Increasingly, we see people trying to work at home or follow more flexible procedures, especially as gas prices rise. For those bloggers who are self-employed working from home can be a great option to reduce the costs associated with the operation of your online business. It may be worth it to make your home your business center; So you can avoid paying rent for the commercial space.
In any case, working from home has some great advantages for Internet marketers, entrepreneurs and even bloggers; However, working from home, you can also create its fair share of problems. Most of the problems associated with working from home performance.
As someone who regularly works from home I came up with a checklist of tips that I would like to follow whenever I know that I'm going to go through a period of work from home. I hope these tips can be helpful for those of you who spend a great deal of time working from home as well.
Create a specific area
It is important to have a place in your home, which is dedicated only to do the work. I have an extra room that I turned into a study. Can I close the door and turn off all the other parts of the House when I am working at home. If you do not have this option, make every effort to create a work area is read-only. If it should be in the kitchen, make sure the remap table is cleared and all the clutter is gone. Wherever you work, it should be a place where you can get into the right mindset.
Save Workspace, clean and organized
How often do you find yourself procrastinating the project great blogging, thinking, you really need to organize your desktop? I've done this before! I admit it. If you're like me, then you too can succumb to the temptation. Not even give yourself the option. If you have a slow day, take time to thoroughly clean and organize your workspace. In this way, you can give all your attention on big projects and not worry about some papers that are not in order.
Minimizing distractions
Depending on how you can change the types of distractions, you need to minimize. Some of us can work without any noise, while the rest of us should have work in the background. I prefer to have music, but I can not work if the TV is on. So naturally, I don't have a TV in my Office, but I have a great sound system. Set up blogs, respectively.
Make a list of objectives to achieve
When you sit down to start a work at home blogging, create a list of tasks or goals that must be run on the day. This list will give you the structure of the day, which will fill up for the lack of structure, you can feel, being in the comfort of your own home. Refer to the list regularly and delete tasks as you complete them. You can use all types of focal points on your computer; Nevertheless, I still prefer a legal pad and a nice pen to keep track of my performance.
Follow the procedure for regular
When I'm working at home, I keep the same hours as I did when I used to have to go into the Office. This means that I'm up at 6: 15 am, showered, dressed and ready to go at 8 am, regardless of whether I'm at home or Office. Procedure keeps me in the "thread" and it also keeps me to justice as soon as I have a certain amount of time to get all of my tasks to do. It also keeps me on the same schedule that the corporate world that many of my freelance projects and blogs are.
Coffee break, lunch!
As tempting as it can be to work through lunch, so you can stop working one hour earlier, don't do it! Lunch are important because they allow us to recharge our mental and physical energy. Give yourself a full hour!
Communicate with other
When you work from home, you should make more effort to stay connected with your colleagues and fellow bloggers. They can't just stay at your desk to talk to you about the project, how can it be once made your colleagues when you have a full working day; fellow bloggers have to rely on electronic means of communication. This means that you will have to be doubly sure to reply to their emails to keep your performance, especially if you collaborated with other bloggers for the project.
Stop working at 5 pm
Finally, make sure that you stop working directly at 5 pm. You may think that you have more time to work, because you're at home, but really need to give yourself a break. It is important to compartmentalize your work and personal life. After you finish the work at home, close the door to your Office and relax.
This productivity tips that helped me a lot during my work from home career. If you can think of more to add, please share your ideas in the comments.
