Home office must haves you may ignore

When you decide to work from home it is an exciting time. Some necessary things such as office desk, computer, comfortable chair, phone, printer, bookshelf you will not forget. But there are still some must haves you may ignore.

Lots of Space

    A big part of finding that comfort zone is having enough space. If you really want a productive home office, take some time to clean and get rid of everything that’s creating a suffocating feel in your office. If you’ve been using the area as somewhat of a storage room ever since your house movers dropped your items off, this will be a good time for you to organize everything.

A Small Refrigerator

When you’re in the middle of a conference call, the last thing you will want to do is put your clients on hold so you can go get a bottle of water. Keep a small refrigerator in the room so that you can have access to fruits and beverages without having to run to the kitchen. Working from home is all about eliminating distractions by any means.

Hang a Clock in Your Home Office

Once your office hours are set, don't forget to hang a clock on a wall or place one on your desk - anywhere it is clearly visible. While this may seem laughable (or obvious) the truth is that when working from home, it is easy to forget about time. Before you know it, you have worked a 14-hour day, for the third day in a row. Even though your work is at home, there still comes a time when you have it to call it a day and shut your door to the office.

Brighten Your Home Office with Proper Lighting

When possible, choose a space for your office that allows plenty of natural light. Consider adding task lighting, or desk lamps and floor lamps that can give concentrated lighting to your specific work area. Besides, regardless of the type of lighting available, make sure that your computer screen is positioned so that it prevents a glare from occurring. The object is to create balanced lighting that minimizes eye strain.

The story of ancient people measure time

Nowadays, your alarm clock is telling you that it's time to get out of bed and go to work or go to school. Sometimes we hate the clock because we want to get more sleep and wish that clock would just disappear!

 But have you ever wondered how you would keep track of time if all the clocks in the world really did disappear? We can use the clock to track of time, but long ago our ancient ancestors were faced with just such a problem. Clocks, as we know them today, hadn't been invented yet.

How did ancient people first learn to measure time? The difference between the dark nights and the daylight was probably the first division of time recognized by early peoples. They would also have noticed that the sun came up over the eastern horizon and went down again below the western horizon bringing darkness to their world.

  

During the day they saw that the shadow cast by a tree, a rock, or even their own body was long early in the morning and grew shorter and shorter until it disappeared when the sun was overhead in the middle of the day. They also would have noticed that the shadow grew longer again, on the other side of the tree, as night came. After awhile they were able to tell how much of the day was over by looking at the shadows. They put a stick in the ground and made marks in the dirt to show where the stick's shadow was every hour.

Today we can catch the time easier with the clock! How convenient the clocks bring to us!