Work at Home Productivity Tips -

If you are going to be successful working at home, you need to have a few tricks up your sleeve.

One of the most basic and best is to set a routine of a few minutes a day keeping things in order. It is quite easy once you get used to it and the results are immense.

Every day when I “get to work” I set my timer for 15 minutes I work on keeping my inbox in order. Guess what happened before I got into this habit. I had over 10,000 emails in my inbox alone, not even counting my folders. They where even worse!

Now I spend so much less time looking for emails and it isn’t instant overwhelm the minute I open my email program.

I also do at least 5 minutes desk clean up, amazingly that is all it takes now that I am in the habit.

I also review and/or set up my plans and pull my tickle file folder for the day.

I am in the process now of adding one more, pulling the files that I need to set up my projects for the next day, especially the first one. I can’t believe how much time this saves me because I don’t have to think first thing in the morning (a big bonus). I can just jump in.

It’s effectiveness is probably also related to David Allen’s highly effective method of planning using the “next action” approach.