 Hi, this is George Cal and I'm here with one of my virtual co-workers Patti. Hi Patti Thanks for being here. So I'm gonna let her do her own work While I continue recording this so I'm gonna put my mic off here in this screen So y'all can still hear me on the screencast so what virtual co-working is is where I arrange with another person they can be anywhere in the world any time zone and They are working on their own projects their own work their own business while I am also working on my own projects and work in my own business and even though we are working on separate projects the fact that we are here at the computer doing our own work and we see the other person doing the work has a powerful accountability effect that is hard to Explain until you actually experience it. So if you've never experienced virtual co-working I highly recommend that you give it a try There is a website called focus mate which helps you to easily find a virtual co-worker and I'll link them the Website in the notes of this video. You can Google focus mate. It's one word and When you arrange with your co-worker you'll come into this room that looks like this and if your co-worker is Making some typing sounds that you don't want to hear you can mute her From your side by moving your mouse over her video and clicking on the mute icon, which is here Okay, so now I've muted her audio so I can't hear her audio now You might want to talk mention to your partner in advance that you prefer to work silently So you're gonna mute her audio or she can mute herself You can see that I've muted myself using the mic on mic off button down here I've already clicked on it. So it's a slash through it. So that means my mic is off for Patty She can't hear me right now Even though you all can hear on screencast and then the other thing I've done is I've clicked on the the the chat button on the bottom right which opens up the chat panel with me and Patty and Typically the way that I work with virtual co-workers and this is what the website focus mate recommends is that you actually Chat in the beginning just a little bit to say hello and to To type what you're gonna be working on for the time being and once you finish that project You can type the next action you're working on and just kind of an ongoing. They might do the same thing But let me show you how I arrange my my computer windows For virtual co-working because I find that a lot of people don't realize that they can make their computer screen More productive for virtual core. So first thing that I do is I shrink my browser window To to have some space on the right hand side of the screen So let me show you how I do that just click and drag either the top right or the top left of your browser windows So click and drag this and I'm just gonna make about that much space on the right hand side And then the second thing I do is I make this video window a Separate window video tab so I I click and drag the tab out click and drag the tab out And then that makes it into a separate window and then I rearrange this window from the bottom left I click and drag the bottom left So that I'm able to see the chat and I'm able whoops so now I can't see the chat So I want to be able to see the chat the full chat and to be able to see Patty or at least some of my virtual co-worker can see her there and And then I can of course rearrange this window so I can fully see her there I don't have to see myself But I can see her and I could whoops Put that back here I can still see her and I can still have enough space on this most of my screen is still be able to work on my own Work here and the second thing the next thing I do is I I go to what's called tomato timer tomato dash timer comm which is a way to Kind of keep myself focused in 25 minute chunks of work, which I find really helpful You may do it differently. There is another Free timer called timer tab timer dash tab comm which allows you to set This is the seconds This is the minute so you could you if you prefer to work in terms of you know 45 minutes or whatever you can do type 45 minutes there and click on start countdown and And then start it that way and there's there's you know It gives you a timer right in the right in the tab there But I prefer to my tomato timer It's really simple comes with 25 minutes right away and I can also take a short break so what I do is I click and drag this time tomato timer and I put it on the side and again I shrink it so that I'm only seeing the 20 I have to scroll down here so I can see the 25 minutes Okay shrink that a little bit and then I click and drag this so that it's here my co-workers there And when I'm ready to work in 25 minute chunk I click on Pomodoro again to start the timer and then I work focused in a focus way for 25 minutes on whatever it is I'm working on and once the timer goes off I can click on short break To take a five minute break and at that point. I will let my you know my co-worker know Break press enter And that way She knows that I'll be right back And once the break is finished I come back and I remind her again what I'm working on and I go from there So I highly recommend that you give Focus mate and and virtual co-working a try. It's been really helpful and I use it almost every day actually when I'm working Whenever I have a slot when I'm not meeting with a client or something like that. I work on my own projects and anyway, any questions you have you can comment below this video or Give it a try and maybe I will see you on focus mate as well. Take care