A TOOL FOR REMOTE WORK
Although freelance writers have dedicated time and energy to work remotely from the confines of their homes or other remote non - office related Environments, almost everyone in different part of the world is challenged with situations in a time of COVID 19 pandemic. This has raised serious concerns and setbacks in the world's social management and economic structure. Meanwhile, Infrastructures are being closed with many events cancelled as a result of the crisis. But ever since Jobs have been affected, more people are now actively choosing to work from home in other to perhaps minimize boredom or majorly to keep the financial system ongoing.
Working remotely revolves around some of our personal choices and influences or contradicts our expectations.
Time spent on working from home reflects on our personal habits and decision making process. At some point in time it appears easy to feel that it is simple to work remotely from your home desk. And get things done at your own free will, but contrary to our expectations, there are certain challenges that we must overcome to get the ball rolling. Because as convenient as it seems, you really have less control over yourself. As without proper discipline and execution of principled strategies, you may not do the things that you say you want to do. That is why it is essential for us to open up on discussions about familiar habits and work styles. These relates to when and how much time we dedicate to our work on daily basis? How can we gather resources to schedule our work tasks for maximum productivity? And most importantly how can we focus on our work process in the midst of distractions from social needs and attractions of the mind?
Principles of executing remote work
Work falls apart when the right systems are not well organised. It is vital to have a clear understanding about working remotely as based on its expected task requirements and operating processes so as to avoid personal distrust and loss of self-interest. Therefore, the following principles will prevent remote work from going apart and failing immensely.
List of the follow principles are essential to setup a working system and stay organized. You have to:
1. Clearly state what you want to accomplish from your remote freelance activity and the steps that are essential to meet those goals.
2. As we become our own managers, it’s important to develop a continuous system of execution by implementing appropriate habits that keeps us focused on our work task essentials and avoid distractions from mind stimulating pleasures of the moment.
3. Keep tract of tasks and monitor projects ranging from assignments, to do list and work flows.
4. Network constantly by connecting with other clients, writers, readers and by joining freelance organizations where you can communicate and exchange ideas or information either through offline modes (e.g. Scheduled Meetings) or by phones and online internet technologies.
5. Get connected and become accessible from anywhere using effective communication tools with your clients and collaborators through emails, instant messengers and conference video chat platforms.
6. Don’t forget that your human nature has its own requirements which includes: Self-care, healthy eating, exercise, play, rest, sleep and many more. Even though you have to work on your desk, is vital to also listen and pay attention to your body when the need arises. Especially through breaks and out of work times because If you allow yourself to fall sick, then the work will not be executed by you until you are healthy.
Idealist can explore a broad range of information a writers world with lots of prospects. However, in this trying times of Covid – 19 escalations on the worlds environment where many have resulted to staying at home, isolating and quarantining under different conditions, Boundaries have had to be created. These measures are meant to contain the Virus spread and create some sort of freedom. Moreover, initial freedom as of this moment can be in the form of creative writing and ideas to make the world a better place. Finally writing remotely from home or any other locations can help to minimize personal boredom and keep the mind active in a way that adds value and money to your financial wallet.
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