Difficulty: 1
How-To: Set up a spot in your calendar 10 minutes before every new hour. Stand up, take a break, enjoy yourself for a few.
Remote work can be awesome.
It can also be super difficult.
Here are 40 habits to help you crush working from home:
Difficulty: 1
How-To: Set up a spot in your calendar 10 minutes before every new hour. Stand up, take a break, enjoy yourself for a few.
Difficulty: 1
How-To: In a meeting or taking a break, you need to move those joints. Stretch out, stand up, do jumping jacks, go jousting, whatever.
Difficulty: 1
How-To: I know it's cliche, but this makes a difference. At the very least put on some gym shorts.
Difficulty: 1
How-To: Paging Captain Obvious: your body needs sunlight. Take a walk or go grab lunch. This will energize you more than you think.
Difficulty: 1
How-To: Yes, that Dominos looks delicious. No, it doesn't belong at your desk while you Zoom with your team. Separate your living space from your work space if possible.
Difficulty: 1
How-To: You can use a guided app for this, or just close your eyes and breath at the top of every hour. Take a moment to reset your mind and dive back into the next task.
How-To: This is more for your sanity than your productivity. You'll probably do a lot of repetitive tasks when working from home. Set aside time to learn about something that interests you. Treat yourself and grow in the process.
Difficulty: 1
How-To: Doesn't matter if this is Taylor Swift, Binaural Beats, or the Phineas and Ferb soundtrack: listen to music that energizes you (especially at the beginning of a new task.)
Difficulty: 2
How-To: You'd be shocked how many times you subconsciously check Twitter per day. Set limits on when and how you can browse certain sites. I use Opal for this, but there are tons of other options.
Difficulty: 2
How-To: We don't take enough full days off from work. If you can manage to take a day off per month just to recharge, you'll be able to do effective work much more consistently over time.
How-To: Figure out when you are most energized during the day. Schedule your biggest and most important tasks for that time. Do the same for your least energetic times of day. Schedule repetitive work for these times.
Difficulty: 2
How-To: Set a north star for each day that clearly tells you "If I accomplish X, today will be a good day." Meet that standard daily. Do more if you can, do the minimum if you can't do more.
Difficulty: 2
How-To: This will improve your communication. Zooms and Looms will sound better, look better, and make you feel a little better about hopping on calls all day. This also dramatically improves the quality of your recordings.
Difficulty: 2
How-To: Don't just schedule meetings. Schedule your tasks. If you have to write a blog today, create a task on your calendar and block out the time you need. For best results, don't deviate from the time you set.
Difficulty: 2
How-To: Give yourself time to catch up with...you. Ask what went well last week. Ask what was tough last week. Assess your performance, and make goals for the coming few days. Take notes and keep track of your progress.
Difficulty: 2
How-To: It's not enough to have a to-do list. You have to prioritize the tasks and schedule them accordingly. Do your big tasks in high-energy windows. Make sure you can focus on only that task during that time.
Difficulty: 2
How-To: What you can't touch or see can't distract you (at least as easliy.) Lock your phone away somewhere outside arm's reach. You have enough distractions at home, you don't need one more.
Difficulty: 3
How-To: Focal points are the tasks you need to accomplish this week that tie directly to your core goals.
How-To: These goals may carry over from the past week, and that's OK. What are the 3-5 most important things you can do this week? If nothing else got done but these, you would still feel accomplished. Tie all work back to these goals.
Difficulty: 3
How-To: What are the main projects you know you have to tackle this week? Make sure they tie directly into your core goals for the week. If they don't they shouldn't be included as priority projects.
Difficulty: 3
How-To: Reverse engineer your main projects to find out the tasks that are required to complete them. Plan out a specific time on your calendar to complete each task.
Difficulty: 3
How-To: The actual time doesn't matter. The consistency matters a lot. Wake up at X, start work at Y, and end the day at Z. Every single day.
Difficulty: 3
How-To: Meetings can quickly add up and add stress. Opt to record your thoughts or needs in a Loom video instead. Share the video with whoever needs it. Add to the discussion in Slack instead of Zoom.
Difficulty: 3
How-To: Aim to have at least 2 hours of uninterrupted focus tiem daily. If meetings try to make their way on your agenda during these times, decline them. This time is crucial and it's easy to lose it.
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Viruses and other pathogens are often studied as stand-alone entities, despite that, in nature, they mostly live in multispecies associations called biofilms—both externally and within the host.
https://t.co/FBfXhUrH5d
Microorganisms in biofilms are enclosed by an extracellular matrix that confers protection and improves survival. Previous studies have shown that viruses can secondarily colonize preexisting biofilms, and viral biofilms have also been described.
...we raise the perspective that CoVs can persistently infect bats due to their association with biofilm structures. This phenomenon potentially provides an optimal environment for nonpathogenic & well-adapted viruses to interact with the host, as well as for viral recombination.
Biofilms can also enhance virion viability in extracellular environments, such as on fomites and in aquatic sediments, allowing viral persistence and dissemination.
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