How to up-speed your home office work
When you’re starting a small business or working from home as a freelancer, you need to make every minute of time count; it’s a race against the clock to break even before your new endeavor uses up your savings and breaks you.
Tips for Working at Home
Tips for staying focused
| • | Start working at the same time. |
| • | Establish a schedule. |
| • | Limit distractions. |
| • | Plan ahead. |
| • | Take breaks. |
| • | Focus on objectives.
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How to Ruthlessly Reclaim Work Day Time
Life-Story Phone Calls
1. Ask for an email
2. Provide Contextual Cues
3. Last Resorts
Unnecessary Demands
Email and Feeds
Work-at-home, not housework!
When Technology Ruins the Day
- Always have a bootable back-up, somewhere.
- Always have a non-bootable data back-up, somewhere else.
Source: Lifehack.org
6 Tips for Working at Home With Children
Create an office separate from the main living areas of the house and declare it off limits during working hours.
- Invest in some quality headphones for quiet, heads down, work.
- Maintain a good work schedule, and stick to it.
- Train the children to go silent when Dad’s cellphone rings, but make sure your cellphone ringer is turned on.
- Take a long lunch and enjoy your opportunity to work from home.
- Ask your spouse to communicate with you via IM or email.
- Create an office separate from the main living areas of the house and declare it off limits during working hours.
- Invest in some quality headphones for quiet, heads down, work.
- Maintain a good work schedule, and stick to it.
- Train the children to go silent when Dad’s cellphone rings, but make sure your cellphone ringer is turned on.
- Take a long lunch and enjoy your opportunity to work from home.
- Ask your spouse to communicate with you via IM or email.
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