How to boost your productivity automatically Part 2

#2 - Have a Professional Space

Make it dedicated, too, if possible. Meaning, it's a place where you just work. Even if you have a small house or an apartment, figure out a way to have a corner where all you do is work. If you relax on your laptop, stop. Make it your work tool and get an iPad instead for watching Youtube videos, reading articles, and whatnot.

By professional I mean that you should only keep work related stuff in your field of vision as much as possible. If you make it happen, you'll find your ability to focus grows exponentially. The reason why this works is we only have a very limited amount of working memory available to us at any given time, and if it's constantly flooded with clues to stuff that's not relevant to what you're trying to do, you're going to have trouble focusing.

#3 - Know, At All Times, What You Should Be Doing

The best way to start the day is to hit the ground running with a clear action plan.

The trick is to create it the night before. Then, when you wake up and start the day, you don't have to wonder, and you don't have to decide anything. Forget about email for the first couple of hours of the day. Just blast through that to do list. And when you're done with at least 2 of your most important things, then you can pause and look at the email, and make sure you haven't missed anything.

You should also prioritize. For example, if you have a day job and are building a side business, you could decide that the first couple of hours of every work day belong to you. During those 2 hours every day, you work hard on things that will move the needle in your own business. Then, you go to work - whatever that means in this day and age, maybe you just log in to work and stay in the same place. But that's beside the point. When you work in your day job, you do it with confidence and peace... because you've already invested 2 hours into building your own business.

Conclusion

While working from home isn't all it's cracked up to be, there are quite a few things you can do starting tomorrow that will make you more productive and happy.

And, if you do this right, it will also let you work fewer hours - meaning, you could get back to normal sooner.