Top 10 Work from Home Productivity Tips

Top 10 Work from Home Productivity Tips. Discover how to stay productive working from home and develop your mind for success.

In this tutorial video we cover the following topics:

- 5 Tips for Avoiding Procrastination
- How to Create a Highly Productive Work Environment in Your Home Office
- How to Create a Strict Routine When Working From Home
- How to Deal With Loneliness and Social Isolation When You Work From Home
- How to Deal With Small Tasks and Prevent Overwhelm
- How to Enter and Stay in a Flow State When Working From Home
- The Perfect Morning Routine for a Productive Working Day
- The Top Tools and Apps for Getting More Work Done From Home
- These 5 Hacks With Make Working From Home Much More Enjoyable
- Why You Should Tackle the Biggest Challenge First

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When it comes to working from home, the most important place in the house (or apartment) is your home office. Ideally, this should be somewhere you can use for just work – like a spare bedroom or outbuilding. At a pinch, your bedroom can also be used as an office, but you should avoid areas used by other people in your household like the kitchen. Even if you live alone, don't turn your living room into an office because, subconsciously, you associate this space with relaxing and this can make it hard to avoid distractions during working hours.

Make a note of the necessary equipment you're going to need. Obviously, you're going to need a computer. It's best to get a desktop computer rather than a laptop as it will have a bigger monitor and if the keyboard breaks you can simply get another one and plug it in instead of having to send the whole thing away for repairs.

You'll need a desk to work at and a nice, comfy chair to sit on. If you decide to use a standing desk, make sure you can raise your monitor to a sufficient height so you're not having to stoop over to look at it.

It's also very important to get a separate phone line. When clients know you use your home line for work, some will have no qualms about phoning you at ten o'clock at night to discuss a project. You can get the phone company to install a separate landline, get a separate cellphone for business calls, or use a voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) like Skype. In fact, using Skype-In is a perfect solution because your clients can dial a landline number and have the call routed over the Internet to your computer or cellphone. Regardless of how you do it, be sure to divert all calls to voicemail when you're out of hours.

When you're working from home it's vitally important that you keep regular hours. If you're working remotely for your boss, you'll have to anyway!

Even if you're running your own business, it's important to separate your working time from your home time. This is why it makes sense to have a separate home office (like we were talking about yesterday) because when your working day is done, you can simply shut the door and forget about work.

Have a schedule and stick to it – just like you would at the office. This doesn't necessarily mean you have to stick to the same old 9-5, but there should be some sort of regularity and limit to the number of hours you put in.

To help put yourself in a business frame of mind, dress like you would for the office and wear different clothes every day. There's a great temptation to sit around in your pajamas all day when you work from home and don't see anybody. Avoid it at all costs. Wearing business attire and fixing your hair and grooming just like you would if you were going out to work, helps to concentrate the mind.

Keep the working week separate from the weekend. If you don't usually work on Saturday or Sunday, don't be afraid to say “no” to clients who dump a whole load of work on you last thing on Friday and expect it to be done on Monday. The same goes if you're working remotely for your boss. If he/she wouldn't expect you to come into the office over the weekend without paying you overtime, don't be a pushover now you're working from home.

Of course the best thing about working from home is there's no commuting, so you'll have extra time. Use it wisely. Spend more time with your kids, go for a run or play a round of golf. It's up to you.