#stayathome strive and thrive!
In these blogs I am hoping to offer some ideas and support for those of you working from home and your teams.
So here are a few ideas:
Make space to work - even if this means the kitchen table or your bed, get it set up and clear the decks. This will help you to focus the mind and prepare your brain for work.
Get dressed as you would do if you were going to work, maybe as you would do for a more casual day at the office. This helps your brain to slip into your working persona. We all have a variety of sides to our personality, at home we will present differently to when we are at work; work clothes are part of this persona.
Make a timetable. Sunday evenings or Monday mornings are best for this, I plan to go into this in more detail in the next blog and give you some templates to use. Include work, rest, exercise, nature and social on your timetable; humans are designed to ‘ebb and flow’ and we need the influence of others to feel connected. Remember you old school timetable?
Communicate with your fellow householders, be kind to each other, respect each other’s space and discuss your individual schedules e.g. when you have online meetings, so peace and privacy is in place and when you plan to exercise so you can choose do this separately or together.
Adapt - this is probably the most import aspect of working from home, those who are adaptable will survive and thrive. who is in your household? Young children will need your attention, they have short attention spans and need to exercise too, try to fit your working day around their needs - work in 30 minute increments - this will help you to focus too. Break for 10 minutes to spend time with them, exercise or simply give them your attention, set a timer so they know when you will be available for them, Have them do their school work with you or colouring next to you and explain to them you will chat about it when the timer goes off. They will learn some great social skills too.
Remember we are meant to ebb and flow; work, rest and exercise. Hard work is not necessarily long work.
