While our field team is working hard to ensure your home is safe during this crisis, most of our home office team are working from home. Like many of you are, we are learning to navigate our new reality. Our homes look completely different today than they did a month ago. Our kids are at home, zoom meetings now occur at the dining room table, we are eating every meal at home and it's hard to stay productive with everyone at home.

To stay productive and distract ourselves from the daily news, we recommend the following 5 tips:

  1. Plant a garden

You can use some items you already have in your homes to create a vegetable garden. Green onions, lettuce, garlic, basil, celery, and even avocados are easy to regrow using scraps. HGTV describes how to get started here.

  1. Learn a new skill

When is a better time to learn a new skill? As many of us shelter in place, there has been an explosion of free online resources to learn anything from a new language to painting landscapes to sewing surgical masks. Want to improve your professional skills? Schools like the General Assembly and Linkedin learning offer free online classes in subjects such as customer service, excel, project management, and more. The possibilities are endless.

  1. Conduct a family Olympics

Who can hula-hoop the longest? Stack more plastic cups? Name the most state capitals? Since the 2020 games are postponed, challenge your family to compete in games for both the body and mind to see who will take home the gold. Alternatively, play a different game each night and have a gold medalist of the day.

  1. Wash your windows, oven, and dryer

Now that the novelty of everyone being home has worn off, it's time to get down to business. Tackling those time-consuming projects around the house now will make more time for you to enjoy your usual activities when the crisis is over.

  1. Check your ceilings for stains, evidence of a roof leak

Speaking of maintaining productivity while you are home, why not have Dr. Roof fix that leak you never have time to handle? Our field team is hard at work to ensure your safety and can likely conduct your consultation and repair without even entering your home.