Work from home or work remotely now? Wondering how to be productive working remotely? I’ve got 11 Remote work productivity tips for digital nomads that I use to stay productive and keep up with work on the road. Applying these digital nomad productivity tips means you’ll get more done in less time. YES, you can WORK AND TRAVEL ANYWHERE while staying productive, organized, and focused! Use these remote work tips and tricks to 100 x Productivity While Traveling!
With over 9 years of experience working from home (after quitting my job in finance) I wanted to film this video to help you learn How to Master Working Remotely in 2024 with my Productivity Hacks for Digital Nomads! Because I know There are a ton of challenges you’ll face with remote work as a digital nomad. i.e. How will you remain productive and make sure you don’t overwork yourself?
Staying productive as a digital nomad isn’t easy— balancing work and travel is one of the hardest parts of the digital nomad lifestyle. Luckily, there are several digital nomad tips and tricks you can use to get your work done faster, giving you more time to enjoy your destination. Here are my Top 11 Work from Home Productivity Tips (and MY strategy for How to Not Go Crazy when traveling from the condo to hotel to Airbnb, or even the RV!)
Let me know your best work from home tips to increase productivity and be productive working from home or while traveling in the comments!
Productivity Tips For Working Remotely As A Digital Nomad
- Intro (My Story)
- Tip 1 – Gear
- Tip 2 – Systems
- Tip 3 – Alone Time
- Tip 4 – Batching
- Tip 5 – Up Early or Late
- Tip 6 – Automation
- Tip 7 – Outsourcing
- Tip 8 – Time Off
- Tip 9 – Saying No
- Tip 10 – Downsizing
- Tip 11 – Program
- Review
Video Transcript:
00:00:00 I wanted to look like I was being productive today with these glasses so as I’ve mentioned in the past I live a mobile life and have a mobile business as a digital Nomad because I live my life online and I’m able to access it from anywhere as long as I can get on the Internet or have some kind of data coverage but no matter where I am if I’m here in the RV or doing the van life thing or at the condo and Airbnb or a hotel I can live and work remotely as long as I follow these tips for staying productive as a digital Nomad and
00:00:41 running my business and life online so the top 11 work from home productivity tips for digital Nomads and hacks that I use to stay organize while working remotely that I’m going to share with you today are number one gear and accessories and Essentials two staying organized with systems three alone time four batching five waking up early are staying up late six Automation and scheduling seven Outsourcing eight taking time off nine saying No 10 downsizing and minimizing and 11 having a program so let’s dive in now these are
00:01:13 11 work from home productivity tips that have helped me stay productive organize and focus as a digital Nomad and entrepreneur running my online business on the road and how I’ve been able to master working remotely because if you don’t know my story over 8 years ago I actually quit my job started my own business and it eventually led me into ourv life but when I left that system that 9o5 kind of checklist job that I had where they told me everything about how to stay organized from 9: to 5 and
00:01:49 all the systems and folders and automations that I was supposed to do and who to call I had to figure that out on my own I was my own boss I had to create my own schedule so if you really want freedom of your time you actually actually have to sit down and plan and get focused and organized and use these productivity tips that I’m going to give you that I’ve learned and applied in my own business and Life to stay productive organized and focused oh and if we haven’t officially met I’m blogging Brandy I’m an ex-corporate Kool-Aid
00:02:18 Drinker Born to Be Creator and RV living digital Nomad most of the time but I teach other digital Nomads and rvers and wannabes how to get into the same life how to follow in my footsteps so if that’s sounds like you and that’s resonating please hit the like button below be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications with that little bell icon so you’re notified each and every time I publish a new video kind of like this one by the way I’ve included all of these 11 work from all productivity tips
00:02:47 in my Ultimate Guide to making money online that I’ve put in the description below this video I’ve been talking about in the last couple vide video so if you haven’t booked that up head to the description below this video and pick up my ultimate guide for making money online after this video is over my digital Nomad productivity tip number one when working from home is to have the right gear accessories and Essentials I can’t tell you how many times I work with new students or people come to me and say hey Brandy I want to
00:03:17 be a digital Nomad how do I do this thing and I say okay cool well do you have your laptop do you have your files and folders the first thing that you do when you go to any kind of school or that you’re learning to do something is you have to have that little checklist that you get when you start school and they say have your pen and your paper and your notebooks and your computer and your highlighters a mouse there’s so many things that I went through I talked about having a planner I went through
00:03:42 all of this in a prior video that you can check out below this video after this one’s over obviously of my digital Nomad accessories gear and Essentials and all the things that you need to get set up and actually be productive while you’re working from home if you want to work from home you actually have to have all the the things that you need to work from home to be able to do it productively organized effectively and stay focused productivity hack number two for digital Nomads and how to stay
00:04:11 productive while you roam is to have systems in place to help you stay organized so I stay organized with systems which I referenced in a prior video but I have all of my email and contacts and task calendars calls everything p passwords all in systems to help me stay organized so I wouldn’t be able to run my life online or on the road if I didn’t have these online systems and if I didn’t have these things in place so you can check those out in the link below this video I’ll share a link to that video you can watch
00:04:50 after this video is over productivity hack number three for digital Nomads working from home is to do it alone I love alone time I’m alone right now solo female RV living solo female van life I cannot tell you how much I thrive when I’m alone so quiet time no noise get away whether it’s a day a weekend a week or a month you need a long time as an entrepreneur and if you know me an introvert um I may seem extremely extroverted because I make these videos but believe it or not I get really overwhelmed when there’s lots of
00:05:32 activity and noise and things going on in my life I love this solo female RV life or solo RV life even when you’re with a partner or someone with you it’s still nice to have that time alone because it allows me to make these videos respond to emails create content get my course updated thrive in my own environment and kind of recharge my batteries so if you’ve never heard of like introverted versus extroverted it might be something you might want to look into I have to have a long time so that I can recharge my batteries versus
00:06:06 if I was an extrovert then I would probably need time with people to get that recharge but if I’m around a lot of people I get overwhelmed so I have to have a long time my productivity hack number four for digital Nomads working from home is batching so if you’re not familiar with what batching is it means recording multiple YouTube videos at one time writing several blog posts at one time listing all your products for sale on your website at one time writing all of your emails out taking calls on
00:06:40 certain days ordering all your birthday gifts at one time doing everything at one time what I’ve kind of learned about batching is I followed someone and they told me oh you should batch eight videos at one time so you have two months worth of content going out I’ve tried that I will tell you I get really exhausted if I was to sit down and record like five or six videos videos at one time it is really exhausting you can hear it in my voice so what I’ve learned works for me in batching is I kind of like listen to
00:07:07 my body this week I wrote out a lot of my YouTube videos or I already had kind of had the ideas written out and so over the last month when I’ve come up with these ideas I would put them into my content calendar or my task management system which I talked about in my last video and then I would maybe write out the blog post when I was feeling it so in the morning time I really kind of get into my vibes or if it’s really late at night and so I’ll do all that at one time but I won’t record them I’ll just kind of come up
00:07:35 with the ideas and then one week or one day I might record two or three videos or one week I might record one video so at times I’ve done one video a week if that was what worked for me but I find that gets really stressful so then what I’ll do is I’ll record two or three videos per week and so like right now I have a whole month of content scheduled and going out so I’m not stressed to create content cuz I can’t create content in a stressful environment or when I’m feeling pressured that’s when
00:08:03 my content kind of like loses its creativity should I say my fifth tip for working remotely as a digital Nomad is either waking up early or staying up late you have to be on when everyone else is off now I naturally wake up at 5:00 a.m. but I do not communicate until after 9:00 meaning emails calls texts social media I don’t look get any of that until after 900 a.m. I don’t communicate until after 9:00 a.m. I look at it and if I wanted to get a task done to say write an email to someone I might
00:08:40 write it at 6:00 a.m. or 7: a.m. but I wouldn’t schedule it to actually go out until maybe 1:00 or 4:00 or 5:00 that day because I don’t want to have constant communication coming in when I’m trying to get something done and what will happen if I post on social media or send out an email or publish a YouTube video is I’ll start getting all of these communications in via email text comments likes response on my videos and it will just kind of create this chaos in my head and I can’t create and be productive when I’m having to
00:09:16 communicate that being said I actually will do this on on days and off days so sometimes I might only allow people to schedule calls with me on certain days or like in the afternoons versus morning times depends on your workflow and what works for you and so like I said I either wake up early because the people that are around me don’t wake up till later and I can get things done and so that’s how we sleep when we’re bliing and hanging out and so that way if I want to use my computer while naine
00:09:49 is over here just sleeping away I can sit right here and type on my computer and the dogs can hang out so we also can put this smaller table here but that’s the front of the van up there and my body naturally just wakes up at 5:00 a.m. which works in my favor or not depending on which time on I’m in as a digital Nomad sometimes I might wake up and it’s like 3:00 a.m. but the good thing is if I’m on like the west coast and I wake up at 3:00 a.m. it’s 5 600 a.m. on the east coast and vice versa I can get things done
00:10:30 I just have to be on when everyone else is off or I have to schedule things waking up early or staying up late whichever one is your Vibe sometimes I wake up at 2: or 3:00 a.m. and my little hamster wheels are spinning in my brain I have to like just get something done or I’ll write a blog post I may not post it but I’ll put it in my files or I might come up with an idea for a YouTube video I’ll put it in my phone or I’ll type it out on my computer or I’ll write little notes about it and I’ll just wait
00:10:54 and schedule it to go out later on so my sixth work from home product activity tip for digital Nomads is Automation and scheduling now I try to automate and schedule everything calls calendars meetings task this actually got me fired from my job when I worked in finance or at least one of my jobs which led to a better job and a nice raise I had scheduled all the task all the meetings all the birthdays out in a system called Salesforce but I told you now I use um a system called HubSpot for client
00:11:31 relationship management CRM which I talked about in a Brier video catch in the link below about how they organized online while working remotely I had done this so well that my boss like didn’t need me anymore they would just go in and it would say like hey call this person or hey you have a meeting heling up I had scheduled this out for years to come so I had almost like worked my way out of the business but it did work out in a good way for me because one I got fired and got a better job or laid off
00:12:00 as they call it is a whole another story if you haven’t seen my story be sure to check that out in the link description below it led me to learning what I know now and how I’ve been able to automate and schedule systems in my business as a digital Nomad and keep me productive while I’m roaming and traveling and working on the road tip number seven for working from home and being productive as a digital Nomad is outsourcing Outsourcing means that someone else is doing the work it can be a system or it
00:12:30 can be a person and when I’m talking about Outsourcing I’m talking about meal prep video editing email management laundry cleaning all the different things that I do on a daily basis I write a list out and I say okay is this something that I need to do is this something that I can defer for later on is this something that I can automate is this something that I need to delete or is this something that I can give someone else to be able to do on my behalf so Outsourcing is key key if you want to be a digital Nomad and
00:13:02 especially an entrepreneur and run your own business you cannot do everything yourself at least in the beginning you can but eventually you’re not going to be able to do that and you’re going to get burned out and you’re not going to be able to be happy in this life that you’ve created tip number eight for how to become a digital Nomad and work productive while you’re on the road my productivity tips is taking time off it might sound counterintuitive to take time off as a digital Nomad and entrepreneur who’s RV or on the road all
00:13:30 the time traveling but taking time off would mean staying stationary in one place or taking time off from work related activities I take time off every day after it could be 5 sometimes 9 I’ll stop talking like I said I start talking at 9:00 but I stop talking at 9:00 as well so I take time off and every day is different it depends on the time zone that I am in it depends on the mood and how I feel at night I start to taper off at afterwards I don’t chat um and again it depends on how I feel if I’m busy I
00:14:04 never work the weekends I’m an introvert I mentioned this I need time to recharge my batteries and by taking time off on the weekends and at night it allows me to do that just so you know I don’t like take time off and go party on the weekends or at night that’s not really what I do to recharge my batteries that would actually exhaust me I actually just like spending time alone or with my boyfriend or with my mom or my dogs my grandma it just helps me kind of reenter myself I like to do things that I enjoy
00:14:33 and sometime it could be writing or sometimes I might just create a vlog but I may never post it it just depends on what makes me feel exciting but I do enjoy hanging around real humans from time to time it’s just only the ones that I love in my life and my dogs of course now my ninth productivity tip and working from home productivity tip for digital Nomads is saying no saying no no no no no no when it comes to money sometimes also can have to do with the return on investment of your time I tell
00:15:06 people all the time money does not equal your time your time is valuable and so you have to think if I pay somebody else to do this that could be worth my time or saying no to certain opportunities saying no to business deals saying no to jobs saying no to people and parties and places and things and vacations I had to say no this weekend because I wanted to go see my boyfriend who left earlier this week because he’s going on a trip and I kept all the dogs but he’s actually like flying out on a trip and I
00:15:42 was like okay well I don’t want to be trapped in the city I want to be out in the RV where I can get some things done alone but it was really tempting for me to want to go back to the city and he was like hey let me know if you want to come back this weekend I really had to say no it was really hard but I knew that I needed this time alone and so I’ve also had to learn to say no during business deals I got a lot of people that come to me and say oh but I was just going to make this money over here
00:16:06 well you have to understand saying no can mean something that you maybe want to do but it’s not worth your time and in the beginning yes sometimes you’re going to say yes to things and get paid for it minimal when you’re an entrepreneur but eventually you’re going to learn the value of your time and how to say no that’s not worth my time I did a five video series for a company that found me on you YouTube they really like some tutorial videos that I did and they asked me if I would do some for them but
00:16:34 what happened was I had to learn an entire new system and do these videos for them and I did it over Christmas and my dog was dying and it was just a miserable event and so honestly for the money that I made even though it was hundreds of dollars per video but it ended up being thousands in the thousands of dollars it was not worth my time I don’t care I was in Vegas I was with my dog I was with my boyfriend and we had this amazing trip plan and I was sitting there making these videos for someone someone else and having to work
00:17:00 when I really didn’t need that money right then and so again while I talk about budgeting and getting your whole life together so you’re able to say no to these opportunities when they come up because you’re like hey I don’t need that money I’m not chasing the dollars I’m chasing my passion and learning how to turn it into a profit and value my time return on investment of your time as well so my 10th tip for working in being productive as a digital Nomad is to minimize and downsize your life or
00:17:37 what I like to call becoming a minimalist so becoming a digital Nomad means becoming a minimalist and if you know me and you know my story then you know that I really don’t have a lot of things I told you my office setup that I shared with you and the digital Nomad must haves but other than that it would be my clothes my toiletries which are very limited I don’t wear makeup um if you know my story I I stopped wearing makeup after some things that happened in my life and what I learned about the system and my
00:18:09 body but I’m very simple so I have a very simple life it took me about a year to downsize I made some videos about how I downsize which you can check out in the description below this video and my story as well but I talked about what all I did to get rid of the things in my life from donating them to to bartering them to selling them I sold a lot of things to be able to fund my new RV life and digital Nomad life and travels and I gave up a lot of the things that I thought that I needed that I really
00:18:40 didn’t need so there’s a lot of things that you probably have in your life that you can either sell and get rid of donate barter or just say hey these are the things I’m essentially going to need so I always say like have a pile that you keep have a pile that you sell have a pile that you donate and then have a pile that you trash downsizing and becoming a minimalist is also what helps me stay focused and organized and be productive while I’m working on the road I can’t work if there’s tons of clutter
00:19:06 and things going on in my life I told you chaos I’m an introvert so downsizing and minimizing is not just physical things but also my digital life and doing a declutter as well now my 11th I don’t have any more fingers but tip for becoming a digital Nomad and being productive while you’re working from home is to have a program having a program as your own being your own boss and being a digital NAD and working and traveling is essential when I’m talking about program I’m talking about a plan a guide A system that you follow as well
00:19:41 as a community to support you and a coach I haven’t really shared this a lot and I would like to share more of this but I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars traveling all over the country even out of the country to meet coach es and people that I have idolized on YouTube and on TV and people that have really taught me a lot of the things that I know mainly about business if you don’t know my story I was in a really bad accident and so I really had to focus on my business versus sharing a lot about my RV life and so that kind of
00:20:18 took me internal but I flew all over to meet these people I invested in their systems I invested in them to teach me what they knew so now you know my 11 work from home productivity tips and hacks for digital Nomads to stay productive how I stay productive focus and organize on the road while I’m running my business as a digital Nomad and entrepreneur so I want you to comment below this video and let me know which one of these 11 tips resonated with you the most which one have you tried which one are you going to start
00:20:50 doing first tip number one was to get all your gear Essentials and accessories that you’re going to need to work reot Le and be a dig one I’m add number two was to stay organized with systems three was a long time four was batching five was waking up earlier staying up late six was Automation and scheduling seven Outsourcing eight taking time off nine saying No 10 downsizing and minimizing and 11 of course is having a program a coach an a system a community that helps you along the surle and something to
00:21:24 follow if you didn’t remember in the beginning of this video I told you all these productivity tips as well as some of my tips for making money online and where you can find jobs to make money online or in my Ultimate Guide to making money online from anywhere which you can pick up below this video as well and check that out now if you enjoy these 11 tips for staying productive working from home as a digital Nomad and how I’m able to stay focused organized and productive on the road and working then please be
00:21:55 sure to hit that like button below and if you haven’t already subscribe to this Channel and tap that little bell icon so you’re notified each and every time I publish a new video on that note until the next video be sure to check out the description below this video where all the goodies and links to the videos that I mentioned the download working with me all that fun stuff is in the description below this video that’s where I put all the links so if you’re not checking the description you’re missing all of the good stuff but until
00:22:27 then I’m blogging Brandy thanks for watching I love you and I’ll see you in the next [Music] video [Music] oh
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