Re: Work from home
I spend so much time in meetings or needing to focus on my work that I do not even get to turn on the radio (or any other music source) for audio distraction. I end up using a fan as a white noise generator.
I DEFINITELY do not have the television on, nor do I have my home computer within range. I even turn my cell phone on silent, or even set it across the room, to keep from letting it distract me.
I use only a regular-sized thermal coffee cup with a (relatively) spill-proof lid. The spill-proof lid is for reasons that should be obvious (and this is VERY necessary), and the regular size is to force me to have to get up now and then to go to the kitchen and refill it, so that I do get up from the desk from time to time. The trick in not letting the kitchen distract me is to ONLY visit the coffee-making station, not the fridge or the pantry or the stove or the microwave or... well, you get the point. It takes practice, but you'll learn.