get ready for work so if you have a 8 o'clock in the morning call just getting
up at 7:45 and going directly to the work desk wouldn't help rather if you
try to wake up at 6:00 and get ready do some meditation drink coffee eat
breakfast if you are into and then start your work because that will mentally
make you prepare that you are starting your day so that's your mental check to
say that yep I'm ready for work and I'm focused so once you start your work at
8:00 there is nothing stopping after that you have done all your morning
routine so you can just focus on work until the next break along with that
point just to make you mentally prepared for the work what I found useful is if I
change my dress and not sit on my PJs it helps me tremendously to focus and be
sharp when performing work all right point number two
set up a dedicated workspace setting up a dedicated workspace it doesn't mean
that you need to have a fancy office like this you can just have a simple
table and be at that spot every single time because if you're moving around a
lot then your mind wouldn't be able to focus on the task at hand
rather you'd be trying to accommodate or adapt to that new place so I would
prefer don't do this working from home means you can work from here too so
don't be that guy just make sure that you're you have a dedicated space even
if it's a single plane table with your laptop that's fine something that I
wanted to share that work well for me is I set up a extra monitor so that you
know if I'm on conference call that I just need to see and listen in and not
focus completely I can have the second monitor to do some multitasking of
course work-related also having a dedicated desk helped mentally prepared
to start and stop the work at the same time that means when you come and sit on
the desk at 8:00 in the morning after your morning routine then you are
physically and mentally prepared to start the work focused and get it done
and also by the end of the day when you walk away from that desk you are
mentally shutting down and preparing yourself that yep I'm done with the work
now it's end of day point number three
do not take the laptop everywhere you go I mean this point kind of compliments
the point number two to have a dedicated space because if you carry or take your
laptop everywhere you go first of all you wouldn't be as productive as sitting
at a desk focused on the work moreover you would be trying to get distracted
easily because there are other elements whether it be your spouse kids dog
whatever I make sure that you have a dedicated space and when you sit on
there the other parties around the home they know that you're working but if you
take your laptop and sit on a couch or dining table they wouldn't understand if
you're working or just reading something so make sure that you have a dedicated
space and keep your laptop on that table on that space and do not take it
wherever you go because for example if you take your laptop when you're going
to eat lunch then you'll neither focused on the lunch as well as on the work so
it's better take the break have lunch for half an hour and then come back to
the dedicated space that's what I would do and that worked well for me
point number four
so this is something similar to the dedicated workspace on point number four
I want to emphasize that if you could just simulate whatever you had at your
workplace because we are all spoiled by the two monitors giant monitors and an
extra laptop so we have typically more than one screen when we are working at
in our workspace having a multiple monitor always helps and it always gives
you that ease of use when working at home because you feel like you're not
challenged or crippled by not having that extra monitor and things that you
had at work so always if possible set up additional monitor if not two monitors
at least one would definitely help that has helped me a lot to focus when having
that extra monitor the other point that I want to emphasize is have a pen and
paper ready because when you're at work will have a notepad to write things down
when you are attending meeting or you know when you are listening to something
right so have a pen and paper on your desk so that way you are ready to take
your notes and things like that alright point number five
this is the most important point because this helps you to stay focused and
balanced and have that right mix of balance between work and family because
when you are working from home one of the most difficult and challenging thing
is to cut the work from family time so here I want to emphasize that have a end
of day routine similar to how we discussed about having a morning routine
have an end of day routine that will help you to mentally prepare to shut
things down if you are at work at 5:00 or 5:30 normally you close down
everything and head to home so you need to get that similar mental check out
when you are at home too so all of these points will help you to do that end of
day routine if you have a dedicated workspace if you have a dedicated room
you can just walk away and that's your routine to end your day and mentally say
that you're done for the day anything else we'll look at tomorrow so that's
all the tips that I have for today and I hope you guys enjoyed it and gained some
value out of this if you are already practicing some of these tips I would
love to hear more about it what worked well and what additional tips and tricks
helped you to stay focused and have the right balance between work and family
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productive and moreover find that right balance between work and family so I
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