Speaker 1: Welcome to the Rise and Conquer Podcasts. This podcast is
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Speaker 1: a lawyer turned entrepreneur, co founder of Naked Harvest Supplements,
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Speaker 1: created for me. But then I entered my corporate law
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Speaker 1: what are you waiting for? Let's rise and conquer, Hey guys,
Speaker 1: and welcome to another episode of the Rise and Conquer podcast.
Speaker 1: Today we are rising and conquering working from home. So
Speaker 1: I know a lot of us, if not most of us,
Speaker 1: are now working from home because of the circumstances and
Speaker 1: everything that is happening. And I personally used to work
Speaker 1: in corporate, used to work in a law firm and
Speaker 1: then quit that did my your own thing. I have
Speaker 1: been working from home for probably two or three years now,
Speaker 1: and it was an adjustment. I remember it literally took
Speaker 1: me six months to like find my groove, to find
Speaker 1: a new schedule, to find what worked for me, and
Speaker 1: to actually be productive because I found I was trying
Speaker 1: to mimic my corporate routine and then it wasn't productive
Speaker 1: and it was this weird time. So I'm hoping I
Speaker 1: can share some tits with you guys, and you don't
Speaker 1: have to go through that six month period and you
Speaker 1: can kind of start adapting and getting into being productive
Speaker 1: and working from home and feeling good because I know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of uncertainty and a lot of fear,
Speaker 1: and it's good to you know, be certain in your
Speaker 1: routine and working from home and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: So let's get straight into it. I want this to
Speaker 1: be a quick sort of in your ears, give you
Speaker 1: some tips, and then on your way podcast. So I've
Speaker 1: got sick sort of tips that I really thought back
Speaker 1: about what changed my routine, and these are more stuff
Speaker 1: that I realized made me more productive that was This
Speaker 1: is a big kind of thing in these tips. So
Speaker 1: first of all, let's get straight into number one, which
Speaker 1: is sticking to a schedule and time blocking your day.
Speaker 1: So I will be putting a photo on my schedule
Speaker 1: right now on either the Rise and Conker podcasts or
Speaker 1: my personal instagram at Georgie Stevenson, and it will just
Speaker 1: show you kind of a breakdown of my day that
Speaker 1: does change bit. There are like certain things that don't change,
Speaker 1: and there's certain things that I make sure I get
Speaker 1: into my day. So if you need some inspo of
Speaker 1: kind of rescheduling your day because it's a bit different
Speaker 1: now that you don't have to you know, travel to
Speaker 1: work or that sort of thing, definitely go and check
Speaker 1: that out. But I did want to mention that this
Speaker 1: is going to look so different, but everyone and I
Speaker 1: think that's why I struggled so much when I was
Speaker 1: adjusting to working at home, because I was trying to
Speaker 1: fit myself in this box of like my corporate routine
Speaker 1: or what I used to do, and it just wasn't working.
Speaker 1: So big thing is try and fill out, like for example,
Speaker 1: when you say, oh, I'm going to start work at
Speaker 1: this time, or work out at this time, or have
Speaker 1: lunch this time, like see if it feels good to you,
Speaker 1: And I know that's weird, but kind of like sit
Speaker 1: on it and just be like, oh, does that feel
Speaker 1: really good to me? Or could I maybe change that up?
Speaker 1: And then obviously you will need to experiment. But basically
Speaker 1: I fully schedule out my day and time block it
Speaker 1: so like you know, I'm waking up and then having
Speaker 1: my morning routine and I block out about an hour
Speaker 1: and a half to two hours for that, and then
Speaker 1: I have my starting work ritual and then I have
Speaker 1: you know, my most important task of the day and
Speaker 1: checking emails, and and then I schedule in if I
Speaker 1: have to take any calls or talk to mel or
Speaker 1: you know, people on my team and then I also
Speaker 1: like schedule in my lunch hower. I schedule in if
Speaker 1: I'm answering DMS, and basically I time block my day
Speaker 1: because when you're at home there's just so many distractions
Speaker 1: as like oh I could put on a load of washing,
Speaker 1: or oh I could do this, I need to clean
Speaker 1: this room, and cause you're like in the same environment,
Speaker 1: I just found it super helpful to like time block
Speaker 1: my day and then like go back to this piece
Speaker 1: of paper of like when I'm telling myself, you know,
Speaker 1: I need to be finishing this off, I need to
Speaker 1: be doing podcasts and that sort of thing. And then
Speaker 1: it's also really good to have a list. I talk
Speaker 1: about this all the time of kind of having this
Speaker 1: like huge continuous list because all my jobs are continuous,
Speaker 1: you know, like I release a podcast, I release a YouTube,
Speaker 1: all this sort of thing. Sometimes my big main list
Speaker 1: can feel overwhelming. So every single day I peer three
Speaker 1: to five things and I'm like, Okay, this is what
Speaker 1: I want to accomplish today. I put it in time blocks.
Speaker 1: I see how it's all going to work, and I
Speaker 1: go from there. So cannot stress enough. Schedule out your day,
Speaker 1: like literally put in your morning routine, your lunch breaks
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. Okay, so I kind
Speaker 1: of touched on this, But number two is realizing that
Speaker 1: you need to have a ritual for starting your workday,
Speaker 1: having lunch, and ending your workday. So I didn't realize
Speaker 1: this for ages, and my whole day kind of just
Speaker 1: like merged into one and I felt very all over
Speaker 1: the place. And so what I mean by this is
Speaker 1: having a ritual that you do during the day that
Speaker 1: acknowledges Okay, I'm starting work and I'm finishing work. And so,
Speaker 1: for instance, when we're working out of an office, this
Speaker 1: is really simple because we enter the office or we
Speaker 1: leave the office and we get on the bus to
Speaker 1: go home, and obviously know we have different rooms in
Speaker 1: our house, but it is like, especially if you don't
Speaker 1: have an office and you're working from your dining table
Speaker 1: or something, it can be really easy to kind of
Speaker 1: just like merge all your time into one and not
Speaker 1: be like clear. And this is more for your mental
Speaker 1: health on being clear on Okay, when is my brain
Speaker 1: in work mode and when am I shutting off and
Speaker 1: doing my personal stuff or winding down for the day.
Speaker 1: So I kind of started experimenting with this and I
Speaker 1: am such a habal habits and ritual person. You guys
Speaker 1: should know this. So basically, it can be anything that
Speaker 1: feels good for you. For example, something that pops into
Speaker 1: my mind straight away is a big thing for me
Speaker 1: is journaling and meditating. That is part of my morning
Speaker 1: routine kind of towards the end. And so I will
Speaker 1: usually meditate, then journal and then I get my coffee
Speaker 1: and I'm into the workday. And I find that works
Speaker 1: well because when I'm journaling and meditating, I get in
Speaker 1: this like a really good headspace and it's like all right,
Speaker 1: have my coffee and straight into my emails or work.
Speaker 1: And also, like for shutting down, that is so important
Speaker 1: for me. I went through this whole period of having
Speaker 1: really bad sleeps and I realized it was because I
Speaker 1: didn't have any boundaries and shut up times with my work.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of a Number two is like literally
Speaker 1: just like boundaries around your work times because we're not
Speaker 1: leaving your office and entering the office. So for me
Speaker 1: shutting off, it's I have a beach walk or you know,
Speaker 1: I I do my little self care routine. Something I'm
Speaker 1: super big on at the moment is like putting on
Speaker 1: some music, putting on my diffuser or like a really
Speaker 1: nice podcast, and like spending a lot of time like
Speaker 1: taking off my makeup, doing my skin routine, having a bath,
Speaker 1: and really kind of just like giving myself like half
Speaker 1: an hour of like me self care time. I'm really
Speaker 1: loving that at the moment, I think it's like it's
Speaker 1: definitely a grounding thing for me. So definitely start thinking
Speaker 1: about some rituals that you can put around that. It
Speaker 1: just basically creates boundaries around your start and finish and
Speaker 1: maybe even lunch times off your day because it will
Speaker 1: just feel all over the place. Okay, So third tip
Speaker 1: is you need to set up your environment. So for example,
Speaker 1: I have an office where I have a whole room
Speaker 1: set up and it's like set up really lovely. It
Speaker 1: has all my nice things. It has my book, my book,
Speaker 1: my book, my bookshelf, and you know, my oil diffuser
Speaker 1: and my saving sticks and crystals, and it just feels
Speaker 1: really good. Like when I know, for example, when I
Speaker 1: get into this space, it's like this is work time
Speaker 1: and it feels really good. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: you maybe aren't working for an office, but it's like
Speaker 1: you know, your dining room or your bedroom or something
Speaker 1: like that. So I really encourage you to set up
Speaker 1: your environment when you start work. So this is stuff
Speaker 1: like I have a and Spotify playlist that I play
Speaker 1: that it's like more chill music even recently to really
Speaker 1: really calm myself down because I feel like I've been
Speaker 1: super anxious as I've been playing. It's literally called Meditate
Speaker 1: to the Sounds of Nature, And it's like this list
Speaker 1: with all this beautiful meditating music. But I just listened
Speaker 1: to that as I work to really put me in
Speaker 1: this like calming sort of zen zone. So you know,
Speaker 1: set up a playlist of all your favorite beats that
Speaker 1: make you feel happy. Another thing is, like I said,
Speaker 1: I have an oil diffuser. I put some lavender in
Speaker 1: there or some orange if I want to spice up
Speaker 1: the senses. I have, you know, my favorite tea cup
Speaker 1: that I have like teas twice a day. I have
Speaker 1: my flower thing. I have crystals. So a big thing
Speaker 1: for me now is I meditate and have been using
Speaker 1: practicing with crystals. My two bestest friends actually just launched
Speaker 1: a crystal business and so they're selling crystal. It is
Speaker 1: called Core Crystal Code. Check it out if you're into
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, because not only do they sell crystals,
Speaker 1: but they also have heaps of information on their Instagram
Speaker 1: about rituals to do with your crystals, which I love.
Speaker 1: So I also have my crystals around me, the ones
Speaker 1: that I use in my office. Oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna forget the name, Cinda will kill me. But they're
Speaker 1: basically a crystal and they're really good for grounding, so
Speaker 1: they're this gray crystal. I use them to meditate too.
Speaker 1: And then I have this other no idea what it's called,
Speaker 1: but it's like orange and white, and it's really good
Speaker 1: for like prosperity and like attracting good vibes and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So I have, you know, my beautiful crystals around me. Hey, guys,
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Speaker 1: back into the episode. Lighting is a big thing for
Speaker 1: me too. I do the lighting quite low, like I
Speaker 1: close my blinds and I don't actually have too much
Speaker 1: light coming in. But this whole thing is setting up
Speaker 1: your environment so it feels nice and clean and makes
Speaker 1: you productive, and it kind of like gives you that
Speaker 1: aroma of Okay, this is work time, but it's still
Speaker 1: like this really nice, calming, productive space. I think that's
Speaker 1: really important. I definitely in the morning before I actually
Speaker 1: start work, if you know I've got I'm always leaving
Speaker 1: like cups around or plates or something like that. Or
Speaker 1: if I've got like my podcast get out and then
Speaker 1: before I start my day, like I will just do
Speaker 1: a quick tidy up of my office and kind of
Speaker 1: set things straight and clear it for the day. And
Speaker 1: also something I do every single Monday is I sage
Speaker 1: my office, So I sage the space and I kind
Speaker 1: of just like clear any negative energy from the previous
Speaker 1: week and I just go from there. You can also
Speaker 1: get sage sticks from Core Crystal Co Two which I
Speaker 1: will link in the show notes. Definitely check that out.
Speaker 1: So the next tip I have, I think a'reunto. The
Speaker 1: fourth tip is to make sure you're eating lunch away
Speaker 1: from your desk or where you're working, and also try
Speaker 1: and get some outside time. So when we're working from home,
Speaker 1: we don't have any outside time of you know, walking
Speaker 1: into work or finding a park and walking to work
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So you'll find you're quite sedative,
Speaker 1: and then you're also not like seeing outside. I know
Speaker 1: that sounds funny. So a big thing I like to
Speaker 1: do is like eat my lunch away from my desk.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to you, guys, I don't do
Speaker 1: it all the time, but this was important, especially when adjusting,
Speaker 1: just to like create a bit of our routine. And
Speaker 1: something I love doing is I love eating my lunch
Speaker 1: outside on my balcony, just like looking at the sky,
Speaker 1: getting a bit of fresh air. It breaks up the day.
Speaker 1: It just makes me feel a bit better. And I
Speaker 1: feel like people can feel quite like suffocate when you're
Speaker 1: like living at home, working from home, doing everything from home.
Speaker 1: So it's really good to like get out of your
Speaker 1: environment obviously, you know if you're an apartment that just
Speaker 1: like go on your balcony or go out and sit
Speaker 1: on the grass or that sort of thing. That was
Speaker 1: a really important point. And also make sure you block
Speaker 1: out your lunch time, so like give yourself Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stop now it's twelve thirty, and I'll give myself
Speaker 1: an hour. I was doing this thing when I first transitioned,
Speaker 1: and I like wouldn't really block out my time, and
Speaker 1: I would take my lunch break and then it would
Speaker 1: be like three pm and I'd be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what am I doing. So really kind of be strict
Speaker 1: on the lunch break. So next point I want to
Speaker 1: chat about Tip number five is now if you were
Speaker 1: working from home, I guarantee you have at least twenty
Speaker 1: minutes if not, you know, towards an hour or two
Speaker 1: hours extra during your day. So this means instead of
Speaker 1: getting in your car and traveling to work, you are
Speaker 1: saving that time. And I think it's really really important
Speaker 1: to not waste that time and to put it to
Speaker 1: good use. This is really kind of the benefit out
Speaker 1: of like all this kind of negative stuff happening right now,
Speaker 1: is we have a lot more time for ourselves, and
Speaker 1: I want you guys to use it. I know it's
Speaker 1: super tempting to spend that, you know, twenty minutes to
Speaker 1: an hour on social media or like doing something almost
Speaker 1: a bit pointless. Bit this is like you get I
Speaker 1: remember me and Tim used to have this saying which
Speaker 1: we shouldn't say this, but it's basically like there's not
Speaker 1: enough hours in the day, especially when we worked when
Speaker 1: I worked corporate and Tim was working full time in
Speaker 1: the city. Like because of traveling, you just you don't
Speaker 1: have much time during the day. You get home and
Speaker 1: it's dark and now you guys have extra time, so
Speaker 1: don't waste it. Personally, a big thing that I implemented
Speaker 1: is like self development time where I spent an hour
Speaker 1: every single day like either learning a new skill or
Speaker 1: working on myself. Like that just means listening to a podcast,
Speaker 1: reading a book, taking an online course, like learning a
Speaker 1: new skill, doing something that like makes you feel good
Speaker 1: and like it makes you feel like you're progressing as
Speaker 1: a human rather than just like losing brain cells doing
Speaker 1: nothing scrolling Instagram. And that's fine. Like, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: obviously I do that, but just like limiting our time
Speaker 1: and where we have free time to like even it
Speaker 1: could be you know, cleaning or doing different tasks so
Speaker 1: you're not as stressed, but like really being useful with
Speaker 1: our time and not just like chilling out. Obviously we
Speaker 1: have our chill at time. Like I literally watch Netflix
Speaker 1: every single night, you know, from seven o'clock. And I
Speaker 1: don't think there's anything wrong with that, but like during
Speaker 1: the day, I really try and be intentional. That's probably
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say. Yeah, really intentional with my
Speaker 1: time and quite specific. So guys, we'll have a bit
Speaker 1: of extra time and I would not waste it something
Speaker 1: I don't want to like scare you guys when I
Speaker 1: say this, But with everything happening, like we definitely have
Speaker 1: a recession, even if it's a mile like a small recession.
Speaker 1: We definitely have a recession coming, which means there is
Speaker 1: going to be less jobs available. There is going to
Speaker 1: be a bit of a lack sort of thing coming.
Speaker 1: And I'd have said this in the podcast. I was
Speaker 1: chatting to her a couple of episodes ago, and she
Speaker 1: was kind of saying, this is the perfect time to
Speaker 1: learn new skills if you are in marketing and you
Speaker 1: haven't done any new skills in marketing since your degree
Speaker 1: at Union that was like five years ago. Like take
Speaker 1: an online marketing course like get sharper and more useful,
Speaker 1: especially in case you have to get a new job
Speaker 1: or you have to do something different or adapt learn
Speaker 1: new skills, like put this time to good use. I
Speaker 1: cannot stress that enough. And even not so much good
Speaker 1: in use of like learning a new skill or being useful.
Speaker 1: But just like I find I just feel better as
Speaker 1: a human if I am progressing and just learning new things.
Speaker 1: It really brings me joy. So that that's a big thing.
Speaker 1: The last thing I want to touch on, and I
Speaker 1: think we can get very sort of stuck working from home.
Speaker 1: And it's weird because when I first started working from home,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm working from home and I don't
Speaker 1: feel like I'm getting much more done, Like you feel
Speaker 1: like you should be getting more done. I don't know,
Speaker 1: that could just be me. But basically a big thing
Speaker 1: that I like doing is I like creating an end
Speaker 1: of day. Let's call it like a celebration list. And
Speaker 1: basically this is like a to do list, but instead
Speaker 1: of putting like your to dos, you put down the
Speaker 1: stuff that you got done and that you feel accomplished for,
Speaker 1: and it's just about to celebrate what you accomplished that day.
Speaker 1: And I think this is really important because when I
Speaker 1: first started, I had this like thing of I just
Speaker 1: like I felt like I was working from home and
Speaker 1: I should be doing more and getting more done because
Speaker 1: you know, I had more time and whatnot, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's not like that. So I think it's really
Speaker 1: important to write down things like being like, Okay, today,
Speaker 1: I might have ticked all my toutuos off, but I
Speaker 1: got this done, and I feel like it really shifts
Speaker 1: our focus and it really makes us feel good. And
Speaker 1: then also like a big thing with the celebration list
Speaker 1: that I was talking about is doing like a bit
Speaker 1: of a gratitude list and be like cool, I got this, this,
Speaker 1: and this done today. I also did some personal development.
Speaker 1: I listened to a podcast. I ate lunch outside, and
Speaker 1: that's just like shifting this, you know. I feel like
Speaker 1: some people can get in a bit of a negative
Speaker 1: state about working from home and not being around people,
Speaker 1: especially if you're an extra that and so it's just
Speaker 1: like shifting into a bit of a positive energy, a
Speaker 1: positive place. So that is it, Guys, there my tits
Speaker 1: from working from home. Like I said, like I know
Speaker 1: some people, it feels weird and it's an adjustment and
Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard to get a routine, especially when
Speaker 1: you've had a different routine for so long. But I
Speaker 1: think a big thing is like giving yourself kindness and
Speaker 1: compassion during this time, making it a bit fun, Like
Speaker 1: have fun with these like starting work and ending day
Speaker 1: rituals and give yourself kindness and sit out in the
Speaker 1: sun and eat your lunch outside. Like, I personally love
Speaker 1: working from home. I would not trade it to work
Speaker 1: from corporate at all. I'm a total introvert though, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope those tits are helpful. I am just sending
Speaker 1: you so much love during this time. If you guys haven't,
Speaker 1: please come and jump into our private Facebook account group.
Speaker 1: Sorry it is Rise and Conquer Community on Facebook, and
Speaker 1: let me know how you're feeling, let me know what's
Speaker 1: going on, and let's connect. I think during this time,
Speaker 1: you know, we're so used to having connection with our
Speaker 1: friends and family and we can't even do that at
Speaker 1: the moment. So it's important to stay connected and I
Speaker 1: love doing it with my RNC fam. But I hope
Speaker 1: you guys have an awesome day or night whenever you're listening,
Speaker 1: and I will chat to you in my next episode.
Speaker 1: Much love, bye, And that's a wrap on another episode
Speaker 1: of the Rise and Concer Podcast. I hope you got
Speaker 1: something valuable from it, and I want to say a
Speaker 1: big thank you for tuning in. I really really do
Speaker 1: appreciate it. If you're craving more than don't worry, I've
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