As an online business owner who can work from anywhere, how to maximize your work from home productivity will always be a top priority to you.

This is because you need to stay sharp and productive enough to drive your business just as you would have done if you were working from an office somewhere downtown. But the truth remains that working from home is part of running a business might be the hardest truth that nobody talks about… indeed, productivity at home is hard as hell.

One of the things that make working from home hard for online business owners is the excess freedom that working from home provides, which can cost a lot in productivity and lost time in doing things that are not related to your business.

In this article, I will be sharing with you some tips that will help your wfh productivity.

Starting Your  Day with a Morning Routine Improves your Work From Home Productivity.

The first step towards making the best use of your day and enhancing your productivity is to seize the morning with a routine that sets the tone and intention for the day.

This should be something solid that that gets your mind together such as meditation, gratitude journaling and prayer.

Then put your thoughts into activating your senses by reading and goal setting.

Finally, you activate your body through exercising and other wellness practices.

When you begin your day this way, it becomes easy for you to take charge all day while focusing on the things that truly matter to you.

Don’t be in a hurry to jump online first thing in the morning.

Research has proven that all the successful men on earth have a morning routine. And every religion in the world proves this to be very important through their practices.

So to make sure that your day goes well and take on colour, develop a routine that works for you.

it will help you stay more focused and productive throughout the day.

And of course, jumping on twitter or WhatsApp first thing isn’t part of a good morning routine…I’m just saying.

Create a Work from Home Productivity Schedule You can Stick with.

One of the most dangerous things about work from home is that you have excess freedom to enjoy the comfort of your home, family, pets and everything else that you enjoy.

And naturally, the human body doesn’t really like to work.

So, one sure-fire way of enjoying the freedom of having this thing around you while still getting work done is to develop a work schedule and the discipline to make it work for you.

As a work from home entrepreneur who wants to improve his productivity, developing a work schedule and sticking to it makes a lot of difference

When you don’t have a schedule to work with, nothing guides your productivity and if you have one but lack the discipline to stick with it, you still don’t get the desired result.

 It then becomes extremely important to build in a disciplined focus into your work time to make your work from home experience is a productive one.

Make Your Working Hours Fun too

It can not be all work and no play as that makes you a dull entrepreneur.

Our concentration time per chunk (CTPC) is limited. Some researchers suggest 60 minutes chunk time. 

This means that trying to work all day without breaks at reasonable intervals to help you stretch will prove to be counter-productive with time.

This should also mean that work has when it starts and when it ends.

This is important because if your brain doesn’t know when work will come to an end, it begins to interpret work as a massive stressor and tries to shut down your body from doing anything that looks like work thereby costing you productivity at the end.

When fun or break time is somewhere around the corner, your brain can help you reach that corner so that it can have the much-desired fun.

For me, I batch my time and activities in 90 minutes work time and observe 30 minutes breaks in-between and that has always worked for me.

Or 45 minutes work time and 15 minutes break in-between.

Try to see what works for you and run with that but make sure that the break time is really fund and not another work.

A Unique and Dedicated Work Space Will Help Improve Your work from Home Productivity

Getting a workspace is of utmost importance

Stop working from your dining table, or your bed, those places have their functions and if you are observant, you would have noticed that you don’t produce much from them before you start wasting time.

The reason is simple, a bed is meant for sleep so when you are there, your brain activates your body to do what you have been doing on it all your life. So also, is your dining table.

To bypass this, set up a working room or a small corner in your house as your work from home productivity zone.

What eventually happens is that anytime you step into this corner, your body is naturally activated to work.

Another mistake you mustn’t make is to start desecrating this place with Netflix, chatting, twitter banters, Instagram scrolling, eating and all the things that are not work-related. 

If you do, it will lose its value and become a useless corner where you now go to waste time instead of work.

Let the social media and game stuff wait for your break time.

Then you can excuse yourself from your work space to indulge for the moment before you return to your working space.

Look Serious for Productivity Sake

I’m sure you have heard the “work in your Pyjamas” motto.  While that might sound cool, you don’t get any solid strong long hour work done wearing that.

 The truth is simple, pyjamas is meant for sleeping, so you won’t do a whole lot of interesting work in it.

My office is in my house and I dress up to work daily. And I learnt this from my mentor who learnt it from his own mentor.

All successful work from home people that I know agree that you have to bath, and dress up for work to convince yourself that it’s time to do something productive for the day even if you are doing it from home.

You don’t have to suit and tie up (though there is nothing wrong with this if you have to) to get yourself dressed up for work.

Just make sure that you look serious enough to get your work from home productivity juice flowing.

Build Boundaries Around your Productive times and Space.

One smart way to do this is to let everyone around to know that the fact that you are at home doesn’t make you available.

This is particularly important if you have kids or spouses who will be happy to jump on you and destroy your time since you are just a door away.

The importance of building boundaries can’t be overemphasized.

Your time must be respected by those around you just as you also respect your time by not stopping by the parlour unnecessarily to gist or catch a scene of your favorite Soap.

Let work time be work time and let playtime be playtime.

And when you do each, let no one or thing interfere…

Don’t be at work when you should be with family and don’t be with family when you should be at work.

A Good Night Routine Helps Your Work from Home Productivty the Next Day

This is as important as the morning routine because how you end your day determines how you will start the next one.

As a rule, you shouldn’t fall at sleep, you should go to sleep…They are not the same.

What that means is that you never should sleep off with Netflix playing on your phone.

That will make you to have a grumpy night which will prevent you from waking up and starting your day right.

Spend uninterrupted time with those you love, have a review of the day, then plan the next day before going to bed.

That’s way, your prime yourself for a better and sharp morning.

Final point…

These are some of the most effective ways in the world to improve productivity in a work from home situation, either as a regular experience or as a temporary one just as we have it now.

Go ahead and start implementing them. And when you fail, don’t give up, try again till it becomes part of your life.