Feed your mind
Self-care is vital for proper mental function.
- Get plenty of rehydration, a healthy diet, and regular exercise to keep blood flowing to your brain.
- Eat healthy snacks throughout the day to keep your energy levels consistent.
- Get enough sleep.
- Work hard and play hard. Work hard at work, but then have intentional off-periods where you're relaxing and rejuvenating.
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MORE IDEAS FROM A Neuroscientist Shares 5 Ways to Hack Productivity
Our brain can change throughout our lifetime, in relation to factors like behavior, process, and environment. It means we can still improve ourselves with strategic and incremental changes to our daily routines.
For example, you can increase your ability to focus for more extended periods of time by training your attention.
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Most people have little pockets of time throughout the day, between meetings and calls and emails, with 15 minutes here, and 30 minutes there. To perform at your best depends on simple time management hacks.
- Set aside one or two times a day to check and respond to all your messages and emails, then close your inbox.
- Try and structure your day in one-to two-hour chunks of focused work.
- Introduce a clear protocol for colleagues to contact one another in case of an actual emergency.
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To improve your mental ability, you have to understand its natural peaks and drops throughout the day. It can be different for every person, so pay attention to what time of the day your mind is functioning at its best.
If you find it difficult to see what time of day your mind is functioning best, keep a productivity log. At two-hour intervals, write down your physical and mental status. You'll find a pattern of peak performance or sluggishness.
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Our brains are continually changing and learning, making it possible to change and manipulate depending on what we're exposed to.
Think strategically about what environment you work best in and protect yourself from any other distractions that could decrease your performance. Intentionally create an environment to do specific types of activities. That way, your mind has a preset expectation associated with each situation.
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RELATED IDEA
It's the practice of planning out every moment of your day in advance and dedicating specific time “blocks” for certain tasks and responsibilities.
When you fill your calendar with the tasks and things you want to do, it’s harder for others to steal your time.
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- Apply constraints and stick to them: to tabs open in your browser, notebooks, magazines etc.
- Use small storage spaces: Less room means less room for clutter.
- Set time aside to clean, sort, and discard every single month.
- Clean your desktop at the end of every workday so to-do items don’t linger and you’ve got a clean slate to start with the next day.
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Global companies, from the UK to the US, Japan to South Korea, have recently rolled out mandatory work-from-home policies amid the spread of the new virus.
Working from home will become the new normal for many. Some employees will be working from home for the first time, and need to figure out how to stay on task.
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