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WFH: Tips From Marie Kondo On How To Make A Home Office More Efficient

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WFH: Tips From Marie Kondo On How To Make A Home Office More Efficient

Is working from home not as productive as you want it to be? Marie Kondo shares her tips on how to create a more conducive environment

September 11, 2020
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Whether you’re a fan of the #MariKon method or not, you can’t deny that Marie Kondo really knows how to tidy up and make things more efficient around the house. And with working from home being the new normal, the organisation maven has come out with a new book, Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life, that also touches on how to make your workspace more functional and productive.

Marie Kondo also shared some tips with Time on how to “make your home into a space that sparks both joy and productivity”. Read on to find out how we can apply her tips and advice during our current WFH phase.

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WFH: Tips From Marie Kondo On How To Make A Home Office More Efficient
Separate your workspace and living space
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To draw the line between the workspace and living space, Kondo suggests “keeping all the tools that you use for work on a little tray and store it away so that you only bring them out when you need to.”

This helps you to define work and rest more clearly, and it also helps to keep your workspace tidy, especially if your work desk is also your dining table.

She added: “I like to have a ritual, whether it’s meditation or chiming my tuning fork, that allows me to shift gears in my mind and let my body know that I am entering work mode.”

For some of us who don’t have a tuning fork, sticking closely to a routine will help you keep focused at work, and be less distracted and tempted to laze in bed or play your favourite mobile app game.

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The key to a productive work space? Knowing what conditions allow your creativity to flow. You might get more inspiration with nothing in sight. Or you might thrive in an atmosphere filled with spark joy mementos. What’s your ideal creative environment? #mykonmari office moment by @rachelorganizes.

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Sharing a workspace
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On sharing workspaces, Kondo said: “It’s very important that we’re aware of our family members and partners’ work schedules for the day so we can complement each other, support each other and align our priorities.”

When it comes to understanding one another, Kondo likes to write down her goals for the day and share it with her husband, taking time to explain what they need of each other.

And if your spouse is someone messy and likes leaving things around, Kondo brings out her nifty tray trick again. She said: “Put all of your partner’s work tools on a separate tray and put it away.”

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My new book, “Joy at Work,” is a guide to removing clutter from all aspects of your career so you can focus on work that really matters to you. To learn more about “Joy at Work” — and how my co-author @scott.sonenshein and I collaborated — visit the link in my profile! ??✨

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Decluttering work that doesn't spark joy
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Kondo explains three ways things can spark joy: “The first category is things that directly allow us to feel joy. The second is functional joy, things that you use frequently that make your daily work easier. And the third is future joy, things that will contribute to your future plan for your career.”

Using invoices as examples, or compiling claims and keying it into a system for some, she said it may not spark joy, “but it is what allows you to get payment in the future, so in that sense it sparks joy.”

So if anything that falls into those three categories, you can go ahead and keep them as long as it’ll make you happy, even if it’s in the near future.

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Documents, notebooks, memo pads, postcards and envelopes should be stored near bookshelves because books are the king of the “paper” category. ? Photo by @aceofspaceorganizationwilm.

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Keeping a peaceful mind
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Most importantly, we need to keep our minds at peace to be effective and productive at work. Kondo suggests meditating in the morning or night before going to bed, or it could be something as simple as spraying incense or fragrance in the air just to end the day with positivity and gratitude.

Text: Melissa Goh/AsiaOne

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What a week! Taking a moment to center myself and calm my mind. I hope you do something nice for yourself, too! ✨

A post shared by Marie Kondo (@mariekondo) on May 15, 2020 at 5:20pm PDT

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