1: Set Up Your Workspace Right

• Don’t work from your bed or in your bedroom if you can help it. It will encourage midday napping and ruin productivity.
• Have dedicated “work from home” clothes. So you aren’t in your normal “power suit” or your pj’s but you are in something professional but comfortable.
• Tidy off your desk. A clear desk is a clear mind!
• Invest in a quality work chair if you haven’t already so you won’t or give your self an RSI be distracted by back pain.
• If you are in a noisy environment or their other distractions use headphones to eliminate them.
• Get a second monitor to increase your productivity

2: Before You Start the Work Day

• Get a “please knock/come in” sign for your home office door.
• Make a personal ritual to indicate you are starting the workday
• Shower and get dressed. A clean body will give you a fresh start to the day.
• Do 10 minutes of exercise at least to get your blood flowing and your brain ready to work.
• Eat your normal and hopefully a proper breakfast to keep you going to your first break.
• Make a work productivity checklist to help you stay on task.
• Shut off social media notifications.

3: Make a Schedule and Stick to IT

• Start and finish your workday at the same time every day
• Set an achievable daily goal and achieve it. This is provide you with positive reinforcement
• a Schedule out a 15-minute break every hour and a half.
• Take at least a half-hour lunch break every day.
• Schedule phone calls for the afternoon between 1pm and 3pm when you are most likely
• to receive an answer and it will help to break up your day.
• Don’t ignore the schedule or you will blur the lines between work and home life

What are your top tips?

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Standard copyright rules apply such as you can’t onsell or use any of the images in products that are onsold for example website templates, calender’s etc

As per most image library’s terms of use you can not use them in any type of product which you are onselling eg website templates, calenders etc but you can use them in your own and clients commercial work.

SmallSEOTools.com also has the same tools plus quite a few more and allows you to localize the results to google.com.au rather than just google.com which is very happy but the only issue I have with it are all the ads but hey its free so I shouldn’t complain 🙂

And here is 7 more tools https://blog.kissmetrics.com/seven-free-seo-tools/

Pixabay does have some premium images in their results but these are clearly marked with the shutterstock watermark so you can’t accidentally download and use an image that is not available for use under the Creative Commons license.

As with the other image resources we have listed on this website (www.tipsforyourwebsite.com) you don’t even have to sign up for an account.

Free Design Resources is a great repository which has new download every day. They have web and design templates, layouts, addons such as photoshop addons, photos and graphic elements, fonts and pretty much everything design related.

Creative Market has 6 free Weekly Monday downloads and if you sign up to their newsletter they will let you know what is available that week- saving you the trip to their website unless you see something you want.

Example Resumes provides all of their resume templates here for free to download. they are all in MS Word format and easily edited.

Dribble.com has a freebie Resume template download which includes  MS WORD, AI, PSD version. The resume template is 100% customizable and ready to print. They have also included a help file with the main file. This freebie is usable in personal or business purposes without any permission.

Design Phantom has made available this resume template in both PSD and word format that can be downloaded from Deviant Art