How to Perfect Your Home Office
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Hey everyone. Thanks for stopping by. My name is Nick Fowler.
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And today we're going to be going over how to perfect your home office.
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So it's no secret that more people are working from home than ever before.
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And according to that research center you saw in the article,
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59% of people are choosing to become teleworkers in 2022.
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Um, and this is for many reasons, right?
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Many benefits,
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including commutes home work balance and a lot of people are even more productive.
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Um,
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a 2020 survey conducted by the Chicago
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Booth and Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology was
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also in the article found that 40% of workers were more productive from home.
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So let's get into it. What's one of the first ways to protect your home office?
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Well, number one is gonna be scheduling apps.
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Now, I'm biased because I work with calendar dot com,
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but really any scheduling app is, is key.
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Um, and one of the main keys of this is time blocking, right?
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So blocking your time and make sure that
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you're really doing what you're supposed to be doing
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right?
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If you have the idea that you're just going to
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go through your day and just know what you're doing,
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you're kind of kidding yourself.
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Right?
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So really set, you know,
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9 to 10 doing this and 11 doing this block off your counter to other meetings if you
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need to and just really blocking your time to
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make sure you're becoming as time efficient as possible
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and schedule you guys help with that, right?
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That's one of the main benefits of the scheduling apps story.
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You can choose when people can sign up on your calendar.
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Um and when they cannot with these calendar
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apps are scheduling apps um some are free,
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most of them have a free version.
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If anything,
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they're a freemium model and some have advanced features that
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do come with a cost but also provide a lot more
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robust functionality.
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Number two, ergonomic furniture.
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This one's kind of easy to skip right something you
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don't really necessarily think of right from the beginning,
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but this does help with your posture, which does help you become more productive?
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Probably ask yourself well how does that really happen with better posture?
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You're gonna have less back pain unless back
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pain is gonna help you become more productive.
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One of the best pieces of furniture you can do for this is the standing desk, right,
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and that we can go up and down with comfort.
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You know, if you've been slashing for a while you might stand up for an hour,
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get your blood circulating all the
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time
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and things like that.
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A lot of those things are really gonna help you with your posture,
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back pain and overall will help your productivity.
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So number three, office lighting,
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natural light or artificial light can really help you become more productive.
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This is kind of another one that you might not necessarily think
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right off the bat as something that's gonna really help your productivity.
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Um but really the biggest one here is mood, right?
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Like natural sunlight or artificial light is really going to help your
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mood and having a good mood really does boost your productivity.
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Another reason that it really can help your productivity
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is it's going to help with your eye strain,
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right?
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You're in bad lighting or in a dark room or too bright room and got a bad glare,
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you're gonna run into ice cream, get a headache, not gonna be as much as productive.
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Um kind of the last thing you want to do is make
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sure that that's what you do have doesn't have a glare.
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Right? So one of the best things that I would consider doing is get a lamp shade
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number four, smart connectivity let technology be your friend.
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Right, um smart TVs and monitors now really do help things help you multitask,
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you have several things going on each screen at one time,
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um The screens can talk to each other if they have smart tv technology,
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your smart monitor technology, things like that.
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One of the most common ones is earbuds, right?
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Earbuds is a great piece of technology that can help you stay connected and focused.
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Um earbuds are for one for noise control and two so that you can just have
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hands free communication um to be able to
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multitask and be as productive as possible.
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Sports speakers are kind of a newer and big thing has taken over,
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Right and if you get one of these speakers
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they can really act as your personal assistant.
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Um Right.
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They can really help control things, you can have them call of the devices,
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call upon devices, do things for you,
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make calls um and have one central hub that's controlling all of your other devices.
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Okay. Number five improve air quality.
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Uh This is a really big one for me, that was that you know,
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it's something I really didn't think about first and then the more I read about it,
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the more it really does make sense, right?
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I mean bad air quality can make you mean one,
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it can make you sick um and then obviously being sick is going to be less productive.
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You can also just make you feel just donkey, right?
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Even if overall sick, you might not realize it, but you are feeling worse.
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So how do you prevent this?
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And a lot of the main ways to make sure you have good ventilation right?
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Um and in your home office make sure that your furniture is not blocking any events or
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returns and that way the air is circulating
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cleanly efficiently and you'll be good to go.
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Um And the last thing that you can really
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do to make sure that you're doing this correctly,
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just get your unit service,
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get your age back and furnace and furnace
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um inspected regularly what it needs to be and
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just make sure you're changing out your filters and
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all that good stuff to make sure everything's running
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top notch
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alright.
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Number six and kind of you know just overall right, just make the room flow,
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organize your space so that it makes sense right?
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And I'm not a very organized person,
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something that I really have to work on um is the organization to
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make sure I missed breakfast possible and my office space was no exception,
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right?
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I kind of just had stuff in there willy nilly um as long as
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I thought I had my desk and chairs and printer and all that stuff,
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as long as it was somewhere in the office, I was like that works right,
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but really it makes a big difference if you just take
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the time to make your office flow and make sense,
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make sure that if you do or you're printing things all the time,
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they don't have to get up from your desk every single time to get things and come back,
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it sounds kind of tedious and not a big deal
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but really things like that really do start to have a
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start to have a negative effect on your productivity,
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so set your room up or your office up to really make sense, make things flow together,
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work together
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um and everything will really go a lot, a lot smoother,
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so overall kind of the bottom line, right?
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It just don't make your home office an afterthought, you know,
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it's kind of can be easy to not put that much time into it
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as you would as like a regular office and like an office building,
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but you are working there right, this is your your office now,
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if you're if you're working from home so you need to
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put as much time in creating that space as you would
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from a regular home office um It's important, it's important for productivity,
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especially at home for me because you know you have a lot more distractions at home,
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so it really is even more important I think to have
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your home office be as productive as possible and just set up properly
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and and going over all the things that we just went over.
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So really,
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I mean put in some initial time and effort and
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maximizing the efficiency of the space and it will pay off
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um so that kind of wraps it up guys,
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I really appreciate you stopping by and reading
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the article and checking out the video.
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Um We'll see you soon have it going guys