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4 Tips To Help You Maintain Focus While Working From Home

4 Tips To Help You Maintain Focus While Working From Home
By | On October 11,21 | 0 Comment

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Whether you work from home or in an office, your workspace can be your oasis of productivity. Many people struggle to maintain focus at work. Still, it becomes even more difficult when you’re working at home and distracted by family members and other day-to-day elements in the household.

Here Are Four Tips To Maintaining Focus

Keep a Schedule

Plan your day so that you know what you need to do when. For example, if you tend to lose track of time watching Netflix, set an alarm for every one hour so that you don’t go overboard with streaming shows because not only will it affect your sleep schedule but also your ability to accomplish tasks during the daytime hours.

If you tend to get sidetracked easily by social media, try blocking the sites one at a time during designated times throughout your workday. Blocking certain websites will help you stay focused on more important tasks instead of wasting time scrolling through pointless posts.

In addition to planning your day, it’s important to have a workspace that sets the tone of productivity. For example, having a messy desk with papers and other miscellaneous items strewn across it doesn’t exactly scream, “I’m going to get my job done today.” 

On the contrary, creating an organized area with proper Home Working Furniture where everything has its place shows that you’re serious about being productive and results in fewer distractions so you can accomplish more at home.

Dress for Success

You’ve probably seen it before: the picture of the guy working at home with his feet up on the coffee table, eating bacon and eggs while wearing pajamas. The message that it sends is that you’re comfortable enough to work in your PJs, so why would you get anything done?

A big part of being productive at work comes from feeling good about what you’re wearing. So whether it’s nice jeans and a collared shirt or putting on some high heels instead of slippers, make sure that your clothes motivate you to do well on any given day.

Divide and Conquer

Sometimes, despite your best intentions, you can’t finish all of your tasks by the time that day comes to an end. When this happens, instead of feeling defeated, it helps to prioritize your workload to take care of the most important things first. 

For example, if there are five items that need attention but one is due today, then place that one at the top of your list so you can cross it off before focusing on the others. It’s also a good idea to concentrate on one task at a time so you won’t feel overwhelmed.

When You’ve Hit a Wall

Everyone gets those times where they just can’t get motivated to accomplish whatever task is at hand. So sometimes, it’s best to take a break and come back later when you’ve collected your thoughts/energy. 

If you find yourself struggling unsuccessfully for more than an hour, it might be time to break away from the project for a while. Going outside or simply taking a break can do wonders in reviving your motivation so that you can simply pick up where you left off with greater success.  

In Conclusion

Being productive at work isn’t just about what you’re working on but how comfortable of an environment you’re in, which determines if your mind will drift elsewhere or stay focused on the task at hand. Creating an organized workspace, dressing appropriately for work, and giving yourself some downtime during mental roadblocks can make a huge difference in how you get your work done.

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Multiple Use Of Living Space

Multiple use of living space
By | On February 15,16 | 12 Comments

Multiple Use Of Living Space

Organising your space in an efficient way that still makes your home feel like a home can be a really tough challenge. For some we don’t have the luxury of lots of space to have a games room or an office so making multiple use of living space is all that is on offer to us.

We have recently been looking at what space we do have and making it work to our needs the best way we can. We have found that we may only have small rooms to work with but by some planning and measuring we are currently making it work to full potential.

We have been purchasing items that can be easily folded away when not in use and even looking at furniture that has multiple uses to make life easier and be a great space-saver. We may have a small house but that doesn’t mean we can’t have the space we need for the areas that we are wanting does it?

Nothing makes a home feel smaller – and claustrophobic than lots of clutter, so we have been busy building/creating built-in storage space for belongings to reduce this. We have also been creating more space by de-cluttering and having a good sort out of things no longer in use and either passing to family members or handing in to our local charity shop. By doing this we have maximised our available space, giving us much more room to work with.

Now we have de-cluttered our home we have freed up some space to create a home office in our main bedroom, this however overlooks our garden, which at the moment does not look all that pretty but with spring soon upon us we will have to get planning for some garden ideas to help make our view from the office much more nicer. At the moment it is horribly over-grown and has been very much neglected due to not having the time needed to spend out there at the moment.

We have lived in our house for 13 years now and now the kid’s are older and we are in a much better position we are really enjoying putting our stamp within our home, together as a family, making it unique and multifunctional to meet all our needs.

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