So I’ve been working remotely full-time for around six years now. Sometimes it’s the best thing ever. I mean, most people who imagine working from home as this perfect situation where you never have to deal with the pains of commuting, office drama, or distractions ever again. Pants optional.

Sometimes, however, working from home can become something akin to solitary confinement. Sure, you can catch up with your coworkers via Slack, Google Hangouts, and what-not—but it really doesn’t replace face-to-face human interaction.

You start to actually miss water-cooler conversations. You miss donut Fridays. The act of driving somewhere, anywhere—where before was a grueling arduous commute—has now become something that’s actually fun.

It’s easy to become restless. It’s also easy to become distracted, too. No more are the days of watching youtube with the fear of your superior catching you in the act. Hell, you don’t even need to work in an office atmosphere anymore if you don’t want to. You can plop your pajama wearing ass in front of your tv in the living room, put on an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale—because anxiety and despair sounds fun—and happily click away on your keyboard getting work done.

Before you know it, you’ve now gotten yourself all caught up in Offred’s Orwellian dilemma. Your cat is now sitting on your keyboard because you can’t pull your eyes and emotions away from the TV.

That’s the thing with working remote; it’s super easy to get hopelessly distracted.

I’ve learned a couple things working remotely for so long now. In fact, I can’t really imagine working in another office environment ever again.

Anyway, here are a couple of things that have helped me stay focused working remote.