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Hi, this is Nathan holmquist, for this video I'll show you some ways in which you can stay
more productive when you're working at home. I don't know about you but when I work from
home it's easy to get distracted with sites like facebook and Gmail and other sites. So
I'm gonna show you a couple add ons and programs that will block those sites so you can focus
on the things that need to get done for the day. The first one is called stay focused.
That is an add-on for Google chrome. I believe if you use Firefox, that one is called leachblock.
But for this example, I'm going to do stay focused. So just click on add to chrome, and
you'll see it on the top right of your screen right here. Just click on that, go to settings,
go to blocked sites, and I'm gonna block, Gmail, the web address for Gmail is mail.google.com.
the reason I did this is because I might want to use the search engine or other things.
This will just block Gmail. Let's say I want to block facebook as well. So click on add
blocked sites. Go to the nuclear option. Now I don't want to block all the websites, I
just want to block the websites on my block list.
And one hour sounds good to me, so I'll click on nuke em. Hit okay a few times, and let's
see if this works. I'm going to click on Gmail. And it's blocked. So let's try one I didn't
block and see if that works. Amazon works fine. Let's go to facebook. And that one is
blocked. So as you can see, this works really well if you need to get some things done on
your computer, you have to use the internet, you have to use some sites but this allows
you to use the block the sites you don't need or that are distracting to you. The only drawback
is that it's really easy to cheat, to remove it. All you have to do is right click on it,
and click on remove from chrome, so hopefully you're not gonna cheat, because you want to
stay productive, and that extra step of removing it will stop you from cheating and getting
things done. So that is one way.
The other method I use to stay more productive at home is a website called freedom. This
is a paid program. It's 10 dollars and it works for Mac and for windows. And basically
this will block the entire internet. I actually learned this from a popular marketer, his
name is Seth Godden. I learned this from his blog. And this works really well if you have
to, if you're writing a blog post, maybe you're a computer programmer and you need to write
some code, you just have to get something done that doesn't require the internet, but
you want to still stay on your computer. So after you download that, you're gonna go to
freedom right here. And you can pick a minimum of 15 minutes to 480 minutes. Let's say you
want to do 60 minutes. And just click okay. And you won't be able to get on the internet.
So you can just focus on being on Microsoft word or whatever you need to be on. So cheating
is harder on this one, so let's say 30 minutes didn't do it. You really want to check your
Gmail, you can't just remove it, you actually have to restart your computer. So since restarting
your computer is a pain, hopefully that will stop you from cheating. So those are the 2
programs I use to stay focused. To stay on task. Once again, that's stay focused, that's
a Google chrome add on. The other one is called freedom, it's a 10 dollar application for
windows or Mac. Hope you enjoyed this video, hope this will keep you more productive when
you're working from home. Thanks a lot and I'll talk to you next time. Thanks. Bye.