What do you do if your motivation and productivity wane while working remotely in the non-profit sector?

Best to have a 'week at a glance' calendar. This could be either in hard copy format or online. Before your week starts, plan which day to attack which item. When the actual priorities shift, you need to change and straddle the parts of scheduling which need the most pressing service. Remember hearing about the practice of 'disjointed incrementalism' along the way ? Break down parts of the job to palatable, digestible fragments which you can execute with better results. Oftentimes, things fall into place without monumental efforts. Sometimes waiting can get you far superior results than headlong immersion.

Learn to phrase queries with best syntax, keywords, or key phrases, or jargon terms which many would be pre-emptive from using. Plug in the above data-bits in the app(s) of your choice. Determine if the drawn results will assist your quest, or merely would go by the wayside as tangential or just plain irrelevant. Strip-out in an edit process which portions are usable to achieve your goal(s). That ancient phrase, '..Let your fingers do the walking..' makes the best sense now, even more than from the 'bad old days' of fifty to sixty years ago and beyond.

Starting here with an conclusion: Don't be selfless! You have one life to live, personal relations to keep up, your health to maintain and your rest for overall recharge. Without these facets being fine-tuned, you cannot and will not do your best. Any lack of personal upkeep might easily be seriously misinterpreted.

When I started T&F, it was with a vision to be completely remote. In the process I’ve noticed that for some team members motivation can wane off. What I have found helpful is engaging them in conversations outside the scope of the work through groups texts, current topics, their interests and more. We schedule group calls, one on one sessions and more to talk, brainstorm and reconnect with why we wanted to work together.