1 Habit For a Thriving Home Office
By Steven Samblis and Debbie Rosemont
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About this ebook
1 Habit For a Thriving Home Office is filled with Habits that, when instilled, can heal and enhance your business, spirit, and family.
1 Habit For a Thriving Home Office is for anyone running a business at home, people who work for a company, and telecommute and for companies that are transitioning more of their employees to a work-from-home force.
The book can help you take the giant leap to exit the cubicle farm and take your life back while making more money, saving more money, and having an impact beyond your own life.
Look at these stats...
* The US alone would save over $650 billion by changing to Home Based Business or Telecommute work models.
* Oil consumption would be reduced by 280 million barrels a year.
* Greenhouse Gas Emissions would be reduced by the equivalent of 9 million cars a year.
Most people will save
* $1500.00 a year on gas.
* $3000 a year on lunch, dinner, and coffee
* $4-7k a year on child care.
* $1700 a year on wardrobe.
* Gain 12 weeks a year by not sitting in your car every day, in traffic going to and from the cubicle farm.
Steven Samblis
Steven Samblis is the creator of the 1 Habit book series.He is the founder of 1 Habit Press. Before creating Samblis Press, Steven had a meteoric career in business that saw him go from being ranked among the top 50 rookie stockbrokers at Dean Witter, to speaking before 250,000 people for The Investors Institute. He has spoken before congress on shareholder’s rights representing T Boone Pickens’ “United Shares Holders Association.”In 1989 he founded “The Reason For My Success”. which grew into one of the largest sellers of self-improvement programs in North America. The Company expanded into production where Steve collaborated with Chicken Soup for the Soul co-creator Mark Victor Hansen on the audio program The program, called “The Worlds Greatest Marketing Tools”.As a consultant, Steve created a new name brand for a struggling gym in Dover New Hampshire called Coastal Fitness. He then created a $9.95 a month business model which helped to turn the single gym into one of the most successful fitness franchises in North America, Planet Fitness. In November of 2015 Planet Fitness went public with a 1.6 billion dollar market valuation.For six years, before launching 1 Habit Press, Steve was the on-air host and Editor in chief for Cinema Buzz, a website and syndicated television show in North America and the UK. On the show, Steve has interviewed over 1000 of the biggest actors and directors in entertainment one on one on camera.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a pleasure to read Hab1t: For a Thriving Home Office. It was exactly what I needed to get through these recent challenging months.
Starting in March, 2020, I moved my office home in response to the COVID epidemic. I didn't give much strategic thought to how I would make my environment supportive of a home office. Frankly, I hoped that I would soon be back in my office at work enjoying the company of my colleagues.
Fast forward six months, and I'm still sitting at home working on my MacBook Air, snacking in the kitchen, and taking occasional walks to keep myself as healthy as possible. I was really pleased when Leona Thomas, a board member of the LGBT Community Center where I am director, reached out to tell me she was working on a chapter about how to build a powerful home office. She offered to drop me by a copy.
When I received the book, and after we had taking a physically-distanced selfie on my stoop, I dove into the book and found how helpful it would be in developing new habits to support my at-home work office.
I found the introduction particularly helpful, with 30 concrete suggestions for thriving in a home office. Many of these suggestions have become staples in my efforts to build a sustainable home office- including asking for support, keeping a journal, and drinking lots of water (luckily water and iced tea are always just an arms-length away from me.)
Each chapter includes a suggested habit (to be pursued), as well as an un-habit (to be avoided.)
Here are habits I found helpful: 1) make a daily results list; 2) dress for office every day; 3) compartmentalize your day: separate work time from personal time; and many others. None of the suggestions are rocket science, but it is very handy to have them available in one book, to be revisited over time at your convenience. I keep my copy on my work desk and finger through it as a form of distraction when I want a new idea to revitalize day.
As I mentioned, the book also includes "un-habits" to be avoided-- including the importance of decluttering, avoiding too many breaks, and that most deadly of unhabits-- too much diversion into social media. If I could break that unhabit, I know I would be twice as productive.
I also want to express my appreciation for the diversity of voices in the book. It's worth checking out the list of bios at the end of the book to see the breadth of home offices described. I can give special shout out to contributor number 50, Leona Thomas, who is has been the head of strategic planning at my organization for eight years. Her reminder of the importance of bringing fun and joy into the workspace-- including dancing, podcasts, and personal time-- were all valuable reminders. And her caution that we have to learn not always to say "yes" to requests was very valuable for this people pleaser.
Again, I recommend placing this book on your work desk so that, with serendipity, you can choose random chapters for inspiration. That inspiration gives me hope that even if my COVID-related home office continues for months to come, that I'll have this reference to inspire me through the days.
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1 Habit For a Thriving Home Office - Steven Samblis
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Compartmentalize Your Day; Separate Work Time From Personal Time - Debbie Rosemont
Why: It is tempting and easy when you work from home for work to bleed into your personal life and vice versa. While nice to have the flexibility to start a load of laundry in the middle of a workday (a luxury you don't have when working in a traditional office), it is also easy to get distracted by personal tasks and not accomplish priority work during the workday.
Conversely, since the office
is just down the hall from the bedroom or kitchen, it can be easy and sometimes tempting to work around the clock. After all, the work (and office) is always there.
Primarily compartmentalizing work into the workday and personal tasks into off-work hours helps create more focus and better results in both areas of your life.
To compartmentalize, establish a daily plan and adhere to it with as much consistency as possible. Have a start and end time to your workday. Work in the same place in your home each day; ideally, a dedicated home office, but that's not always possible. As long as it is a place that you can work consistently, clear of clutter and distraction, the space can signal your mind that it's time to focus on work (i.e., when I sit in this chair, I work). You can even signal the transition to work by getting dressed for work or with an accessory or particular clothing item, donning a work hat
or work scarf
for the workday.
Block time on your calendar for the different types of work you perform, meetings and appointments, and priority work. Do the same for your personal commitments. Honor those times and stick to your schedule as much as possible. Planning and prioritizing your next day as you wrap up the current one means when you enter the office the next morning, you're ready to hit the ground running and can focus on your most important work.
Build a transition into your daily structure. Just as you would during a commute to or from work, have some transition time
to ease into your workday or back into your home life. For example, five or ten minutes of transition time at the end of your workday can help with compartmentalization. Activities, like listening to a particular song, checking personal email or social media for fun, or checking in with your family, can help with the transition from work to personal time.
Compartmentalization can help you to thrive as you work from your home office and live your best life.
The Un-Habit: Stop Procrastinating
Why: We procrastinate for any number of reasons and in a variety of ways. In fact, I teach a workshop titled What Are You Waiting For?
that details ten top reasons people procrastinate (and what to do about it).
Some of us are expert procrastinators. We get very creative and get lots of busy (but not productive) work
done to avoid priority work.
When you work from a home office, it can be tempting to make many trips to the kitchen to get another snack, to the laundry room to fold a load, to the mailbox to check the mail, to the cupboard to organize your linens, or to our email inbox (though we were just there a minute ago) to see if any new email has come in, all to avoid priority work.
While it is nice that we CAN do personal tasks in the middle of the workday, compartmentalization leads to greater productivity. We need to be thoughtful not to use personal tasks or low priority work as distractions or excuses to procrastinate.
Fight procrastination by identifying your highest priority or the number one task that when accomplished, would make the biggest impact on your work, your clients, or your goals. Do that work first thing in your workday.
Author and Speaker Brian Tracy calls this concept Eat a Frog for Breakfast.
His idea is that if someone held a frog in front of you (representing the highest priority, and possibly the toughest thing you'll need to do all day), and told you that you had to eat it at some point that day, wouldn't you rather get it down for breakfast than have to stare at it all day, with dread and anticipation, eventually having to eat it anyway?
Doing the hardest task or most significant work first thing in the day builds momentum and means that you are less likely to get lost or distracted by other things. It ensures you work proactively instead of just re-actively (i.e., by starting your work in your email inbox and then looking up at the clock at 5:00 realizing you didn't get to anything but responding to email done from your list).
Stop procrastinating by identifying your highest priority every day and then completing it before anything else (distraction, avoidance tasks, or reactivity) gets in your way. Refill your coffee cup or check email AFTER you accomplish your highest priority, as a break before engaging in your next best work.
Fight procrastination to increase your productivity and thrive in your home office!
Debbie RosemontAbout Debbie: Debbie Rosemont, Certified Professional Organizer and Productivity Consultant, has run her company, Simply Placed, from her thriving home office since 2003. Simply Placed helps clients increase productivity, maximize efficiency, and bring balance and control into their work and lives. Simply Placed associates work with individuals and businesses to create effective organizational systems, clear clutter, successfully manage time, focus on priorities, and achieve goals. They help people work smarter, not harder, to increase their bottom line and peace of mind through consulting, organizing sessions, group training, and It's About Time, a virtual productivity membership program.
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Prepare For Tomorrow’s Success Tonight - Steven Samblis
Why: When working from home, you need to be organized, or else you will lose the divide between home and work life. This Habit will help you to organize and give you peace of mind at night to enjoy your home life.
This Habit is also very fast to instill but will result in a substantial positive impact on your life.
I learned this Habit when I was a brand new stockbroker.
Here is how it works...
Every night before you go home, map out your next day. If you have clients or prospects you will want to call tomorrow, make a list with their names and numbers. If you have a trade ticket that you need to place in the morning, write it out the night before. No matter what it is you are doing tomorrow, there is an opportunity to prepare the night before. It is even a great idea to set out clothes for the next day.
Make this the evening Habit that you do in a couple of parts. When you finish your workday, take a moment to plan tomorrow's workday. This lets you close out each workday with a calm, organized spirit.
When you are ready to retire for the evening, take a moment and plan out your wardrobe for the morning.
Doing these things puts you at peace and lets you even get a better night's sleep. This simple 1 Habit can be a massive game-changer in your life.
The Un-Habit: Stop Listening to Your Well-Meaning Friends
Why: When you work from home, you will probably interact more with family and friends than business associates. This can be good and bad, depending on who those people are.
This is a Habit that was given to me by Queen Latifa, while I was interviewing her and Dolly Parton together for a movie called Joyful Noise.
I have interviewed over 1000 of the top actors in the world on camera for a show called Cinema Buzz. One day I realized that I was sitting across from the most successful people on the planet, why not tap into that and learn more from them than just who they played in their movies.
As I sat across from Queen and Dolly, I asked them... " You are two of the most successful women in not just Hollywood, but in business in general. I have two daughters. What would you tell them is the key to your