Quick Fire Working from Home Tips: Saving Time PT1

In the previous blog I talked about creating a time diary in order to learn where your time is currently being used. From there you can start making changes to your day to day actions and accomplish more.

1. Use your time diary.
2. Understand that you must manage your time, not time manage you.
3. Know what you are working towards (set goals).
4. Create a ‘to do’ list.
5. Create routines for regular tasks.
6. Prioritise what is important.
7. Set targets for the week.
8. Set tasks for the day.
9. Establish regular working hours.
10. Take regular breaks.

Regards
Rachael Ross
Purely Peppermint
The home and office organising expert, helping individuals and businesses establish a successful home office.

Quick Fire Working from Home tip: Make a Time Diary

Have you ever wondered where all your time goes, or why you can’t accomplish as much in a day as you would like? One way to improve how you manage your time is to keep track of how your time is currently being spent by compiling a time diary. To do this you should:

1. Have a piece of paper handy.
2. Commit to recording for a week.
3. Write down that time you started a task.
4. What you did.
5. Why you choose that task.
6. When you finished.
7. Include everything you do.
8. Include non work related tasks that may be stealing your time.
9. Review your time dairy at the end of the week.
10. Have you noticed a pattern regarding how long certain tasks take?
11. What surprises were revealed?
12. What time of the day is your most productive?
13. What is the biggest waste of your time?
14. What is the first change you can make?
15. Use what you have learned in how you schedule your day.
16. If need be, continue your time diary for longer.

Regards
Rachael Ross
Purely Peppermint
The home and office organising expert.
Helping individuals and businesses establish a successful home office.

Quick Fire Working from Home tip: Benefits of Working from Home

This list is limitless, but if you are working from home but not enjoying these benefits it is time to contact Purely Peppermint

1. Flexibility.
2. Better lifestyle.
3. More time for yourself.
4. More time with your family.
5. Freedom.
6. Setting own work schedule.
7. Lower business set up costs.
8. No commute.
9. Higher productivity.
10. Being the boss.
11. Reduced stress.
12. Choice.

Regards
Rachael Ross
Purely Peppermint
The home and office organising expert, helping individuals and businesses establish a successful home office.

Quick Fire Working from Home tip: Having Focus

Some days you are able to fly through several tasks and complete more than you had scheduled. Then there are the days when you just can seem to concentrate on anything specific and spend a lot of time doing very little. What can be done to improve your focus it has become blurry.

1. When are you most productive?
2. Work on one task at a time.
3. Prioritise.
4. Have a clutter free work space.
5. Take regular breaks.
6. Work around your family needs.
7. Remove distractions.
8. Have a target to work towards.
9. Set aside time to work uninterrupted.
10. Know your priorities.

Regards
Rachael Ross
Purely Peppermint
The home and office organising expert, helping individuals and businesses establish a successful home office.