Work At Home Strategy:  Take a Break! Congratulations: you have decided to work at home!  And your home office organization is setting you up for maximum productivity.
Then, what are you doing in the kitchen? Surely this is no time for food preparation; you are supposed to be working  (it is called 'working at home' for this precise reason.
) Hey, get out of the laundry room; this is not chores time: it is work time.
Feeling busted?  Caught in the act of not working at home, like you say you do? Feeling like a fraud after all the home office ideas you have implemented? Not to worry.
One of the advantages of working from home is that you can nip into the kitchen or the laundry room and get a few things done.
I like to think of these domestic diversions as 'breaks.
' But be careful to ensure that these become anything more than quick time-outs.
Two home office tips will make this strategy work beautifully for you.
Firstly, set a break time for yourself: schedule it.
This will prevent you from walking away from your home office, and your work, when feeling frustrated, bored or stuck on a task.
Plug away on that document revision, and then reward yourself with fifteen minutes of fresh air and blackberry picking.
Complete that desktop re-organization, storing all your office supplies together in one easily accessible place.
Then relax with ten minutes of laundry sorting (trust me, it won't feel like work!) Secondly, keep an eye on the clock.
Ten or fifteen minutes away from your home workstation will yield maximum efficiency and keep your productivity soaring.
The benefits of this home office tactic are big if you stay on-track.
Your work as well as your household tasks will get ticked off that 'To Do' list in a jiffy.
You will be continually refreshed and motivated.
Your yin and yang will work together in perfect harmony.
Now that you are mastering home office organization and becoming highly productive in all areas of working at home, here's one more tip: remember to wash the blackberry stains from your fingertips before loading the printer with paper.