7 Advantages of Working From Home

ANUBHAV KAPOOR

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The workplace niche is fast evolving with many organizations offering employees the opportunity to work from home.

Further, many people have started preferring freelancing as opposed to a regular, office-based profiles. This highlights a growing preference of people to work from home. Here, we try to decode the reasons why working from home is getting increasingly popular.

1. Freedom at Work

Whether you are running a home-based business or work as a freelancing article writer, working from home gives you a sense of freedom. This is felt in every aspect of home-based working. This includes wearing comfy clothes, letting your hair be untidy, eating at your desk and moving around for as many breaks you need to talk to your friends. This might induce the impression that working from home is lax. However, these are just small traits that make you feel more comfortable. The aura of an informal workplace is more soothing. You can choose your working hours, nap when you want and decide the pace of work as per your own preference.

2. Define Your Remuneration

This might sound strange but both kinds of people, i.e. those who seek higher remuneration and those who seek a basic remuneration but relaxed working conditions can benefit from working at home. As a freelancer or a home-based entrepreneur, you can work endlessly throughout the day, across multiple ventures without being answerable to anybody. If you have a pile of cash to sit upon and seek an earning scale that covers your basic expenses, you can choose a slower pace of work.

3. Escape the Office Politics

Being a work-from-home professional, you don’t have to deal with the daily office politics or anger tantrums of your boss. You get to escape all the unpleasantness found in conventional workplaces. You are free from the negativity of jealous employees and back-biting, bitchy colleagues.

4. Grow Liberally, Multi-Dexterously

It is often said that an individual who chooses to grow constantly is more likely to be happy. This is the true definition of a progressive human being. Working from your home means you have the chance to pursue this rather difficult goal. For instance, you can gain multiple online degrees or distance education diplomas. You have the freedom to study in-between completing your assignments. You can invest more time in spiritual growth. You can expand your professional horizon too. For instance, you might want to pursue being a mystery shopper along with being a freelance, content writer!

5. Create More Family Time

This is a major lure for many people who are constantly struggling to provide sufficient time to their families. Working from home allows you the chance to indulge in daily occurrences of your household. This can be done along with doing your assignments. For instance, you can fetch the groceries whenever you seek a short break from work. You can ensure that your sick mother is given her medications on time.

6. Benefit from Financial Savings

As compared to a typical professional lifestyle, working at home provides many money-saving options. For starters, you save upon fuel or commuting costs. Combine this with your wardrobe necessities to look good at the office and overhead expenses incurred in pooling for different activities, and you can get a realistic idea about the kind of money you can save. Secondly, working as a freelancer, you also get the option to get paid via mediums that aren't taxed at source like your salary.

7. In Conclusion, Create a More Relaxed Lifestyle

If you are someone who seeks that daily adrenaline rush, then working at home might not be the best option for you. However, if seek a slower pace of life, less anxieties to fight and an overall, relaxed way of living, operating from home might just be your best bet. (Work Life, MensXP.com)

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Things You Should Never Tell Your Co-workers
ANUBHAV KAPOOR

Life at the office just seems incomplete without the usual, daily dose of idle chatter.


As insane it might sound, this can seriously hamper your progress at the workplace and compromise your reputation if you are not aware about things that shouldn’t be shared with your co-workers. This fact is a bit more applicable to men who aren't naturally-gifted gibbers as women and tend to go overboard with details that can do little good to their reputation at work. You might have figured out what kind of office colleagues you can trust and the best time to babble but you also need to know about the topics that just shouldn’t be touched upon, such as:


Details Related To New Job
Talking about your work frustrations is fine since it helps you venting some steam and keeps you more focused on your job. However, don’t start conversations that are related to how serious you are about a change in profession and the kind of
employment offers you have been receiving. Until you have another offer in hand that makes you feel secure enough, curb the keenness to share such details. Word about such things travels fast and once the upper hierarchy gets a sniff of it, there is no turning back in terms of reclaiming the trust they would lose in you.


Being Over-Courteous When Complimenting Your Lady Boss’ Looks
Yes, you have every right to observe women at work and pass judgment about them. This is the kind of mental fodder that men need to keep themselves relaxed during office hours. However, be wary of going into detailed descriptions when sharing your lady boss’ figure or overall looks with your colleagues. These compliments tend to travel around fast and can be easily misinterpreted. If you have been fantasizing about her in creative ways that you feel should be shared with your lesser-gifted office fellows, try to contain the Don Juan within you to ensure your reputation remains intact.


Being Involved, Romantically, At Office
You might feel the urgent need to announce it to whole world how you have been able to get a date with the new girl in the upper floor that every guy at office had been ogling, but just remember, these kind of updates spread like wild fire. Try to keep the sense of accomplishment restricted to your own mind and refrain from sharing it. The same applies to going steady or being in a relationship with somebody at work. If such things are discovered despite your best efforts to conceal it, you shouldn’t feel guilty about it but letting out the word through boasting about it makes little sense.


Your Weekend Exploits
You might have scored with a chic or gotten wasted at a bachelor party or might have partied hard until your legs couldn’t carry you and have a tendency to blurt out the finer details of such exploits over the weekend? Stop Yourself! This is particularly recommended to guys who inhabit an office that has a significant number of women. While men might pat your back for such deeds, you can feel assured about some of the women taking an offence to your perspective of weekend fun that invariably seems to involve casual, bedroom encounters. (Work Life, MensXP.com)

Discover How to Control Your Boss
ANUBHAV KAPOOR
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Contemporary workplace relationships have become liberal, infusing a sense of independence among people at work


but some things are unchangeable and one such facet across offices is the relationship between a boss and subordinates. Yes, addressing your boss on first-name basis might make you feel like an equal but remember, most bosses are egoistic—it is just a matter of this aspect being easily visible or concealed. Thus, no matter how progressive your organization seems, keeping your boss happy, his ego polished and more importantly, controlling your boss is a vital requirement.


Getting Started: Always Get Noticed
Don’t be an invisible employee in your office. Controlling your boss cannot be accomplished unless you are omnipresent, around the office. Ensure that you are always a part of his decision-making process. This is the first step towards ensuring that your boss associates you among his core group of people. You being a subordinate won’t matter as long as you are visible at all the important moments. Be at the forefront of team discussions when opinions are sought. Never let go of an opportunity to get highlighted. Your popularity will ensure that your boss cannot excuse you from the team. Once you establish this degree of importance, you can step ahead.


Be the Boss’ Handyman: Get Odd Jobs Done
In serviced apartment complexes, there is a handyman who is called upon by the occupants for a range of things they cannot do themselves or find hard-to-manage. A handyman isn't the richest, the most impressive or good-looking guy—his utility makes him important to everyone. Similar to him, you too should try to be the “go-to guy” when you boss needs unofficial, odd jobs done. This is the second step towards building the boss’ trust in you. Secondly, it provides you a certain degree of power for influencing things in the future. Your handyman-like profile means that you are entrusted with the boss’ personal information which if revealed could be damaging to the boss’ reputation. Once you are officially the person who gets the boss’ informal work done, you can use this reputation to leverage leaves and incentives in your favor.


Identify the Boss’s Enemies At Work
This might sound a bit far stretched but office politics is not surprising to any of us. Your boss too will have contemporaries and other professionals in the organization he is jealous of or feels threatened by—identify such folks. Now, you have to enact a rather simple task, i.e. hate and bitch about these people in front of your boss. The boss might not openly endorse the happiness he feels for his workplace enemies being bad-mouthed but indirectly, he will develop an appreciation for your judgment. This unsaid bond of admiration based upon mutual hatred, between you and your boss, can be used to manipulate decisions in your favor.


Identify Gray Areas in Your Boss’ Profile
No matter how perfect a senior might seem, everybody has got some skeletons in the closet. This could be in the form of having lied about work experience, fabricating educational qualifications, an office affair or even a deviant sexual orientation. No matter what, always keep searching for things that your boss isn't particularly proud about or doesn’t share. Once you discover such secrets, create a dramatized situation wherein you indirectly hint at knowing about and understanding such issues. For instance, if your boss is seeking psychotherapy, enact the role of a perpetually anxious person who is contemplating going to a psychologist. This will win you the sympathy of your boss, further strengthening the bond you guys share. This soft corner that you can carve in his heart can be used in the future for getting things done, your way. (Work Life, MensXP.com)

5 Reasons why Office Colleagues should only be 9 to 5 Friends
RASHI JOSHI
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Man is a social animal. We meet people, talk to them and they become acquaintances, we talk to them a little more and they become friends, a couple of beers and they become greatest pals.


The colleagues at work might be friendly and jovial, but that doesn’t guarantee a sound friendship for life. I’m not asking you to stop socializing at the work place, but keep these friendships limited till your office hours, i.e.9AM to 5PM. One should not make a mistake of over estimating the friendship of your colleague at work. There are many things you guys might have in common like having the same boss, hating the boss equally and sharing the same level of intense hatred for the boss’s pet, but this shouldn’t be a reason for you to see him/her as your BFF(best friend forever), for the under mentioned reasons:


Similar urges
Your colleague at work is the same as you. Whether it be an urge for recognition in front of the boss, for bonuses, for raise, for promotions and the list is endless. Now, just because both of you are friends (with or without benefits), it doesn’t change your opinion towards your work and the aforementioned urges. You would still want the raise, promotion and bonus. Problems arise in case of peers. Subordinates have an innate ability to refrain you from moving ahead, no matter how many times you hang around after office.


Creates room for rumors
When you become friends with a colleague at work, there’s every possibility that you introduce him to your personal life also. Don’t be in haste in revealing your personal issues and plans in front of your office mate. If things go wrong between you two, there will be a huge whirlpool of raving rumors about what you said about the boss, the girls you had a crush on, and all your dirty linens will be washed in public.


Spoils your personal life
We talk to our friends about common interests, and when a colleague becomes a friend, all you will end up talking about will be the tyranny of your boss, the girls at the office, that irritating account keeping and everything relating to office. This will harm your work-life balance. You will end up talking all about office in the office, and now even outside the office. There will be little space left in your life when you devote time to your interests, your acquaintances, your family. Most likely your relationships will suffer too, as which girl can stand her guy talking office-office all the times, like her nagging was not enough.


Opinionated and coterie-ish
We live in a century where it is very unlikely of one’s opinion to be his own. Someone, somewhere, inspires you in liking the other colleague, hating the boss and ignoring that fellow in the IT Department. The colleague-friend of yours shall render his opinion to you. Such opinion is not only to be appreciated by you, but is also to be accepted and implied on. You have to hate them or like them, as much as your friend does. You lose individuality, and are noticed by the leader of the coterie only. If you are over friendly with a bad guy at office, you are bad too, and vice versa.


Your 'real' friends should get more priority
When you are in a position to work and earn, you have crossed decades of school, college, gym, guitar classes, and Facebook friendships. What about your friends from that era? You can’t outrightly ignore them now, since you found bunch of mates you could nag all day long with. Your mates at work might be good listeners and talkers, but when it comes to advises for life, your old time friends are the best people to talk to. Don’t even try mingling your colleagues and other friends, as no other friends would love to talk about your boss, or hot girls at your office, whom they don’t even get to see. (Work Life, MensXP.com)

Learn How to Meet Deadlines

Learn How to Meet Deadlines
ANUBHAV KAPOOR
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Whether it is for getting work done at home or office, we are faced with deadlines on an almost, daily basis.


Deadlines can be a source of constant worry, inducing unwanted anxiety that is detrimental to your health and often, the catalyst for many health issues. Therefore, it is wise to get acquainted with some easy ways of managing deadlines. The points listed below aren't similar to the motivational text and similar-sounding advice that flood the web—these are some handy tips that you can actually use to ease your life:


Your Working Pattern Defines Your Day
Try to develop a uniform if not strict working pattern. This means, knowing about the number of hours you can allocate to family and work. Set limits to the kind of outdoor and indoor tasks you can handle. Evaluate the kind of problems you often face when doing certain kind of tasks. Create a time limit beyond which you will not work, ensuring you have some time for yourself. A work pattern might seem to restrict your productivity first but soon, you will realize that it just a means of better introspection, realizing your limitations and an aid for working more systematically.


Follow Your Things-to-Do List like a Soldier
You need to prepare a THINGS TO DO list on a daily basis. Ideally, this should be on your phone since this assures privacy and easy, all-time access. List the things in order of priority. Mark tasks that seem urgent and those that cannot be delayed at any cost. More importantly, once you create this list, follow it with sincerity. This is a matter of self-discipline. There is nobody to check whether you are working as per the listed tasks besides you—so, don’t cheat yourself.


Tracking Your Progress Makes Sense
Despite the planning and listing of activities for a day, you are bound to be weighed down with last-minute changes and unexpected developments that can impair your efficiency. So, it makes sense in creating a sort of self-analytical tool. This could be in the form of inserting updates or listing comments against each of the tasks listed above. If you plan to postpone a task, take a moment to write down a reason for it. Create definite time slots for tracking your progress. For instance, you can do a self-check on your progress and the mentioned deadlines every time the clock strikes an even number, i.e. clocking timings that are multiples of 2.


Be Committed Not Over-indulgent
There is a huge difference between being sincere towards your work and being the office donkey. Doing beyond your share of work, taking upon activities delegated to others and reaching out beyond your means to help colleagues are desperate signs of gaining popularity or attention at work. Don’t indulge in tasks that are beyond your realm of responsibilities. If necessary, delegate work and don’t make your work suffer for somebody else’s.


Be Honest With Yourself
Taking upon unrealistic deadlines doesn’t make you the best employee in your organization. It simply points towards your lack of application and the inability to understand the situation. There is difference between challenging yourself and getting hammered. If you find yourself overloaded with deadlines that seem impossible, try to say “No”, seek help of others or re-negotiate the deadlines. (Work Life, MensXP.com)

Managing Negative Emotions at Work

Managing Negative Emotions at Work

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Learning to manage, that is, to integrate your emotions is one of the most important practical lessons that we can learn with regard to boosting self-esteem.

 Many conflicts, unspoken as well as spoken, are difficult to handle because of low self-esteem. Nothing prompts us to feel worse and to be less productive at work than feeling trapped by our own emotions. Self-doubt and defensiveness lead to fault finding, resentment, and in business terms low productivity. Not the best recipe for business success! If you don’t feel good about yourself, your service to others isn’t going to be very good either.

Lack of Self Esteem Leads to Emotional Burnout

When you do not come from a point of self esteem, you can find yourself embroiled in all sorts of upsets which are wasteful of your time and destructive of your energy. They can actually make you feel ill or certainly exhausted. You are likely to have experienced this with an increased pace and pressure of work nowadays. More emotions of anger and helplessness provoked and a desperate attempt is made either to control them, often by denying them, or expressing them in an outburst. Emotions suppressed at work are more dangerous because they are more likely to erupt when very strenuously denied under the cover of being neutral they often explode at the wrong time.

Accept all your feelings

Upset feelings of one member of the staff or between people at work waste more time and resources than anything else. Rather than bottling up your feelings, be aware within yourself which emotions you are experiencing. For example that and profitable feeling in your stomach is not what you had for lunch but was caused by your reaction to what the person who you were having lunch with was saying! As far as you can, always acknowledged to feel what you are feeling- for example, up isolated, angry, sad, frustrated. Then you can decide if it is appropriate to communicate your feelings. Sometimes it is and sometimes it’s not what is important is that you’ll relax, let yourself in your feelings, communicate, if appropriate, and take steps that you feel at important to put in place.

Take Charge of Your Emotions – Don’t pretend to be ‘Neutral’

Renumber that you cannot dictate how other people behave. While you cannot accept bad behavior, what will help you most is to be in charge of your own emotions, up to be able to feel them and let them go. The more you pretend to yourself that you are not feeling anything or that you are neutral, the longer these emotions will linger and the more exhausted and distracted you will feel as you suppress them. To boost your self-esteem, accept your feelings rather than denying suppressing them or expressing them inappropriately.

Workout Basics Every Man Should Know

Workout Basics Every Man Should KnowANUBHAV KAPOORin

Gymming and working-outhave become the buzzwords in contemporary lifestyles that stress upon being fit.

Yes, fitness does require daily exercising but it can be achieved only when the zeal to exercise is combined with some basic, gymming essentials. This is vital to keep you safe from common, gymming injuries. Some of these workout basics have been explained below:

Gym Harder but SmarterManagement gurus often stress upon working smart at the office and not like a donkey. The same rule applies to working-out. This principle is based upon decades of observation where it has been seen that people who work-out without paying attention to their body’s endurance level risk serious injuries. Such folks are also more prone togymming fatigue. This refers to a state of mentally and physically disliking exercising. Gymming excessively doesn’t add to muscle gains. Remember to wear comfortable and not fashionable clothes when exercising. Choose gym apparel not by its brand but by judging its ability to contribute towards safety and comfort.

Understand Exercising for Bulking & Toning

You need to establish your gymming goals. After the first, few weeks of understanding your way around the gym, it is time to draw a schedule in coherence with your exercising goals. For instance, if you want to bulk-up, you need to lift heavier, for short durations and with lesser reps. If you want to get more toned or just shape-up, you need to do more reps, with lesser load and use longer, exhausting sets. For bulking-up, the best rep range is between 4 and 8. For toning, the recommended rep range is between 8 and 12.

When & How to Eat Around Workout

Even if you are working-out to lose fat, you need to have some sort of a kickstart before you enter the gym. This can be a slice of bread or a banana or a few nuts. If you are into heavy lifting, you need to go heavy on complex carbs before you start exercising, hydrate yourself during workouts and gorge on proteins & carbs post-workout. Your post-workout meal cannot be very light under any circumstances or you risk losingcritical, muscle mass. Low-fat milk, a few slices of multi-grain bread and egg whites are just about perfect for giving your body the much needed nutrition.

Keep Challenging Yourself

Don’t get too comfortable within a range of exercises that you have mastered. In order to increase your fitness and make build more muscle, your body needs to be challenged. This means trying out different exercises, different exercising stances and increasing your weight range.

For Overall Fitness, Indulge More in Compound Exercises

It is easy to understand why exercises like deadlifts and weighed squats are recommended for increasing your overall fitness levels—these are Compound Exercises. They are called so because they engage various muscle groups during every rep. This means more muscular exertion and burning more calories, per rep. Also referred to as Multi-Joint Exercises, these are recommended for providing a bigger range of motion and involving nearly every part of the body. This creates the biggest scope for greater, uniform muscle gain.

Cardio is Essential but Time it Smartly

Don’t forget that cardiovascular fitness is the most critical part of exercising for gaining stamina. More stamina also means an increased ability to lift weights. This also ensures faster recovery after workouts. However, time your cardio sessions well. Don’t indulge in heavy cardio if you are into lifting heavy weights. Cardio is best done towards the end of your workout schedule since it tends to tire you quickly. Cardio is also essential for working-out the joints that support your gymming load.

Stretching Before Workout is Good, Stretching During & After is Even Better

Yeah, most of know about the importance of warming-up before working-out to loosen-up our body and avoid injuries. However, stretching during and after the workout, particularly if it includes lifting very heavy weights, is equally beneficial. This fact is unknown to many people. This is one of the lesser-preached gymming tips that can prevent a host of workout injuries and help your muscles recover faster. (Health,MensXP.com)