Master 5 simple tips to boost your productivity at home

Since the beginning of the Lunar New Year, and the outbreak of the COVID-19 Wuhan pneumonia has continued to this day, many companies have adopted a remote working strategy. Office workers leave the workplace to reduce group contact and complete their assigned work on home laptops.

However, compared to working away from home in the past, many people feel a stronger sense of deprivation and burnout after working remotely, with reduced work efficiency, unfinished work, and increased work hours. If working from home is causing trouble in your life, try the following five tips to help you live a productive life and do more with less.

Change into clean outdoor clothes when you wake up

When I was at home on vacation, I used to snooze until noon before slowly leaving the bed, watching dramas at home in my pajamas, waiting for the delivery meal to arrive, then grabbing a coat, putting it on, and going downstairs to pick up the meal.

When working from home, you can’t follow the holiday mode. You need to be self-disciplined. First of all, you can’t ignore clothing. After getting up, put on a clean and flat coat, which is easier to wind up and enter the work mode with a usual professional attitude. .

Prepare paper and pen and write down today's To do list

Twenty-four hours a day, the brain is working all the time. It is recommended that every morning before work, it is recommended to make good use of five minutes to write down the to-do list of the day in black and white, so that the work items can be written in words. Extend working hours, while properly prioritizing tasks and reducing procrastination.

Set a Pomodoro, you need to take a breath from busy work

If you are interested in efficient learning, then the "Pomodoro" must be familiar to you. The foreign writer Francesco Cirillo is the ancestor of the Pomodoro. He wrote this concept into a book, which was first published in 2006 and is still popular on the Internet. Discussion, until the beginning of this year in 2020, the book was finally translated into Chinese "Intermittent and efficient Pomodoro Technique: 25 minutes, creating the smallest unit of success, helping you eliminate distractions and improve hard work" , it is recommended to buy it as a reference book to repeat Flip over.

The core concept of Pomodoro, in short, is to coordinate plans and time, insert short breaks in each time axis to achieve intermittent effects, and promote yourself to achieve your goals within a limited time .

Don't overwork or work overtime

After a busy day, I have completed the original to-do list, but I went back to the work desk again, wanting to reduce the workload for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Unfinished tasks are always endless. If it’s time to get off work, you are already worthy of encouragement for completing today’s tasks, so let yourself clock in and get off work! Turn your attention to more important things, like your family, and your health.

increase the sense of ritual

In our day-to-day life, we get up, go to get off work, get off work, eat...and repeat the same thing indefinitely. During the weekdays, I looked forward to holidays, and on Mondays, I continued to live a world-weary life, waiting for the next weekend, and then a month and half a year passed... At the end of the year, I felt sorry for myself for not making any progress.

It is not impossible to change a boring life, try to find small actions that can bring you energy, maybe you can: make yourself a cup of hot Americano between work and after breakfast; leave the computer when you work until the afternoon when you are feeling down Get up for a ten-minute stretch to tone your muscles, or treat yourself with a pack of snacks after each task.

The above five tips are shared with you, and start making small changes tomorrow! You will find that: work and life are interlinked, and living a good life with your heart will bring high efficiency at work at the same time.

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