Tips for circular working from home
Finishing a meeting while on the phone while your toddler climbs the curtains: it is not always easy to work from home with children. How do you make sure that working from home is as pleasant as possible for yourself? We have listed a number of tips that made us very happy!
1. Make a plan!
The importance of good planning cannot be underestimated! This is especially important because when working from home, you have no environmental pressure to perform. After all, you have no impressions of colleagues who are pretending to be doing a lot of work. Your office buddies are now suddenly the comfortable corner sofa, the beer fridge, the hammock and the slightly too fat ginger tomcat. Try to focus then.
By making a good plan you can prevent a lot of misery. By setting strict to-do's and deadlines you stay in control and you don't get bogged down in aimless stress without an overview. Make a resolution to keep structured working hours, but also make sure that you reward yourself by taking it easy in your non-working time. Give that hangover a pat on the head.
2. Provide a good working environment
It is important to make it as pleasant as possible for yourself so that you are not distracted! After all, a good office is half the battle. We like to have a second screen ourselves! Fortunately, one of our colleagues was kind enough to drive by with a van to bring the computer screens from the office to our home offices.
It is also important that you have a sitting position; a comfortable desk chair that you can adjust in height helps with this. Another big tip is a laptop stand; it ensures that the screen of your laptop is just a little higher so that you do not get neck strain. Note: Only use in combination with an external keyboard!
3. Give the children their own place!
If you are at home all day, it can quickly feel claustrophobic. You are on top of each other all day, and tensions can sometimes run high! It is therefore important to ensure that everyone has their own place to isolate themselves. Preferably before the bomb explodes of course!
Set up a corner for your child so that this is his/her 'area' for a while, with everything a child can enjoy. Her favorite Lego castle, his favorite action figure: everything is possible and allowed!
To make this spot even more special, you can also get a cardboard playhouse; this way your child can close themselves off a little more and decorate their own little house!
4. Eat healthy!
Maybe we suddenly sound like your mother, but not entirely unimportant: Eat enough vitamins! Especially in these times it is important to pay attention to your diet. A good meal can make or break your day or your mood, and mean the difference between a day full of arguments or a day full of fun.
So be careful not to eat too much fat and sugar, eat an orange or kiwi and put that bottle of wine aside for a while. It might take some getting used to at first, but the quarantine will be better for it, really!
For flatulent reasons we do not recommend eating Mexican bean dishes.
5. Do special things together
Whole days at home can get pretty monotonous. So make it more fun by going on an adventure together in your own home! Here are some tips from the KarTent editors: Go on a bear hunt in the neighborhood, draw a work of art on the sidewalk with sustainable sidewalk chalk or start a vegetable garden on the windowsill.
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