I am one of those lucky people who gets to work from home. Telecommuting is great but there is definitely the problem of feeling like I’m always at work whenever I am home. One of the things that I have found really helps with this is to use scented candles in my home.

Aromatherapy candles are designed to evoke different feelings depending upon the scent that is being released. There are some scents that are useful to making me feel more energized and productive. And then there are some scents that are designed to be more relaxing. What I have found is that putting energizing scents in my work space and calming scents in my rest areas greatly helps to delineate the work and relaxation areas of my home.

Of course, this requires more than just scented jar candles. It also requires the ability to physically separate some of the space that I have to carve out an area that is just for work. Combined with the changing scent in this area, I find that I can be fairly effective in keeping work and home separate even though I work from home. Maybe this is a trick that would work for other telecommuters as well.

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