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The number one reason men and women fail to succeed at working remotely is they fail to see the criticality of having good quality organisation and enduring self management.

I have been operating remotely for more than six years since I first discovered Quickbooks online an ‘on demand’ small business accounting software online system and was blown away by the fact that if you can do accounting on the net then why shouldn’t it be workable to perform other important types of work at a distance?

Whilst working remotely has substantial gains there are numerous traps that people easily fall into which convert into problems that cause reduced productivity and reduced morale. The most cited reason for decreases in productivity in remote workers is distraction and it is a verified and well known fact that it can take a employee up to 0.33 hours to return to their original productivity level after experiencing a distraction.

Studies also show that persons who are regularly experience distractions are more likely to be susceptible to decreased memory power and are prone to developing mental health problems in later life. We live in an over communicated era and it is essential that you know the problems this causes before you decide to work remotely. Whilst operating remotely you have to do everything possible to eradicate the probability of being distracted.

Here are my most important tips:

1, Get a habit, tell everyone about it and stick to it!

Good examples are a specific time of day when you read or compose and reply to mail and make or be available for telephone conversatiions. Before I began working remotely I used to get as many as hundreds of electronic mails in 24 hours. Now I think I am unfortunate if I get more than 5. To ‘restart’ my e-mail experience I altered my e-mail address and tenaciously took steps to look after the details being made known to anyone. I then made sure every party who I gave my e-mail address to, to use it wisely and sparingly. I also created an auto-responder that swiftly told anyone sending me mail my routine for attending to mail and if something should have my immediate consideration to mark it as ‘Urgent’.

2. Get rid of alerts.

Turn off every possible mechanism that can send you a perceptible alert. This includes portable and
ordinary handsets and types of alerts from e-mail such as display events, warning sounds, screen changes to your inbox folder and of course facing a window. Get a door on your office and put up a ‘do not disturb’ sign on it.

In ‘Remote Working Part 3 – Basic Toolkit’ I will reveal my favourite tools and software.

 

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