We have all done it right? Brewed ourselves a nice coffee, cleared a space for our laptop, sat down in our nice comfy chair ready and willing with every intention to make the day a success only to find ourselves getting easily distracted with the luxuries on hand associated with home working.
Productivity can easily waiver when working from home with the distractions of home life a real threat to sabotaging your daily grind despite best intentions.
With no one to tell us off for scrolling through Social media or just catching up on ‘Five’ more minutes of TV how can you ensure you stay motivated to ensure maximum productivity and achieve even more billing time?
A lot of the perils of working from home come down to your own mindset, you may find you suffer no distractions at all and it has been shown that people who work from home often achieve more with their time than those burdened with travel and cramped office space.
However, if you do find yourself struggling at times then check out three ways that I have found useful to keep from me being distracted whilst at home.
Embrace Technology
How easy is it to drift away to the world of Facebook, Twitter or any other form of social media for an hour or so?
Too easy right? That’s why the clever people at Google have developed a Chrome extension called ‘Stay Focused’ which is designed to limit the amount of time you can spend on your favourite websites such as yourmobilecasinos.com when you really should be working.
You set the parameters of allotted time you allow yourself to surf specific sites and once that time has been used up those selected URL’s are inaccessible for the rest of the day taking away one avenue of distraction.
Get out of your PJ’s
You can help yourself more than you think by ensuring you are dressed appropriately for the day’s work even if no one will see you.
You’re working from home so no one expects you to sit at your home desk fully suited and booted. But staying in our PJ’s has a detrimental effort to our psychological state of mind when it comes to work.
The clothes you wear have a bigger reflection on your productivity than you may think. When you put on a garment it has been studied that the wearer ‘adopts the characteristics associated with that garment’.
Meaning if you’re working from home and wearing your PJ’s you more than likely already allowing yourself to be prone to distraction.
Take yourself out for a walk
Exercise is critical to ensuring you remain focused and provides you with fresh air and a break from the sometimes monotonous work load.
Set yourself some time to get out of the house even if it just for half an hour to take a walk and recharge your batteries from a morning of staring at a screen.
Research has shown that people who exercised for 2.5 hours a week in place of working were just as productive and in some cases even more productive than those who do not.
