5 Secrets For Increasing Productivity While Working at Home

Posted by Anna on May 7th, 2019

One of the most common challenges to face while working at home is to stay focused.

There are many distractions around like an interesting book on a bookshelf, a fridge full of snacks or the newest episode of favorite Netflix series.

Luckily, you can easily improve your focus and be productive throughout the day.

Here are 5 secrets on how to increase effectiveness when working at home.

1. Organize & Schedule Your Day

The biggest mistake you want to avoid is to wake up, drink coffee and have absolutely no clue what to do next. Planning ahead your tasks, writing down goals is crucial to having a productive day.

If you are wondering how to plan your day the best way, starting a bullet journal is my number 1.

Bullet journaling is a fully customizable system that allows you to track all your tasks, events and appointment in one place. All you need is a notebook and a pen.

2. Prioritize your tasks

Now, when you know what to do, it’s important to prioritize things on your to-do list. Have you ever heard about the 80 20 rule? Yes, as a matter of fact only 20 percent of your tasks will have a real impact on an outcome. That is why prioritizing daily tasks are the key for a successful day.

3. Declutter your space

Unmade bed, kids toys on the floor and desk with a paper pile, dirty coffee mugs and cookie crumbs - meet the worst enemy of productivity. A mess.

It is very hard to stay focused in a cluttered apartment. The last thing you should do before you go to bed is to declutter and clean up your work environment. Then, after you get up, your place is prepared for a productive day.

4.  Stop procrastinating

It is very easy to fall into a trap of being theoretically busy. Many of us have this bad habit of dealing with easy tasks first. If you want to increase your effectiveness, start your day with the most difficult problem. After you solved it, you may feel the nice endorphins flow and want to do more.

5. Work smarter not harder

Besides organizing, scheduling, prioritizing your tasks, decluttering a workplace and beating procrastination, here are a couple of tips on how to work smarter.

First of all, turn your phone off. Checking out an Instagram feed or notifications can be distracted. How many times, instead of spending only 5 minutes on Facebook, you scrolled through feed 2 hours?  

Secondly, finish what you start. It is exciting to start a new project. However, after a few hours, you may want to abandon it. Do not do it. Complete the task no matter what.

Thirdly, multitasking is always a bad idea. Quit it right now. It may hurt your productivity even by 40%. Instead of it, be organized and focused - just make a routine and stick to it.

Working for home has a lot of advantages. But it can be also challenging for your productivity and effectiveness. After reading this article, you know how to deal with it. Good luck!