Category: Working from Home
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WFH Tip #5: Blocking out the day
Imagine if you will being at your office. The ambient din of typing provides a calming, perhaps even motivating backdrop for your work. Conversations between coworkers happen throughout the day around you. A phone rings down the hall. Unless you’re front lines in IT or running the front desk, chances are good you’ve got time…
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WFH Tip #4: Snacking
If working from home is your new normal, you’re likely burning extra mental energy adapting to a new normal. The foods you eat throughout the day play an important role nourishing mind and body with fuel you need to thrive. At the start, it’s easy to fall into bad snacking habits that can be difficult…
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WFH Tip #3: Curate your music
Listening to music provides a rhythm to work to – a soundtrack for your productivity. When you’re at home, having a soundtrack helps avoid being distracted by the soundscape of your home environment and instead provide you with some control to use to your advantage. Curate rather than consume While it’s really easy to simply…
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WFH Tip #2: Clean you Window
Working from home is isolating. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been working remotely for 10 years or 10 hours – the lack of people working alongside you is one of the first things you will come to miss. The feeling of isolation can’t entirely be addressed by conference calls and online chats – our minds…
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WFH Tip #1: Working at Home with Kids
Kids aren’t born knowing that they can’t barge in at any time when you are working. They see Mom and/or Dad at a desk typing away as an opportunity for grabbing our attention. What is work? Little do they know yet, that what we’re doing when we’re working is so much more than just sitting…