Review24 report<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re a newbie to remote working, we give you this shortlist of good and bad practices that happen to you while doing your job from home, and a few tips on how to improve your self-management, comfort, and overall professional results. Let\u2019s start with dos.<\/p>\n
1 Do: Estimate your daily tasks and plan your day\/week\/month goals<\/h2>\n
That\u2019s something you\u2019ve definitely done before! But now you can take a beautiful bullet journal and try a thousand ways of self-management from home. While estimating and planning, don\u2019t forget to include the time you need to eat, each hour’s breaks and stretches. That\u2019s OK to see that only 5 hours are left for working tasks. Recall how many hours you\u2019ve spent on endless meaningless meetings or stood talking at the cooler in the office. With proper planning, you\u2019ll be able to become even more productive at home, more concentrated on daily tasks. Don\u2019t forget to check your progress every week, get feedback from your manager, and talk about your current tasks with your colleagues to keep everybody on track.<\/p>\n
Set additional small goals to show yourself that you can go even further. Like learning a few options of a new tool, or try new technic in something you were doing in the same manner for a long time. It helps to bring changes in routine and bright up monotone days with a spice of unknown.<\/p>\n
2 Do: Treat yourself properly\u2014eat, drink, sleep, rest, train<\/h2>\n
Health is your main fuel to live a full life. And to do the job, you have to stay healthy. It\u2019s not only about various food and lots of water, you have heard of it a thousand times. But it\u2019s about an orthopedic chair for working place at home and the high-quality mattress for sleeping with the natural bed linen. It\u2019s about regular doctor visiting and sincere self-care. Remember what a stewardess tells you each time you board a plane? First, put an oxygen mask on yourself, then care about others. Without a full charge of the inner battery, you won\u2019t be successful, both remotely or in the office.<\/p>\n
Regular rest during the day will turn you into someone more productive than people who don\u2019t know how to stop. They do stop their working activities by only switching to procrastination that drains their time and concentration resources. So, if you\u2019re reaching your phone to check your email for the tenth time, put it aside, get up and stretch yourself like in a kindergarten warm-up. Or dance, or drink a cup of water while doing squats.<\/p>\n
3 Do: Zone your home space<\/h2>\n
Even if you live in the tiniest place, tell everybody the forbidden zone where you\u2019re working. Mark it in red. Set the time limits. Use your headphones. Find a zone where you can call your parents during a break. If you\u2019re easily distracted, move everything that distracts you from the view, except for working objects.<\/p>\n
Maybe your clothes aren\u2019t so important if they\u2019re comfy and don\u2019t mess your working mood, but if a shirt makes you feel fancier, put it on daily!<\/p>\n
4 Do: Pay attention to your family, even if you think they distract you too much<\/h2>\n
If your kids come in the middle of the important meeting to your room asking you for something, you can pay them a few minutes and return without cries and hysteria and no need to apologize. Different situations may happen, but in most cases, you\u2019ll be able to choose between arguing with your family or trying to deal with them. Even if you think that it\u2019s impossible, remember that your work is something you\u2019re doing for your family\u2019s sake, and your family loves you and must understand how important is your work for you and for all of them. So if your kid is asking for a play, you just look at your schedule and fill another break you planned with a 15-minutes basketball tournament.<\/p>\n
5 Do: Keep the contact with your colleagues and care about them<\/h2>\n
If you miss them, just say so. Or if you see that somebody is suffering from loneliness or has a disease and needs support, ask if they need any help. If you can, call them for a walk or bring some homemade food. Simple human-like things can be heart-warming for those who get into trouble or are so stressed that they can barely deal with their routine. Doing the right things and supporting others outside your workspace can become another source of inspiration for the challenges of a remote job.<\/p>\n
And here are a few dont\u2019s. Try these tips, and discover how you become even more productive.<\/p>\n
1 Don\u2019t substitute your life with work<\/h2>\n
Even if you think that some tasks are taking more time while doing at home, it\u2019s not a reason to overtime. Don\u2019t try to fit your previous schedule, find your new tempo, and follow it until it starts improving. Remember that your hobbies are waiting, your sports miss you too. As you\u2019ll dig into work deeper and deeper, there will be fewer reasons to return to your own life. But remember that your life is limited, while the number of tasks is endless. And you have to choose consciously what\u2019s important for you.<\/p>\n
2 Don\u2019t wait for the better times<\/h2>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s only now, then I\u2019ll return to the office, and everything will be like before…\u201d\u2014did you hear this tale before? Nothing can return. You have to adapt to new circumstances and succeed here and now. There\u2019ll be no better time to start changing yourself to feel better and work more efficiently. Do it now.<\/p>\n
3 Don\u2019t force yourself or others to love remote working<\/h2>\n
This \u201choly war\u201d is relatively new, but you can see that the discussion is pretty intense. Whenever you like remote working or not, you shouldn\u2019t risk your relationship to proving your position. Stay neutral in those discussions to win the most. If you don\u2019t feel like loving remote, additional emotions will only start a bigger fire inside and won\u2019t help you to adapt if you have to. If you like remote working, share with your colleagues some tips on how you come to it and how you organize your life.<\/p>\n
4 Don\u2019t multitask<\/h2>\n
Forget about it. Just don\u2019t do it. If you\u2019re currently snowed under the avalanche of simultaneous tasks, cancel all of them, and prioritize them. Do everything in order, and then you\u2019ll get less messy results and won\u2019t burn out too fast. If multitasking is an ordinary thing for you, just set your limits and do not overwork yourself.<\/p>\n
5 Don\u2019t forget to party!<\/h2>\n
Each week, treat yourself with new food, new views over your window, meeting new people, doing new things, singing new songs in the shower. The feeling of being a rainbow unicorn of luck and success is not something that comes naturally, but a result of positive circumstances that you create on your own. So think about parties, plan and live partying, and become a beam of smiles and inspiration, even if you sit all day in your old favorite chair shredded by your cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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