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Plot your day out to your personal strengths. As a morning person and with the energy of my workout to boost me, mornings are when I try to do content. Afternoons, when my brain is a little bit sluggish, are for routine admin tasks.
Time saving tip: set up your preferred browser to automatically open your most important tabs.
If you're going to maintain a healthy work/life balance - and the present circumstances make it even more vital - you want to get through your work in an organized, concentrated manner, to increase and improve your non-work time. Which means minimizing distractions, at least the digital kind. Which for me means blocking social media, including on devices. Turn off any notifications you may have set up. It will all be there.
Get up every thirty to forty-five minutes. Set a timer. Really. It's easy to get lost in the demands of the workflow and only realizing the physical toll after the fact. This includes if you’re on long virtual calls, which should be treated just as if they were in-person events: at least a ten minute break every fifty minutes. (This is a routine I've instituted for several clients that has become very popular, especially as virtual conference calls are now the norm). If you have children or pets, interact with them. If not, run your vacuum, run the dishwasher, unload it, start a load of laundry, dust something, make pastry or stock or prep something for dinner. All these interim but vital physical reliefs are one of the reasons I've loved working virtually for the last five years. This is multi tasking at its most useful, for all sides.
Virtual conference call tip: these can be an optimal time to do a little stretching, especially if it's a large call and you don't have to have your video on. It's easy to have your concentration on the call while you give your work-related joints the relief they need.
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