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Enjoy Success From Home: How to Minimize Your Work Time So You can Maximize Your Free Time

Guest post by: Erica Njie

Article Overview: Working from home should allow you more time to have fun and do the things you enjoy doing most, and it does, but only if you're productive during the time you're supposed to be working. Here are three tips to help you be more productive while you're "at work" so you can have more fun and enjoy the rest of your life when you're not working.

Enjoy Success From Home: How to Minimize Your Work Time So You can Maximize Your Free Time

Working from home should allow you more time to have fun and do the things you enjoy doing most, and it does, but only if you're productive during the time you're supposed to be working. Here are three tips to help you be more productive while you're "at work" so you can have more fun and enjoy the rest of your life when you're not working. Productivity Tip #1: Have a Separate Space for Work

If you don't have the means to have a separate room as your work space, then make a space somewhere in your home where, when you go there, you know you're now "at work" and are no longer just sitting around at home.

Designating a separate space where your work activities will take place sets apart your work activities from the other activities you do at home. In your work space, be sure to surround yourself with only the things you need to get your work done. Usually, this includes a desk, a computer, a telephone/fax machine, a comfortable office chair, a notepad, and something to write with.

If you surround yourself with things you don't need to get your work done (such as books or television) it'll be much easier for you to stop the work you're doing and do something else.

Productivity Tip #2: Check Your Email Only Twice A Day

Checking email can be a BIG time waster. Often, we don't even realize how much time we waste checking email. We go into our inbox thinking we'll just see what's there and before we know it, we've technically been "at work" for an hour yet we're still reading and responding to email.

Setting specific times (and time limits) for checking email allows you to save the time you'd use checking unimportant emails for getting done the important work that needs doing if you're going to be able pay the bills. Check your email once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

During the rest of the day, leave your email client closed so you don't hear the dings or the clicks that indicate receiving a new message. Doing this will make you less tempted to open your inbox when you should be working.

Productivity Tip #3: Set Regular Hours And Stick To Them

Keeping a set schedule is one of the more difficult things you'll have to do, but it's one of the best ways to stay productive and ensure you get to enjoy all of the free time working from home allows you.

A regular "job" would require you to be there at a certain time and stay for a certain number of hours each day because when you're at work, you'll be doing what you're paid to do instead of whatever you feel like doing at the moment.

Apply this same mentality to your "work at home" schedule and you'll immediately see an increase in your productivity.

The Bottom Line

Make sure you treat your at home work as you would any other job. Show up when you're supposed to and don't spend your time doing things you're not being paid to do. Then, you'll be able to take full advantage of all the extra benefits working from home affords you.

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