Commuting to Your Home Office? Try Out This Routine.
Setting up rituals and sticking to your tasks will turn your home office into a place where you Flow through your workday.
Steven Puri
Settling Into Your Home Office
With work-from-home policies still enacted (and for some companies, permanent), it can be hard to find ways to differentiate work life from home life.
With no commute to a physical location, the place that your mind associates with work now has to be rethought.
How can you get into a Flow State when you’re unable to differentiate between couch-as-office and couch-as-sanctuary?
You’re not alone in trying to find balance.
We recommend creating a Commute Routine that can help you get into a productive mindset.
This will help to set the boundaries of work and home many are missing with pandemic restrictions.
What Can a Potential Commute Routine Look Like?
- Wake up
- Meditate
- Be active
- Shower
- Get dressed
- Fuel your body
- Breathe fresh air
- Become comfortable at your desk
- Survey your Tasks
- Flow
Your mind must be in the right headspace to be productive.
For instance, while simply rolling out of bed and staying in loungewear may seem attractive, consider changing into work clothes.
Carving out time to put yourself in a productive mindset can look different for everyone, but the most important thing is creating a distraction-free schedule.
Setting up a plan in the morning allows you to Flow through your tasks more efficiently throughout the day.
Correspondingly, you should also close out your workday—rituals matter.
We used to have a clear end when leaving the office, and we can replicate this from home!
How Can You End Your Day?
- Create your Task List for tomorrow
- Leave your desk
- Physically shift the state of your body and mind
- Take time away from work
To have successful workdays, you need to disconnect. Looking over completed Tasks and planning tomorrow’s goals will signal your brain to take a break.
If you don’t create a designated time for work, you may try to balance home and work at the same time.
To reach Flow, it’s important to be focused on one task at a time.
The most productive people are not those who are working 24 hours a day, but those who use their time efficiently.
These are unique times, and you can adapt to ensure that you’re accomplishing the Tasks you want to get done.