Posts Tagged ‘home’

10 Hacks to Improve Your Home Office Productivity

If you work from home, the central part of your work life is the home office. For some, that means the kitchen table, but most of us assign a specific room to be the base of operations and (try to) do our work from there each day.

Given that we must take into consideration strategy before tactics, it stands to reason that we should make it a room… » Continue

April 25 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: creativity, focus, home, ideas, office, workspace | 19 comments»

How to Back-up Your Life

Too often people go through life with a tunnel vision approach of how they plan to go about their daily activities, long term goals and work related endeavors. Any well thought-out strategy is successful because the planners know that “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”.

Life is always tossing in the monkey wrench. You should never assume that what you plan today will… » Continue

January 17 2008 | By AJ | Tagged: backup, career, home, planning | 19 comments»

Leaving the McMansion for the Small Life

Natives to pastoral areas know what it looks like. What was once a pasture with cows now looks like a small village — only the homes are anything but small. These McMansions are often well over 4,000 square feet large with plenty of luxury amenities for the average sized family. Interestingly, these mega-homes may not be all the rage in our future suburban landscapes.

The Star Ledger… » Continue

November 26 2007 | By Mike | Tagged: family, home, house, living, small, space | 17 comments»

DIY Air Conditioner

The Homebrew AC by Geoff Milburn is a little bit of DIY genius for those battling a poor and hot summer. Some tubing, a fan and a garbage can is all it takes. Geoff’s work isn’t all that new anymore, but it’s worth the mention again this summer.

Homebrew AC - [GeoffMilburn]… » Continue

August 14 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: home, summer | 3 comments»

Should I Work From Home?

A lot people fantasize of the idea, but is it really a good idea for you to work from home? Are you thinking of starting a home business? Do you hate traffic?

No matter what the positives for working at home are, there are some negatives. Generally, it’s a personality thing and what sort of environment do you really work better in. Also, are you ready for that kind of… » Continue

July 19 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: home | 9 comments»

How to Organize Your Home

Organizing your home can be a daunting task when the piles are overflowing, the laundry is scattered, and the office is flooded in papers. Fortunately, there are systems and tools that you can use to organize every room in your house. Here are a few tips to get you started.

Everything has a home.

To keep your life organized and sane, you must assign a home for all of the… » Continue

May 15 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: drawer, home, organization | 9 comments»

How To Convince Your Boss To Let You Work From Home

In this day and age, with communication being to easy through mobile technologies, it makes sense to work out of the office.

If you are able to do your job from home, why can’t you? What is the benefit of traveling upwards of an hour each day, through stressful traffic, to enter the distraction-full environment that most offices are?

Tim Ferriss has written a book called The 4-Hour Work Week and… » Continue

April 23 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: holiday, home, homeoffice, workfromhome, working | 5 comments»

How Not To Take Work Home With You

The folks at Dumb Little Man read my mind when they got an email asking how to keep your work at work. I am a firm believer that work should stay at work and enter as little as possible into people’s personal lives.

Obviously this becomes quite hard if you work A LOT. Thankfully this little article focuses on just such workaholics. It’s a list based on personal experience with… » Continue

February 26 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: home, work/life-balance, workaholic | 3 comments»

Home decor design tips

Normal Room is a Web site that lets users submit images of various rooms in their homes. Normal Room has amassed a large collection of designs from countries around the world. I think this is really unique and great resource if you are thinking of redecorating, building a home, setting up your office or studio, or just looking for ideas on how to make your workspace more… » Continue

January 18 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: design, home, homeoffice, workspace | 10 comments»

Ask Readers: Working from Home Myths?

It comes to my attention of a blog post - Rob Sanheim talks about his friends’ misconceptions on his working from home style. Comments like:

Oh, you must watch your kids/pets/tv/chia pet all day, then, right?
You have less distractions.
You can work whenever you want.
You can save a ton on tax deductions!
OMG!! Working from home must be like heaven on earth

Some of you who work from home may yell - “No… » Continue

November 20 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: home, workspace, workstyle | 12 comments»

Working from Home Discussion

There is a lengthy discussion on working from home at Joel on Software forum. It looks like to me that many people has issues on working from home. They mention couple of problems:

Lack of motivation
Lack of human interactions
Lack of concentration
Lack of separation between work and personal life
Odd work hours

With those possible issues for working from home, do you want to avoid this option? No, because there are ways to help… » Continue

October 17 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: home, work | 1 comment»

20 free ways to save energy

What is the best way to make a difference in the world, and on the same time, keep your money in your wallet? Try to save energy - with little or no effort. ConsumerReports.org has hosted a summary called 20 free ways to save energy which provides a simple ways to save the world and your money by save energy. It has tips ranges in washing, cooking, driving… » Continue

September 25 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: energy, home, Lifehack | 4 comments»

Working Efficiently From Home

If you have realized your dream of being able to work from home, then you would have realized by now that it is not as easy as it seems. Whether you write for a living or have an Internet business or sell some specialty that you have expertise in, what you need is some space for yourself where you can pursue your home career.

A designated place for working is… » Continue

September 6 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: home, work | 10 comments»

6 Tips for Working at Home With Children

Working from home is great, you could have more opportunities to be with your family, you can save time to commute etc. it may become a bit tricky where your work and life are mashed together. Dane Carlson from Business Opportunities Weblog has sent me a post on his tips on create a better environment and situation for your work and your family:

Create an office separate from the main

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August 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: home, work | 8 comments»

Old school lifehack - Whiteboard in the kitchen

It’s definitely a old school type of lifehack. I am not sure how many people use this now - but a productivity item to have in the kitchen is a whiteboard. It’s a great media to share information with other members in the house. Here are some ideas: