Work From Home Tips
Zack Greenfield • March 22, 2022
Today we're gonna go over work from home tips. And many of you may not know, but now you do - I've been working from home for almost eight years now. So I'm not one of these pandemic babies. I'm a tried and true veteran of working from home. I've built the office here on the property, but I graduated from the kitchen table. So stick with me and I'm gonna share what I've learned over the last eight years.
Okay guys. So full disclosure on this video, we're gonna talk about work from home tips. I've been working from home for, uh, about, I guess it's been eight years now. I know a lot of you out there have started working from home in the last two years during our pandemic and all the changes that everybody has been going through. And some of you are gonna continue to work from home. And I gotta tell you, it's not, it can be challenging. It's not the easiest thing in the world to do, stay disciplined and maintain a productive schedule. When you don't have that social conformity of a office environment and you don't have the boss like breathing down your neck or sort of breathing by putting eyes on you all the time. So it takes a certain amount of self-discipline.
I'm gonna go through some things that I've learned. And I, frankly, we've learned, cuz my team also all works from home and we've all figured out how to be productive, which is great. So the first thing, just starting from the beginning of the day that I think is really meaningful is to, to start with a regular morning ritual. So do not out of bed and then like into your office chair with your fuzzy slippers and be like, yeah, working from home is great. And you're just like sucking on your coffee. And you're still like in some, pajamas, like it's just not setting you up. It's not setting your mindset. So a big part of that and being productive is still having a normal transitional routine that takes you from sort of the idea that you're at home waking up to this work mode, right?
So it's like, it's a behavioral thing, but it is also prepares your mind to shift into work mode. So you do these normal things like, maybe go to the gym, but that's my favorite thing way to start the day don't plug right into screens and phones like right away as you roll over, because if you're working from home, you're probably gonna log six or eight hours in front of a screen anyways. So give yourself a, a break in the morning and let your mind be clear without all that input, get some exercise, go outside and then do a regular, regular transitional routine where you shower get dressed, get ready. If you wear makeup, put some makeup on or whatever the, whatever you would do, if you were gonna go meet and deal with the outside world, I mean, at least do 90% of that and there are, there'll be days that you may not do it all, but in general, the more you can create that transitional routine, the more you'll mentally be like prepared when you finally sit down to focus and actually get some things done.
So that's my, that's like the first part of the day. The other thing is, what's your office space look like? And I said in the beginning, in the intro of the video, I started kind of casually working from home a long time ago where I had an office I could drive to, but I was in a position where I, I didn't have to go there all the time. And so I would work at home like at the kitchen counter, and we had like a little bill pay desk there. And then as I started , doing agency work and working for clients, I started building this business like at the kitchen and it sucked, it was one of the worst things I've ever done. I had like kids running behind me, screaming and pots and pans and people making stuff and the microwave running and, I was just in the kitchen counter.
It's great. If you wanna like check some YouTube videos and pay the bills, but to get some work done there, it just really, wasn't a great spot. So one of the first things I did when I just, was realizing that I was turning, things into a real business was really get focused on creating a dedicated office space. And that's, if you can do that in your home, I highly recommend it like a place that doesn't even feel like your home. Right? Like it, it, it may even be painted different colors and like different carpet and a real office type desk and all of these things, if you can do that, then when you go into that space, it's like, again, it's a complete mental shift into that work mode. And it's cool about doing that is it makes working from home a lot.
Be sustainable if that's something that you wanna continue to have as an option in your life, right. It makes the work from home reality, something that you can stick with for years and years like I have. Right. So, and, and the other thing that goes without saying with that is like in a office environment where you go and work with others, somebody else is cleaning up and they vacuum and they, they take trash out every night. And you might, there's like all that. You, you have to do that at home if you're doing it,in your own space, but it's worth not having a lot of clutter. And frankly, I still do the bills in the kitchen and, since then have built another building on our property where it is just for work and that workspace, I don't do the personal stuff here.
I wouldn't take my bills to, to the office, and, and sit down and start looking at the water bill if I work for somebody and in an this environment. So you, you can think of it even down to that level. Right. And then the other thing, uh, I think is really important is like to take breaks during the day. Right. And even, that might mean like every two hours or every hour something, getting up, working, I've been since, this year actually been working, standing up, which is awesome. And it, it took some time to get used to it, but it's getting better and better.
And I think that's a, a good one, if you can do it. The, the other thing to think about though, when taking breaks is, and before the pandemic, I used to love doing this, I would take my laptop and go to like a local cafe or the, the bar at a restaurant and, and work in like kind busier environment to, get yourself back out there in the real world a little bit. So you're not just fully isolated and make it worth getting dressed and tying your shoes and all that stuff and, and get out there and get a little bit of that recharge in the middle of the day, maybe from being around other folks and come back in, finish the second half of the day. So I think that's a great thing to do is to take breaks to get away from the screen, but also breaks during the week that are like, I'm gonna go out to lunch and I'm gonna do some work at lunch, at a cafe.
And you might do that once or twice a week. Right. And then that really helps to break things up and sort of make you feel like more of a, a like participating human being. Okay. And I think that's the main things that, uh, I had written down here and it's a sustainable proposition. I mean, you guys can stick with it. If it's something you really want to do, it's been awesome for me. It's allowed me to, uh, be available for my kids and family and create my own schedule and all the other benefits. I think everybody's starting to recognize, but to do it over the long term, 2, 3, 5, maybe even 10 years, the stuff I just talked about is gonna become incredibly important. So I hope you like this video, go ahead and smash the like button for us for, and we will see you on the next one on quick and dirty marketing.
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