As a busy mum with a home office, juggling work and family responsibilities can be challenging. However, with the right strategies and techniques, you can make the most of your home office and create a productive and fulfilling work environment. Here are some practical tips that can help you use your home office better. Time management and productivity tips Set clear goals for each day and prioritize tasks accordingly. Use a to-do list or task manager to keep track of your tasks and deadlines. Use the Pomodoro technique to break up your work into manageable intervals and take regular breaks ..read more

Introducing the Refreshed “7 Days to Organized Home Office” Course – Your Ultimate Guide to a Clutter-Free, Productive Workspace Hello, everyone! We are thrilled to announce that we have revamped and refreshed our popular course, “7 Days to Organized Home Office”! Our team has worked tirelessly to bring you an updated version of the course, packed with new features and valuable content to help you create and maintain an organized, efficient, and stress-free home office environment. Here’s what you can expect to get from our newly refreshed course: 1. Instructional Videos for Each Task We under ..read more

You want to get in shape, have a clean house, finish an important project at work…but things just keep getting in the way. If this sounds familiar, procrastination could be preventing you from moving forward and getting things done. In many cases, we procrastinate because we either can’t decide what to do next or are simply getting distracted from the things that need to get done. The tips below can help hone your focus and ensure you are able to avoid some common procrastination pitfalls — and boost your productivity as well.  1. Define Success What do you actually want to achieve? Somet ..read more

An ergonomically safe home office delivers many valuable benefits. A variety of statistics prove that it enhances productivity, enables people to avoid serious health problems and decreases missed days of work. By preventing fatigue, it also reduces mistakes. These tips can help you improve the ergonomics of your office: 1. Table or Desk Consider using an adjustable work surface that lets you choose between sitting and standing. People generally experience less neck, shoulder and back discomfort when they spend less time sitting. Try to alternate between standing and sitting every half-hour. J ..read more

It’s no secret that happiness and productivity are closely entwined. When employees aren’t happy, they are distracted; they can’t be their best or most efficient when they are worried or frustrated. But more to the point, what can managers and employers do to boost employee happiness? How can employees improve their mood? 1. Employees: The secret to productivity is work-life balance Employees must manage their work-life balance rather than overworking themselves. When employees overwork themselves, they frequently find they are less effective and productive; instead of doing 2 hours of work, t ..read more

It’s hard. When work is always present, it’s very easy to constantly start more work. But it’s also not healthy. When you don’t have an appropriate work life balance, you start to hate your work… and feel resentful about what you aren’t accomplishing in your daily life. There are a few things you can do to have work life balance when working from home. 1. Set regular hours for yourself and stick to them. This will help you create a routine and keep your work life separate from your personal life. Let everyone know your hours too; this tells them when they shouldn’t be bothering you with home-r ..read more

If you work at home, you face a double threat when it comes to organizing your office — your work stuff and things from other parts of the home that migrate in. Taking some time to get organized can help you find what you need, when you need it and make your office space one that you can truly enjoy working in. Here are 5 simple and nearly instant ways to reorganize your workspace. 1. Set your mind to declutter regularly. Make a decluttering routine. If it isn’t something you use regularly, need or absolutely love, it needs to go — or at least leave your office space. Tackle decluttering a dra ..read more

Procrastination is the boogeyman that most of us blame for our lack of productivity. It is a strange psychological phenomenon that often has roots in many other aspects of your life. Learning how to overcome procrastination is vital to your long-term success, though. How do you do that? Let’s look a little deeper at procrastination and how to overcome it.  1. Understanding Procrastination The first thing you need to do in order to overcome procrastination is to understand it. We know we procrastinate, but we often don’t know why. There is no blanket answer to this question. The causes of ..read more

Consistent, sustainable productivity is all about priority setting. Prioritization is a soft skill that can literally affect your success at every level. Without honing prioritization skills, the only thing you can really count on is frustration, decreased productivity, and high levels of stress. Prioritization is the ability to sort through tasks and determine which tasks need attention first and which tasks need the most attention. It also includes creating lists of tasks in descending order of urgency. Setting priorities this way helps people to use their time more wisely, and also allows t ..read more

Who doesn’t enjoy crafting? It’s a fun way to unwind after a stressful day, and many families enjoy it as a way to spend quality time together. The crafts projects that you and your family enjoy working on are a great source of pleasure, to be sure. But if the various crafts supplies are sprawling all over the place, you run the risk of losing items or not being able to find and use them when you want. And when you are working in a small space, it’s particularly important to come up with a way to organize your craft supplies. 1. Label Everything Put labels on all of your supplies so you c ..read more