i’m so curious – are you guys back at work yet? still work from home? do we know when (or if!) we are going back? let me know in the comments, or over on my instagram today … i’m so curious what everyone else is doing. target has us all working from home for the foreseeable future, so i’m back today with more work from home tips to help us all out, because the ability to work from home is not going anywhere anytime soon.
wear shoes
this one was so bizarre to me, but it really works. since it was cold when i started working from home in march, i wore slippers most of the time. i’ve since switched to real shoes because apparently if you wear shoes it tricks your brain into thinking you are at work. so far, so good!
dress the part
this one has turned out to be SO hard for me, so this entire week i’m challenging myself to wear what i would have worn to the office. heels included. the unintended silver lining of this is that joey is back with his outfit commentary, so we are resurrecting the @whatmyhusbandthinks instagram.
walk the walk
i started to mirror my daily patterns at work, including getting up at half an hour/hour intervals to take a quick five minute walk upstairs, to the mailbox, etc. it mirrors the walking from meeting to meeting i would have done in the office, and it’s a nice way to refresh my body and my brain.
go somewhere
i used to really dislike getting home and have to go-go-go, but now that i never leave my house, i find that it’s more fun to make plans at night. socially distant dinners, heading to the beach (socially distant *insert karen glare*), grabbing takeout — it’s all a little more fun now that i haven’t left the house. it also helps remind me that i’m not trapped and there is a world out there, however weird it feels right now.
have a life outside of work
trust me, having things to do that aren’t work make you better at work. i’ve been leaning into my hobbies [mostly creating things for the shop] and it’s so rejuvenating. i’m able to concentrate better at work knowing that there’s an end point and i have other things waiting for me. when this all started, i felt like i had to fill all of the cracks in my day with work. hobbies allow me to be better at my job by giving me focus and filling my brainspace with something else.
i’d love to know – what’s your work situ?