I’ve heard that the average office worker only works productively for 1.5 hours out of an 8 hour day. I think web workers (hopefully!) do much better than that. For us, there really is a vested interest in increasing our productivity, because how we manage our time is linked to how much money we can make.

I find myself at full speed ahead in the last 2 hours of the work day.

Maybe one thing you could do (which is what David Allen, creator of the productivity system “Getting Things Done” suggests) would be to make the interruptions of the baby acceptable and just a natural part of your day. Instead of thinking of them as interruptions, focus on the perk that you have a living, breathing built in feature in your workday that will force you take breaks throughout the day. The main benefit of these breaks is that you get to spend time bonding with your daughter :) . So, don’t fight it. I’ll do some research and see if I can come up with any more tips for work at home parents.

@Jurgen, thanks so much for the bonus tip! I know lots of folks love post-it notes, but I tend to go haywire with them and end up with post-its all over the computer, which sort of stresses me out. If you’re a more disciplined person than I am with the sticky notes ;), I can see how your method is very helpful.

@Matt608–yeah, it’s like we all know what to do, it’s just the hard part is actually doing the stuff! One thing that seems to work without fail is the relaxing part. Even if you’ve got a ton of work and are launching a new site, you need time to re-charge your brain so you can work in a focused manner. I’ve noticed that when I take time away from work that I actually look forward working. If we’re working all the time, then we don’t really get the chance to get excited about going to work.

@skyjuice–yes, for those of us who work online all day long, it can be kind of addictive! I have one friend with an internet business who told me that when he turns off his computer, he feels like his business disappears. We have a whole, full, busy life just online, that it’s hard to tear away from it. Plus there’s the fun of surfing the net, which is hard to resist. Yeah, definitely, if you went someplace where there was no internet and left your computer at home, you’d very quickly find other fun, interesting things to do. Definitely worth a shot!

i m webdesigner everyday i stay infront of pc around 11Hours everyday, sometime i feel like i lost something if i not touch my pc for 1 day and my hand like always wanna to type something on keyboard. do you thing i too addict to play pc to browse the internet. maybe i need to take some vacation where the place dont have any internet connection .

p/s; i will try to apply ur techique to relax

I don’t suppose you would care fora link exchange?

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