A good portion of what I accomplish is done from home. I'd say my two biggest tricks to productivity are drinking tea and normal morning hygiene.
Coffee buzzes me up a bit too much. I know tea has caffeine as well, but it seems to be a better all day kind of hot drink. As for the hygiene, I find that getting up in the morning and showering and brushing my teeth puts me in work mode as opposed to shuffling over to my computer in boxers and pretending to work. Those are the days when I post 20x before noon hour.
Another thing is background noise. I prefer listening to Jim Rome, but when I do, I spend half the morning distracted. If I have a serious amount of work to do, I put my TV on channel 4 and let the fruity instrumental music play.
Another thing that increases my productivity is cleanliness. I'm a total neat freak so if there are dishes on the counter or beer cans on the coffee table, I'll clean them up before I start working because if I don't, I see them out of the corner of my eye and it nags at me.
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