Mobile And Home Working. A Few Ideas To Make It Pay And Avoid Distractions
Home based working and mobile working are a on the face of it recent occurence . A number of companies now permit home working in a sort or another and many positively insist on mobile working as part of the travelling process.
A good tip with home working is to preserve the room you mean to be working in as free of outside influence as possible. This seems an obvious trick but its very easy to mix work related and non work related items on the same desk and then the temptation will always creep in to do your personal stuff and before you know it, whoops its 5.30 and you haven’t written a single mail , or filled in a single form . Keep your workplace uncluttered and then you can only do what is in front of your, or on your laptop .
A further often overlooked trick to help you stay fixed on your work is to wear a full business suit complete with tie, or the female equivalent. Good Grief , I hear you shout . Why on earth would I do that when I’m planning to be working from my home office on my Home Based Franchise business?
Well it’s a psychological trick for both you and people who shares the house with you including the family. It shows to the rest , and to yourself that you are at work. Thus when your family realises that you are in your business suit they know that you are at work and must not be approached for such household tasks as unclogging the sink , helping with your offsprings homework , getting the cat down from a tree or cleaning the windows . You mustn’t be expected to do anything other than what you are dressed for. You are at work. It’s a simple idea but often overlooked.
Mobile working presents its own problems but lets make the assumption here that you are working on a computer as part of the operation of a Home Based Franchise, say or maybe just keeping up with the paperwork for your business.
Maybe you have taken up a Franchise For Sale business and have to do a bit of work on the move, or possibly your business requires that you travel a good bit on the train. If you are on the train another little trick is to take your earphones and something to play music with – an MP3 player or play some music on your laptop. Contrary to what the train companies would have you think , grizzling babies, roaring drunks, noisy teenagers and annoying businessman on their mobile phones are not an uncommon feature on the train these days and listening to a bit of music is definitely much more conducive to getting your work done than listening to what is going on around you.
Traditional business or Franchises are all going to have an aspect of mobile or home working as part of the business. Even if it’s just the accounts that need to be done by yourself (and that includes if you have taken up an accounting Franchise For Sale) . Mobile working presents it’s own set of problems unless your business is actually a man plus van type of owner operator business , possibly on of the many Franchises,
Another rather easy trick is to plan your meals. Simple and obvious but cooking your own lunch can be something of a timely exercise and time is everything. Unless food is part of your business then try and keep it simple and nourishing . It’s not as if there’s a canteen to go to and fill up on a subsidised basis. Your mealtimes and break times should be simple and efficient . The trick with managing something like a Home Based Franchise is to remember that you are not on holiday. You are at work and it’s just the location of office that has changed. The same goes for mobile working. If you need to work while you’re on the move then it’s vital to retain your concentration amidst a sea of distraction.
These are all vital rules that add up to a simple way of thinking to really getting your daily work done instead of just wondering where the day has gone and why you haven’t achieved anything. Again .
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July 14th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
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