Are you new to working from home?
Well by the end of this video I'm going to give you my best working from home tips so
that you can get organized, remain focused, and stay productive.
And if you stay tuned to the end of this video, I'm going to tell you how to get your hands
on my master productivity checklist that's going to allow you to be productive in, and
out of the office. And another really fun bonus is, I'm going to give you a tour of my home office.
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Working from home can be great, but it can also be problematic if it is not managed well.
In this video I'm going to give you my five top tips, so you can maximize your day.
So if you're excited about this, give this video a like, and let's get to it.
Make a permanent workplace for yourself.
This is going to be really important. You need somewhere to go.
So see if you can carve out some space for yourself.
If you are fortunate enough to have a spare room, use that. All right?
You know, put yourself a little desk in the corner.
If you don't have a spare room, see if you can carve up some space in the not so common areas.
So if you have a dining room that's really not used, what a great place to put a little
desk in the corner, or even maybe take half the table if this is a temporary thing, depending
on what's going on. But it really is important.
It is somewhere away from the traffic, somewhere away from distractions, and a place that you can
call your own, and you actually can leave your stuff, because you want to be able to go to
work, and you want to be able to leave work and you don't want it trailing around you,
So having your own special spot where you can ideally close a doo,r or at least walk
away from the room, is going to be extremely helpful,
ensuring that you are extremely productive, and maximizing your time.
Invest in technology. All right,
If you're going to be working from home, it really is important that you have everything
you need critically at your fingertips.
Ah, the last thing you want to do is be disrupting your day because you have to go elsewhere
in order to get your things, or you're on hold.
So that being said, I think the first and foremost that you'll probably be learning
very quickly is, how important your home internet speed is.
So I'm very lucky. I've two boys who are gamers, so we actually have really good internet, not because of
my choice, it's because of their pushing mom, mom, we need it.
But that being said, really take a look at your internet, make sure you have excellent
internet speed because that's gonna make a huge difference when it comes
to virtual meetings, and your participation in those virtual meetings, which is the second
type of software you need. Do you have really good virtual meeting software?
There's tons of stuff out there like zoom, and Microsoft teams, and things of that nature.
That is going to be really helpful. Make sure you have really good printers.
Ensure you have your shredders, whatever it is that's going to make your working at home
like it is when you're working in the office, cause you having everything at your fingertips is really critical.
It's a proper, it's actually really good wise investment, because you're not going to be
scrambling around, trying to figure things out, because you don't have the right tools
Organize your day. And so what I mean by this is organize the hours within your day.
Really have a clear set of your start, and end time for your day.
So the reason being that is so important is, it's really easy to allow for our day to extend
into the evening, and you really want to make sure that your personal time is not impacted
by working from home. In fact, I know some people who have told me as of late, that they had been working from
home, they've noticed it was really easy to have a 10 to 12 hour workday because again, interestingly
enough, no distractions, right? Amazing how much we can get done.
But there is a flip side to that, and that means it's encroaching on our personal time.
And sometimes resentment can pop up. So that being said, be very clear.
Is it nine to five? Is it eight to four?
However that may be, I promise you, when you work from home, you're actually more productive.
You're going to get a lot more done and ensure you take some breaks, because you don't want
to be sitting in front of your desk.
Ergonomics is just as important as it is in the work office, as it is in the home office,
because you're going to start getting things like sore shoulders, backs, all of that fun
stuff, which can impede on the work that you do, particularly for those of us in front
of computers all the time. So really ensure that you organize your day
from an hourly perspective, and try to be diligent on sticking to it.
Minimize distractions. Oh, okay.
So depending on your environment at your home, you may have a lot of distractions, or you
may have a little bit of distractions, but I can tell you for sure, one of the distractions
that every single person has is social media.
If we're connected to the internet, it's going to be really easy to slide into that stuff.
So if you can, try not to check out your social media, try to make sure that those distractions
are set aside for outside of business hours.
Plus you're going to be more productive anyway, so you should be able to have more time in
the evening to do all that stuff.
Another set of distractions that some of us may be having is our kids or family life, even
our lovely pets, they come knocking on the door, demanding to go for a walk.
Believe you me, my little Yoko girl does that to me all the time.
There's nothing wrong. Maybe set that aside with break time, where you can interact with that, but if
you can, and you have the ability, close thedoor, if someone can watch the kids while
you're working, that makes a big deal and if that can't happen then see if you can provide
distractions for them as well. It is called life, and particularly when you are forced to work from home,
then you have to balance all of that. You know there is that balancing act, and it is acceptable,
but if you don't have those distractions, then make sure that you don't cause your own distractions.
All right, so just really be smart about it, and try to minimize as much as you can, and again, really
be structured and routine. Pretend like you are physically going to your work office building.
Okay, what I mean by that is no, don't get in the car and drive, and then come back into your home.
Although you know what you could do that.
What I mean by that is, if your routine prior to working from home was literally getting
up at a certain time, perhaps working out, having your breakfast, getting everything
ready to rock and roll, still keep those hours, still keep that routine.
Those routines help us really get structured, and it's discipline that really distinguishes
those who do really well working from home, and those that don't.
So if you have a routine, stick with routine, pretend as if you are going to work and if
psychologically you need that, to hop in the car, drive around the block and then come back,
then by all means do it. There's nothing wrong with that, but just ensure that you know, like get dressed, get
out of your PJ's, because you are going to work, and you're probably are going to be on video calls,
and with all those video calls, hey, you want at least look somewhat presentable.
Although a lot of times I actually don't wear makeup. I'm actually really enjoying that.
Anyway, I'm digressing. Okay, so for sure, act as if you're going to work.
Okay. Now that you know how to work effectively from home, I promise you if you stay to the
end of this video, I'm going to share with you my master productivity hack checklist
so you can grab it from the link below.
And I also said, I'm going to give you a little bit of a tour of my home office.
Can't wait, so let's get to that too.
Okay, here's my home office and this is where, I guess you could say, all the magic happens
when I'm doing all my productivity work. So yeah, this is where I'm hanging
out as of late. I hope you like it.
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