More and more people are working from home. While this brings a lot of advantages, there are some things to be careful of too.
Benefits include not having office distractions, such as office ‘chats’, phone calls and meetings. You’ll also cut down travelling time, increasing time available for productive work and relaxation. You can be more flexible in how you approach work, and enjoy work more.
However, it’s possible to get distracted by children, pets or social media, and some people struggle to work without supervision. It’s also difficult to switch off sometimes, with apps and mobile devices meaning you can be always available.
1. Set up your work area. Try and use the same space for work, and if you can’t, set up some specific items that you always use. Avoid distractions – if only by shutting the door!
2. Limit your working time. Make sure you limit the time you spend on routine activities that aren’t particularly productive (such as emails – avoid responding to notifications) and set time aside for breaks.
3. Reward yourself. Create ‘rituals’ to celebrate finishing work, have a definite end / cut off point to working so you can differentiate between work and home life.
If you don’t, then either hit the back arrow or click the button to go back to look at another exercise.
If you do, then carry on down the page and follow the instructions.
If you want to include this exercise in your action plan, select Yes from on the right then click the green button saying ‘Include this exercise’.
Sadly you’ll go back to the top of this page – please scroll down and fill in the bits that appear before here.
See the action plans you have created, and click the button to copy the action plan title in the one you want to associate this exercise with. A box will appear with the name of the action plan shown – click the grey button to the left of it. It will wobble and this will copy the title of the action plan into the clipboard. Then hit the X in the top corner to close that box.
Then click below where it says ‘Paste here’ and right click to paste the action plan title into the box and press the green button.
Now you’ve copied the action plan title, paste it on the right and press the green button. After a short pause you will be taken to a page where you will set up your own version of this exercise.
Now you’ve copied the action plan title, paste it on the right and press the green button. After a short pause you will be taken to a page where you will set up your own version of this exercise.
Please bear with us while we set up your own version of this exercise. It will take a short while.
Now you’ve planned your exercise, you will be sent to the page for monitoring how you’re getting on with it.
Press the green button every time you want to add details of when you do the exercise. When you’ve decided how you feel about the exercise, you can fill in the last bits saying how you found it, then press the ‘Update Your Exercise’ button.
Times of change can be a challenge, no doubt! Whether it’s a relationship breakup, job loss, or being diagnosed with a serious health issue. Or you may WANT things to be different, but it feels a little scary or overwhelming. The butterfly reminds us change can be beautiful, even necessary, in order to realize our full potential and live our best life.
