First day working from home?! Help!

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2 weeks into my new role. It's social care sector without giving too much away. I am to be office based, but alot of my colleagues work from home. Manager called me yesterday to say the wifi in work is dodgy, I can work from home today. I'm still in induction period, so mostly policy and procedure reading and setting up IT.
I've started clearing an office space. I'm trying to focus.
But keep cleaning the house, putting on washing, chatting to baby and childminder, as my home space is open plan. I cannot seen to get down to it!
Any tips??

Have you tried sitting down in front of your laptop, turning it on, logging in and starting to work?

You need to be in a different room to your baby and childminder - the bedroom if needs be, otherwise it will never work. Get ready in the morning with the mindset that you are going to work, and stick to it. There's no other way really.

Write a to-do list.

Position your desk so you can’t look out of a window. I find facing a wall works best. Turn the radio on very low.

Make yourself a cuppa, sit down and choose a specific task. Promise yourself a five minute break and another cuppa when the task is finished.

Set a specific hour for lunch.

Starting work won't just happen by itself the way work in an office does once you've done the usual hellos and made coffee. You need very deliberately to make it happen.

Try picturing the childminder handing over the baby when she goes, and what you'll feel like if by then you haven't done the work you need to. It's not a nice feeling!

Find your place to work, get your coffee, put some earphones in and play some music, and just start. If you don't, you will run out of time, and it will feel shit.

I go elsewhere - coffee shop or library usually.

I've sent childminder and baby out, set a to do list. Low music is a good idea. Will work through till 1 and not move. Then lynch then back till 5. It's just totally new to me, I probably sound ridiculous, I intend to get the work done, was just looking for tips.

The risk with the distractions at home is that, even with an absolutely rock solid intention to get the work done, you somehow never quite get round to starting...

Get off Mumsnet.

It takes some getting used to. I started WFH on a regular basis a few months ntgs ago and settled into after a few tries. You probably get distracted just as much in the office, they're just different distractions.

see i found it very easy to work from home. make cup of tea, turn on pc and log in, check emails, action emails, and then crack on with running reports etc. probably helped that i was dealing with accounts stuff - so reconciling invoices, and credit card statements and running reports from one system to be checked against another system etc so very tangible things.

I just sit at the dining table and have some music on and just....well, work.

I get up and make coffee just like i do when in the office and let the dog out etc. I'm not chained to my laptop, as long as my work is done then that is all that matters.

I could not work with my little one around though, far too distracting.

I find making a to do list generally terrifies me into starting work ASAP