Work From Home: Taking Breaks

Video Transcript

"When you're working from a home office and you want to be productive, it's important to remember that taking breaks is a part of being productive. If you try and sit down at a computer or wherever you work from in your home office, for most of us it's at our computer. You'll find that, it's probably a lot of you have already experienced, and those of you that are looking to work at a home office, will experience. I mean there's times where you can really get in the zone and flow and you're working and you know, you'll forget to eat. You'll forget to take care of yourself and that can work short term but it's not a good long term strategy for working from a home office. So you need to give yourself breaks and you need to make sure that you are eating regularly, that you are eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and when you're working from a typical office environment it's almost easier to take care of yourself that way. Because a lot of times you'll have scheduled breaks or you'll go to the break room or you know, you have a definitely lunch hour or you go out and eat. Sometimes at home, without that structured in you just kind of forget about it and you work, work, work. So make sure that at your work from home office that you take care of yourself, that if you've been working straight for a half hour an hour, make sure you get up and do something and stretch and do something enjoyable for a few minutes and give your mind a rest from what you're doing. Make sure you eat your meals and all that. So those are the main things you want to watch out for is to not work yourself to death."