{"id":3733,"date":"2020-04-28T12:10:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2024-01-11T07:21:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T07:21:23","slug":"how-to-stay-productive-and-sane-while-working-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new-blog.artlist.io\/blog\/how-to-stay-productive-and-sane-while-working-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stay Productive (and sane) While Working From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working from home can be a liberating experience but it does require a bit of discipline, too. Having worked from home for over 12 years, this is what I\u2019ve learned from my own experiences and those of other colleagues, to help you maintain your productivity (and possibly your sanity, too) if you\u2019re new to\u00a0working from home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Establish a workspace<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Deciding where you\u2019re going to work and turning it into an office, make-shift or not, is very important. It\u2019s somewhere for you to associate with \u2018work\u2019 and not home, which helps maintain a boundary between work life and home life and will help you focus. But it also means that you\u2019re less likely to lose or misplace things if they are in your dedicated workspace. Wherever you choose to work, I always advise away from working in bed. You need to be able to separate where you work from where you sleep.<\/p>\n

Get dressed and \u2018go\u2019 to work<\/strong><\/h2>\n

To help get you into the mindset of going to work, get dressed as you would for work outside your home, and if you can, take a walk around the block before stepping back in your door to your workplace. If you can\u2019t walk around the block, just stepping outside of your front door and back inside will help. Both of these things help you to separate work from home and should aid your productivity and focus.<\/p>\n

For a more visual presentation of how to do it, check out this video by the guys at Squareflare that\u00a0came in 2nd<\/a>\u00a0in our recent\u00a0Home B-roll challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n