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The Best Productivity Hack Is Right Outside Your Door
Visualize Nature
Guided Imagery or visualization is a powerful technique to boost your productivity and mood.
The mind can make the body relaxed. We all practice guided imagery in a negative sense all the time, by worrying. If the same technique is used positively, and visualize beautiful imagery of nature, it can lower our anxiety levels and boost our performance
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Back To Nature
City life is filled with noise, traffic, disruptions, and an unending stream of stress-inducing disturbances. The average American also spends 90% of their time indoors, away from nature.
Modern research proves that being in nature can restore us, physically and mentally, making us rejuvenated and deeply relaxed.
Forest Bathing
Forest Bathing is a practice of immersing yourself in the woods to relax and recharge.
The benefits of forest bathing include stress reduction, enhanced immune function, improved sleep, and relief from pain and anxiety.
Nature Inside The Office
- If you are perpetually stuck in your office, adding indoor plants to your workspace can make you calm and more productive.
- The Sun is required for our mental state of awakeness and for producing vitamin D. Modern offices have fitness centers, swanky cafeterias, and other amenities but lack natural light.
- Even a window that provides a view to nature can work wonders for your mood and productivity.
Visualize Nature
Guided Imagery or visualization is a powerful technique to boost your productivity and mood.
The mind can make the body relaxed. We all practice guided imagery in a negative sense all the time, by worrying. If the same technique is used positively, and visualize beautiful imagery of nature, it can lower our anxiety levels and boost our performance
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Your workspace matters
Lighting
- The best kind of light you can have in your office is natural light. It helps our bodies maintain our internal "clocks" or circadian rhythms which affects our sleep and energy.
- Poor lighting, whether it's dim lighting or harsh lighting from overhead fluorescent lights, can cause eye strain, stress, and fatigue.
- Don't sit with your back to a window unless you can shade it.
- Don't sit facing a window because that will make reading a monitor difficult.
- If you use a task lamp at your desk, position it so the bottom of the lampshade is at about the height of your chin when it's on.
Plants
- Indoor plants prevent fatigue during attention-demanding work.
- Even just having a window view of live greenery can be restorative and keep us focused.
- A peace lily plant requires little sunlight to survive and you only have to water it when the soil is dried out and is also great for cleaning the air.
- Cacti and aloe plants are other low-maintenance plants to consider.
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Stale Office Air
The air you are breathing in enclosed spaces could be impairing your cognitive function.
Bringing more fresh air inside, or having a good ventilation syste...
Poor Lighting
Being close to natural sunlight can make or break an employee’s experience.
Productivity gains (and losses) are connected to employees’ environmental conditions, so companies that create ideal office environments with abundant natural light and unobstructed outdoors views will reap the dividends.
The Colleagues You Sit With
People’s moods are contagious. When your co-worker is rude, you will start to catch their bad attitude, too.
Sitting within a 25-foot radius of a high performer could positively boost the performance of colleagues by 15 %.
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Distress Breaks
Schedule five minutes for every working hour in which you can take deep breathes, stretch, or even meditate.
To breathe deeply, inhale for five seconds, hold, then exhale for five seco...
View, Smell Or Touch Plants
Add to your desk a fragrant plant and smell it when you feel stressed. Also, feeling their leaves lets you use a different part of your brain, and restores your attention to something natural, instead of lists and demands.
If you can’t have plants, looking out the window at trees or greenery.
Grab a Healthy Snack
Hunger and dehydration play a huge role in agitating and exacerbating stress. So, if you are angry or dehydrated, grab a glass of water and some healthful snacks you can nosh on at your desk.
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