4 Tips For Whilst Working From Home
Digital
Marketing Agency Liverpool reality
is often the opposite. At home, we feel safe and we feel relaxed. Those of us
lucky enough to have safe homes, often find it’s actually more difficult to
practise the same self-discipline that we do in our working environments.
This is certainly the case if our work and ‘relaxing’ spaces are combined, not separate.
So, for everyone who is fortunate to be able to work from home, we wanted to put together 4 tips for staying productive while you work at home. (And in doing this, we are acknowledging how fortunate we are, and the plight that so many other people are finding themselves in).
Give Yourself Deadlines
All too often, when your laptop is permanently on, or your monitor is ‘just over there’ and always visible, it’s easy to get sucked into the mindset that you can work whenever you like.
Deadlines become meaningless and arbitrary because you don’t have to leave the ‘office’, there’s no set time by which your jobs have to be completed because you can access them whenever. If a client sends something in late, it’s there. When you wake up, it’s there. Work. The ability to work.
This is hugely detrimental not only to our mental health, but our productivity. If we consider our work as not limited or restricted by timed deadlines, personal or professional, then the urgency to complete work dwindles. We find ourselves in a miasma of procrastination and dwindling motivation.
So, to avoid this, set yourself deadlines.
Put a timer on your phone for 1 hour of uninterrupted work. Or make it 20 minutes, whatever works best for your personal attention span. Dedicate yourself to really fulfilling this deadline. Don’t look at your phone for the duration of this time (unless your boss or a client needs you).
For those of you doubting your ability to be strict with yourself, there are so many apps and tools out there to help with productivity. Try:
Forest
Hours
Freedom
These apps help you stay focused (you can even plant a tree with Forest!) and remove distractions from your workspace and social media so you can focus on being productive…
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Figure Out Your Working Schedule
Digital
Marketing Agency Manchester all got different periods during the day where
we are more productive. In the office, we’re restricted to the expected working
hours.
However, when you work from home you suddenly have the freedom to choose which working hours suit your personal preferences the best (within reason of course).
Our motivation ebbs and flows during the day, it’s natural. Because of this it’s even more important to know when your high and low periods of motivation are, and work with them, not against them.
Trying to push through harder tasks on your list when your headspace isn’t quite right will negatively impact your productivity, but also your mental health.
It becomes easy to associate a feeling of low motivation for our work schedule if we try to consistently sprint through the day without listening to our natural patterns of productivity.
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