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Any advice on the last bit?
by paulbaumgart 16y ago
Any advice on the last bit?
- lovskogen 16y agoWork from home. Do communication with instant messaging and email (you can decide when to be available for input, limiting noise). Take a mental step back and look at what you are doing on a larger scale. I'm not good at this, but I think it would make the noise clearer, and easier to quiet.
- bad_user 16y agoI have a wife and a 7 months old son; and while I love them both very much, working from home is really hard because of all the distractions. Not to mention it gets really hard to separate home from work time. It also gets pretty boring (smelly too, since the incentive to take care of yourself decreases :)). I do work remotely, with flexible schedule and all that, but I have rented an office pretty close to my home. Just wanted to say: I don't know how other people can work from home.
- lovskogen 16y agoThen don't work from home when your son still is at home daytime. Not taking care of yourself and having a hard time separating work/home time goes hand in hand. Start early, put on real clothes. Work out tasks, then get cracking.
- shimon 16y agoDefend signal. If a meeting, email, or offhand discussion seems like noise, politely bow out. The biggest drain is assuming that these things all require your attention -- instead, take a break, figure out what merits your attention, and feel good about stepping back from everything that doesn't.