Beautify your workspace to enhance your productivity

Home Office by Bench Accounting

Below are the guidelines to make sure you stay meaningful even when you are hours into hitting keyboard and pushing content. Excessive coding / design / writing / painting becomes dull at some point. It is a myth “you can not produce good content when you are hours down into creating one” — totally WRONG !

You can publish highest quality content — even after hours of hard work — if you lift the ambience of your space, fix your posture a little and declutter your surroundings.

This is a broader view but to be precise read below.

1 — Do not lose important things

As you sit longer, weird things start happening with your focus. Pomodoro recommends we take a 15 to 20 minutes break after 4 sessions of 25 minutes. That means, we get up, move around, make coffee and slide it down.

All these things related to moving around requires availability of things. If you can get up, move easily and find the coffee at the same place you left yesterday, that means you have a rather better work space.

For me it was a Problem; Losing things that I placed very carefully around my work desk. Over period, I realised, it is a distraction that leads to frustration. So.. I try to never lose my stuff for that 15 to 20 minutes pomodoro break.

2 — Create space for your arms, elbows and bums

Sitting posture is an important factor to protect you from back pain, distractions and wet eyes. Great sitting posture is "Great". But how exactly do we have the greatness while sitting laser focused on our black screen? Let’s find out !

How to sit on your desk — Photo drawn by me 😁

Keep your elbows just around the corner of the desk. That you do not move them freely. Moving elbows means your hands are moving un-necessarily too much. Let your hands do the work. While protecting any budge on your elbows.

The rest of the arm needs clean space. So make sure you keep your desk clean, keyboard cleaner, cosier and feel-good texture. You only have a keyboard and a mouse on your desk. Longer hours of work demand you give them due attention. These items are important elements. While you are at your work — you simply can’t let anything else touch these things. No glass of water, no tissue paper, no white paper and no pencil. Keep the clutter away from your keyboard and mouse.

The last important is the choice of chair that keeps your bums at their rightful place. You can not afford a hard bottom chair, or a straight bench, or any thing too cozy. Work time is meant to be purely related to Work. Keep your bums at good height that you can keep your elbows pinned to your desk corner and your keyboard is now well in your reach.

Keep your table low enough that you can comfortably move your arms around over it. Do not lower it too much, that your elbows fail to touch the table. Find the mid spot to make sure you do not get tired feeling uncomfortable.

3 — Remove clutter

I believe good things happen in home office. Not the work office or a co-working space office. If your home office, looks and feels great you really do not feel a need to go somewhere else and create things. Keep your home office fun. Because, this is your home, the awesome place to feel good.

Find minimalistic furniture, try to lay wood on floor, that your feet rubbing against it makes you feel good. Keep warm lights near the desk but out of reach of your eyes. Too much warmth, slowly start hurting your eyes. Hang a big size TV, if you can afford. The office chair should be able to serve multiple purposes.

You should be able to work on your desk sitting here.

A slight revolve should let you watch NETFLIX.

And another turn should let your discuss ideas — with mates sitting back on your sofas.

This is your office chair. It is meant to reflect the kind of destination you are aiming at (everyday of your life). After a hard day at work, nice home-office will make you feel good. You will be attracted towards your creative work space. Not feel dull and can easily beat procrastination.

Conclusion

I love Life related words. To be honest, it all comes down to good mood, positive thoughts and meaningful smiles.

All good people, slowly grow the habit of making their work spaces, their homes, their galleries, lounges and lawns — meaningful. It does not take ample money to declutter our life. Remove excessive noise, spice and gossip. It only needs discipline.

If you want to make sure you stay productive, on track, your customers love your work and you manage to work in a repeated state of flow, embrace discipline.

You will be becoming a professional in what you are doing, in a matter of days instead of months.