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Heather Bestel - shedworking tip of the month

This month, Shedworking's Calm Editor Heather Bestel asks, are you a Busy Bee?

Shedworking means that you have to motivate yourself to get your daily tasks done. But do you ever find that you’ve been working all day without making the tiniest of dents in your to-do list? We can fill our whole work day with busyness but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve been productive. Here are our seven steps to getting things done:

1. Think about what you want to accomplish

2. Set a reward for yourself (this could be a snack, a coffee break, a wander round the garden) this will keep you motivated and inspired.

3. Shut out any distractions – switch on the answer machine and switch off facebook and twitter

4. Start small with short periods of time (like 30-45 mins)

5. Focus on only that activity

6. Keep going until you achieve it

7. Celebrate with your reward - then you can set your next priority.

More stressbusting advice from Heather at her site here.

Tania Hershman: shedworker

Bristol-based author Tania Hershman, currently the writer-in-residence in the Science Faculty at Bristol University, has recently become a shedworker (see her blog for more details and 'before' and 'after' photos of her writing shed).

It's an interesting build: there was already a shed in situ and they simply moved all of the contents out and brought in a builder to spruce it up a little and insulate it. Pictured above you can see Tania's inspirational Einstein poster and collections of short stories (she is the founder and editor of The Short Review). Particularly interesting is that Simon her builder built her a special area where she can work standing up.
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Garden2office expands further into Europe

Garden2office is now supplying garden offices (kits of the 3.8 x 3.8sqm Sportskabin) to shedworkers in the Netherlands. Above is a demo model from a recent Dutch home and garden show.
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In The Shed: Expo shed stand

Nicola Brown recently took her In The Shed graphic design business on tour to the Shropshire E-commerce Expo and set up a marvellous shedworking-themed stand. You can also see Nicola towards the end of this video about the Expo.

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MicroStructures (screencast)

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Garden offices and arcadian links

Integrating the garden office into the garden is high on many shedworker's list of priorities. Here's a nice example from Belleweather, plus a line drawing below showing a basic concept with a garden office building on one end and a gazebo on the other for sunny shedworking days: the arcadian link between provides pleasant dappled light.

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