Mar 17, 2020
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Good morning, everybody. I was on with Jim Polito who was sitting in his kitchen under self-quarantine because he recently traveled overseas. We discussed some of the ways people can make this new remote work, work for them and keep their employer safe. So, here we go with Jim Polito.
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Craig
And you take a 10-minute break, and then you sit down again, set
yourself another 20-minute goal, and get it done. It is amazingly
effective. And I want people to think of social media a little bit
differently when you're working from home. That 10-minute break.
You could go on social media because that might be the only way you
have contact with another person. There are some of my top tips
Craig
There are some of my top tips with Mr. Jim Polito this morning. You
notice none of them had to do with security because I think the
most significant issues people have when working from home,
typically are the mental issues. So that's kind of what I went over
with Jim this morning. If you want to attend one of my webinars,
these free webinars I'm doing all week this week, probably into
next week as well. Make sure you sign up go to Craig Peterson comm
slash subscribe. By the way, Jim is just back From Italy in
self-quarantine in his kitchen, it yeah, it Yeah, I don't want you
to think about that too much. Okay, here we go.
Unknown Speaker 1:12
Joining us now is our good friend and tech chalk guru, Craig
Peterson. Good morning, sir.
Unknown Speaker 1:19
Hey, good morning, Jim. Yeah, I've been doing this work-at-home
thing now for well over 20 years, and my wife and I have learned a
lot of lessons. I've learned a lot of lessons about productivity
and tools. And, of course, you mentioned the security side of it,
which is a big deal. And so what I started doing this week is I
started on Sunday, I held a kind of free for all webinar where I
invited people to, and we spent a couple of hours together. In
fact, in this webinar, we talked about people's situations. What
the issues were. I'm going to be doing it again today. I think what
I'm going to try and do is something at about three o'clock this
afternoon, and then probably at about seven o'clock this evening,
and I'll do it two or three more times this week, just going over
what tools can help them. One of the tricks I've learned over the
years? What do you need to worry about from a security standpoint?
You know, when should you be using that laptop? When should you
remote to a desktop at work? Why is the remote desktop one of the
most prominent security exploits known to man? And how can you work
around that? So obviously, Jim, as usual, this is just all for
free. I'm not trying to, you know, beat you down and sell you
something. If you want my services, that's fine. I'm even offering
15-minute calls with anybody that needs some tech support to help
them try and figure stuff out, and all of that you can get Just go
to my website that Craig Peterson dot com make sure you sign up
there. It's on the homepage and every page. If you scroll down a
little bit, you'll see a pop up at the top of the screen and just
put your name and email address in there. As Jim's always telling
everybody, I'm not one to spam you. But I do want to keep you guys
informed. I am offering this for free. I have courses that you can
buy that go into more depth, but I do take time to answer
everyone's question during these webinars. I got a lot of great,
positive feedback.
Jim
We're talking with Craig Peterson, our tech talk guru. Now, Craig,
what's probably the most important thing people should do while
working from home. Now I know our company has set up, what are
these VPNs and all this stuff? What's the most important thing
people should do?
Craig
Well, also, as part of the webinar, I went into some details about
why VPNs' can make it worse for you and your security for your
business. So don't think that a VPN is a panacea. All those paid
VPN Services that you hear advertised on the radio are not going to
help you get into the office. They're designed to provide a little
bit of security. But, in a more direct answer to your question,
what's the most important thing? I think personally, with over 20
years of experience doing this, that it has to do with separation.
So President Trump is right. You have to separate yourself from
your usual living area if you can. All separating has to mean is
something that's going to give you that psychological hint. That's
going to help with your subconscious too. Okay, I'm sitting in this
chair facing this direction in this part of the room. That helps a
lot to train your body as to what you should be doing. Then you
also need to get a whip and, and use that lightly on any family
members that decide to walk-in because now look at mom and dad are
home now so I can just walk in anytime and ask any question, right?
In the honey-do list, I'm going both ways. So make sure they
understand, hey, I'm working to leave me alone. Here's another
thing that I found to be extremely helpful when working from home.
And that is to use a technique that came from Italy. It's called
the Pomodoro Technique. You might want to look that up that's
Italian, very poorly pronounced on my part.
Jim
Italian for Tomato, and tomatoes are the best.
Craig
Yeah, exactly. Think about you and I, were younger, our moms had
these kitchen timers shaped like tomatoes, or maybe you had an egg
one. You twist the top of it, and it was a 30-minute timer. The
Pomodoro technique is simple enough, and you set yourself a
15-minute or 20-minute goal. 20 -minute seems to be optimal, at
least for me. Okay, I'm going to do this particular piece of
research to get this part done, right. It's something you can do in
20 minutes. You set that timer and let it run for 20 minutes. When
it goes off, the task over whether or not it is done. You finished
that work for this time period. You can extend a little bit if
you'd like to, but no more than about 10 minutes, get up and walk
around. It is time to go and get your glass of water, to go and
chat with the spouse or kids, whatever it might be. You take a
10-minute break, and then you set down again, set yourself another
20-minute goal, and get it done. It is amazingly effective. I want
people to think of social media a little bit differently when
you're working from home. That 10- minute break. You could go on
social media because that might be the only way you have contact
with another person if you're at home working alone. It's not
necessarily an evil thing. Just make sure you don't get sucked into
it. They design social media to be sticky and to keep you around.
So those are the big ones. Also, again, if you're on my email list,
just go to Craig Peterson dot com and sign up. I'll be going
through the more technical side of working at home. What you can
do, what you shouldn't do, to make working at home, work for you
without creating problems not just for you, but security problems
to the business's network.
Jim
All right, Craig, this is great. I know we wanted to touch on the
coronavirus, not the virus itself, but I know included in the
information you'll be sending to people. So you add my name to this
number,
Craig
855 385 5553. I'll be sending out a text to everybody on and texts
today as well. Just text Jim to 855 385 5553
Jim
Standard data and tax rates apply. As you know, Craig Peterson will
always take care of you. He is a calm and reassuring voice and
presence in all the chaos. Craig, Thank you so much. Well, Catch
you next week.
Craig
Take care. Bye-bye.
Jim
All righty. Okay when we return
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