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Answer from our Guest Expert Lillyvette Montalvo PAGE 3 Break Up Your Day Take a few breaks every now and then. Don't stay on the phone or computer for hours on end - that can lead to boredom and burn out. Go to the mailbox or post office to get your mail and go through all business-related items. Get out of your office when you're going to have lunch - don't eat at your desk - even if "getting out of the office" is going to another room in the house or in the kitchen! Another way to break up your home office biz day is to network and volunteer in your community. Attend the monthly chamber of commerce meetings. Chambers of commerce are great places to meet other business people in your community and a way to learn about different activities that benefit your community. Or volunteer to help a local elementary student with reading for one hour a week. Not only will this give you some time out of the office, you'll be supporting a good cause. It's extremely satisfying and it's also a wonderful way to network with and help others. Office Music to Your Ears What's your favorite kind of music? What gets your toes to tapping or lifts your spirits? Consider some music in your office; not full blast - of course - but as a background sound. If it doesn't distract your train of thought, it's nice to have these pleasant sounds lingering in the background. These are all things I do myself�in my home office! Hope some of them help you out! Best of Success to you! Lillyvette Page 1 - 2 - 3 Enter your search terms Submit search form       Search Idea Cafe Web Small Business Tax Center • Idea Cafe Home • Sign Up • Biz Grant Center • CyberSchmooz •Coffee Talk with Experts • People in Biz Profiles • Starting Your Biz • Biz Planning • Running Your Biz • FREE Trade Publications • Marketing • Financing Your Biz • Human Resources • Legal & Biz Forms • Managing Your Biz • eCommerce • You and Your Biz • Gen X • Work@Home • The Fridge • De-Stress • Send an Award • Send an eGreeting • Yoga @ Your Desk • Web Guide • Idea Cafe in the News • About Idea Cafe • Advertise on Idea Cafe • Contact Us • Privacy Policy • Site Map • Small Biz News Copyright 1995-2024, Idea Cafe Inc. Downloads are for personal use only, not for resale to others, and may not be reprinted in any form without written permission from Idea Cafe Inc. DISCLAIMER: We hope whatever you find on this site is helpful, but be cautioned that it may not apply to your own situation, or be totally current at any given time. Idea Cafe Inc. and all of its current and past experts, sponsors, advertisers, agents, contractors and advisors disclaim all warranties with regard to anything found anywhere on this family of websites, quoted from, or sent from Idea Cafe. and its related sites, publications and companies. We also take no responsibility for comments published by others on these pages. TRADEMARKS: The following are Registered Trademarks or Servicemarks of DevStart, Inc.: Idea Cafe®, Online Coffee Break®, The Small Business Gathering Place®, Take out Info®, Biz Bar & Grill®, Complaint-O-Meter®, A Fun Approach to Serious Business™, CyberSchmooz™, and BizCafe™.

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