WFH

With the nation now on lockdown for the next two weeks, I've seen more than one person post on social media that they're at home, and setting up their office away from the office. As an IT worker, I've been fortunate to have the option to work from home for about 15 years now, so I offer you this advice

• Follow your normal morning routine - get up at the same time, wash, brush your teeth, have breakfast. If you don't, having to get back into the routine when you go back to work is nigh on torturous
• If you normally have a long commute, and hence now have more time in the morning, before your normal start time, go for a walk. Exercise is important (I'll come back to that one)
• You want to be comfortable, but not relaxed. If you don't have an office chair at home, use a kitchen chair. 
• Do not sit in your favourite seat. You will not be able to work in the same place where you relax, and (more importantly) when you finish for the day, you will not be able to relax if it is in the same place where you work
• Don't turn on the TV - Netfix/Amazon Prime/YouTube are out. You might not be in the office, but you are at work. TV is a distraction you don't need. You wouldn't watch these at your desk, you're not going to watch them here
• The radio, podcasts, and music, are fine, but only if you listen to them at work - see above.
• Take lunch at the same time, and for the same length of time. 
• If you normally go for a walk at lunch, go for a walk now
• Leave the house at the end of the day. You need that disconnect between "where I work" and "where I live". If you do yoga, or pilates, do it at home, but try to do it in a different room to your office

If you succeed in doing all these, be sure to tell me how