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How To Keep Your Brain Awake During Long Office Hours
3 min readJul 16, 2023
- Step Outside — Just 5 minutes outside will often do you more good than drinking another coffee. Get some fresh air in, any way you can.
- Drink More Water — Refresh your body by revitalizing it with the “life blood”. A glass of water is enough to start your metabolism and get your body working more than it usually does sitting all day.
- Stretch — Speaking of sitting a lot, get up every once in a while and just stretch. Nothing big but just activating as many muscles as possible.
- Relax Your Eyes — A lot of tension that builds up throughout the day rests around the eyes. Take a moment to relax your eyes and forehead. Close your eyes while doing this and then abruptly open them after about a minute for a small jolt of energy.
- Celebrate In Your Chair — Get excited active and motivated, all while sitting down! You can have a party wherever you are as long as you start to MOVE MORE! Wiggle around a bit, move your arms more and generally do bigger movements to get your blood pumping. Bonus Points for throwing a dance party to whatever music you listen to.
- Start A Completely Different Task — Repetition often kills energy as it becomes an automated process. If you can, try to liven your day up by changing what you work on whenever you (literally) get tired of your…
