5 Tips on Setting Up Your Entrepreneur Home Office

When it comes to entrepreneurs most work from home these days, but not all home offices are built for best productivity or comfort for that matter. If you're one of those still sitting in your couch in front of the tv trying to get some work done or perhaps sitting at the kitchen table trying to get focused, then you might want to consider building a serious home office to set up your business. Here are some tips to help you get your creativity flowing.

1 First You Might Want to Find a Good Place to Set Up Your Home Office
You'll need to find a place where you may feel at ease and have no problem to focus. You'll also need to consider the amount of space needed depending on what your business may be. Could it be extra room for locking storage cabinets, extra chair for meetings with clients or other devices such as fax machines etc. Depending on your situation at home you might want to have a door to your office to keep out distractions.

2 Do not overthink it, keep it as simple as possible
It doesn't have to be all about the filling it with the most recent modern things or with high tech devices, sometimes they're more of a distraction than they are helpful. Most of the times it's even better just to keep it clean and simple and focus on things that really is important like a comfortable chair, a good size and quality monitor for your eyes, fast internet connection, good lighting and other things actually needed for your business.

3 Light and Comfort
As I mentioned above a comfortable chair and good lighting is essential. You're going to sit at your desk for several hours and you don't want your mind thinking about how sour your butt is but to focus on the work ahead. The same goes for the lighting and your monitor as if they're poor you might end up having to rest your eyes every once in a while, perhaps even when you're in the middle of a writing and your creativity is flowing at its best.
By choosing wisely you can also prevent you from getting any long-term health problems.

4 Organization
Try to keep your desk as organized as it is possible. You don't want to start looking for any paperwork or tools that you might need every time you need them. It's frustrating and can easily get you out of that focus you need to keep up the productivity. Most of us do have almost all of our work online and if that's the case your choice of monitor is even more important. You may have a lot of windows and programs in use at the same time and you want it to be easy to switch between them instead of opening and closing all the time. In the long run this can save you a lot of time once you become an efficient user.

5. Personalize
Now when your working from home you don't have to consider the need of any other. There are no coworkers or bosses constantly keeping an eye out. You may put whatever you want in your office and if there is anything that makes you happy and motivated it should have a place. Photos of friends and family for example can be very effective but pretty much anything else that has the right effect for you may get their own place. As long as it's a motivating item rather than a distraction.

Elias Johansson