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Thursday 16 March, 2006
#How To Work At Home: Focus

Working from home isn't like working in an office. It's entirely possible, in a normal office day, to do absolutely no work at all, but for no one to notice, least of all you. Working at home is different, because you're become quite aware of what you should be doing, and consequenly aware of when you're not doing.

Focus is important, focussing on the work - what the work is, what you need to do to get it done, when it needs to be done by. I'll come back to this another time. If I cba (boom, boom).

Maintaining focus can be hard, especially when the work is difficult or boring, but you have to grit your teeth. Sometime's it can be useful to take a ten-second oil break, so long as that doesn't turn into spending all afternoon watching wrestling videos on YouTube.

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Stu said I found that I could get through a whole day in the office too without doing a stroke of work and without even realising it. The standardised temperature and lighting and constant background whirr that was the environment in Xerox in Welwyn Garden City's state-of-the-art building lulled one's brain into a state of complete switched-offness. The whole day could go by without you realising that any time had passed at all - and then it was time to go home. [added 20th Mar 2006]
Pete Ashton said While my office working experience isn't exactly huge I tend to be able to get a good hour's kip each day, often more. [added 20th Mar 2006]

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