Working From Home: The Multitasking Power of a Blue Tooth

June 10, 2007

 

Flickr Photo Credit: Thunder Child 5

You won’t often hear me say this about a product, but this thing changed my life.

Before getting my blue tooth, business calls performed while working at home involved either the accomplishment of not much else, or the development of head and neck problems (along with a fair amount of frustration) as I tried to grasp the phone between shoulder and ear while working on filing, keyboarding, cleaning or dinner prep. I’ve lost count of the number of times the cordless and cell phones nearly ended up in a full washing machine or worse yet, the toilet bowl. Not good.

Enter, my blue tooth. My head, shoulders and back are once again in alignment, and I can easily pull a colleague’s file while on the phone with them. With my increased work efficiency, extra time is freed up for money saving endeavors and the renewed exercise schedule ‘ve been wanting to get back to for years.

Blue tooths are helpful on the home front as well. It’s a completely safe way to accept a cell call from the highway when someone from home remembers a needed item after you’ve left for a shopping trip. It also makes a huge difference at the grocery store, leaving both hands free to pull out and organize coupons, cross items off your shopping list and lift large, bulk purchase items in and out of your cart.

I realize these are a bit of a cash outlay. But if you make a concerted effort to use it to streamline your home economics and business tasks, it might pay for itself quicker than you think.