Tips to stay productive (and off my stupid phone) when WFH?

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Honestly I just be doing work and play on my phone, stuff gets done regardless 🤐

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I communicate with others about what I’m doing to create some level of self-accountability and put my phone in my briefcase

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Pomodoro method!

Basically you work in bursts of 25 minutes, then take a break for 5 minutes. Rinse and repeat - occasionally throwing in a 10-25 minute break as needed.

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Love the Planted app! If you “plant a tree” for a certain amount of time and you exit out of the app, your tree dies. If you don’t, it goes into your forest. If you pick up your phone and try to do something outside of the app, it asks you if you want to kill your tree. Turns out, you can get very invested in growing virtual trees 🤷🏻‍♀️ It also tells you how many minutes you’ve been productive that day which is great. Just started to use it last week because all of my other tricks and tips weren’t working.

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Edit: it’s actually called Forest. Whoops!

Use the reward system. Complete small task or portion of task, can look at phone for xyz minutes. Repeat.

Following. The longer this WFH era goes the more easily distracted I get

I have the same schedule as if I am going to work. Up early and ready at 8am and work until 5pm with scheduled breaks for lunch etc.

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