50 ideas of what to do during a break at work
Work And Study / / December 25, 2019
to cheer up
1. Do a few stretching exercises right at your desk, so that the muscles rest of the monotonous posture.
2. Go out and walk around the building twice. If too cold, some times go down and go up the stairs.
3. Offer to go for coffee for everyone. You will receive the necessary dose of caffeine at the same time and thanks to colleagues.
4. If you need to call, go outside or in the meeting room and talk on the go. Stir together with talking energize you.
5. Take a nap for 15 minutes. For example, in the car or anywhere else where you will not see it. After that, you will feel much fresher.
6. Read something inspiring. Or look motivating TED speech.
To recharge the brain
7. Try brain fitness machine Lumosity. Neuroscientists have developed exercises that train basic cognitive abilities: memory, attention, problem solving.
8. Read useful articles that are bookmarked. You will distract and perhaps learn something new.
9. Look at the beginning of yesterday's release of some of the evening shows. So you will quickly learn the news will laugh.
10. Snack something useful. Blueberry, black currant, leafy greens and nuts help the brain work better.
11. Bring a good book in the office, do not work-related, and read it breaks. A good book will charge you with inspiration.
12. Write something! For example, a blog post or a short story about what is going on in the office. Or begin work on a book, which has always dreamed of writing.
13. Learn a foreign language with the app Duolingo. To vocabulary, just enough a couple of minutes a day.
to communicate
14. Have a cup of coffee or a colleague to hold a meeting on the go. At the same time, you can discuss the accumulated ideas or ask for advice.
15. Cheer colleagues ridiculous pictures.
16. Exit the room and call someone from the family. Just ask, how is their day.
17. Ask colleagues with whom closest communicate, to share the funniest joke. Then buy a coffee the winner.
18. Thank someone who has helped you recently. Optionally write a long letter, enough for a pair of lines.
19. Compliment someone of his colleagues. Remember why you like to work with them or what they are doing better than others.
20. Do you have time for a break, but if it is your colleagues? If another department urgently needs help, help. Colleagues will appreciate the next time you help out.
To pass the time productively
21. Uber phone. Remove unused applications, sort out the photos, lay out the application folders. Transfer applications that are using on a daily basis, on the main screen. At the same time change the wallpaper.
22. Select one of the projects you are working on right now, and arrange a ten brainstorm. Stock up and leaves a marker and write down everything that comes to mind.
23. Update your passwords. It is best to phrase included upper and lower case letters, numbers and at least one special character. Do not use the same password for email and social networks. Not to forget the new password, use the password manager, such as 1Password or PassPack.
24. Uber in a drawer or nightstand. Discard the old cud, pens that do not write razognuvshiesya clips and other debris.
25. Improve your mailbox. Write canned responses and set up an autoresponder.
26. Unsubscribe from unnecessary mailings. All that you have not read for a month, only to clog your inbox.
27. Rename the documents and place them in places. Then I do not have five minutes to seek the chief need file.
28. Delegate some task. Try to free up time for what you love.
In order to advance in their careers
29. Go to Pinterest. But instead of boards with recipes or DIY look something associated with a career. For example, collections of impressive summary, Working suits, or steep the companies in which you would like to work.
30. Look in the social networks, which have more recently. Someone wrote a book? I changed the design of the site? Speaking at the conference? Close friend can write a letter of congratulations.
31. Scroll through the tape, see what they write friends. Congratulate those who have been promoted or got a new job. It is unknown when you may need these connections.
32. Sit back and dream. Not on vacation at the beach, but about what you want to achieve in your career five or ten years. Want more creative job? A job that allows you to travel a lot? Own business? Have not thought about what it needs to do. Just allow yourself to dream.
33. Sign up for talented people who have achieved something. Watch out for updates and advice.
34. Tidy your professional profile.
35. Find courses, which would like to register or conference you would like to visit. Think about how to save money on it, or persuade the chief to pay the costs.
To relax
36. Within two minutes, do not do anything. Seriously, there is even a website donothingfor2minutes.com. You just need to relax and listen to the sound of the waves and move the mouse.
37. If you are due to something going through, write down these thoughts on a piece of paper, and then discard it.
38. Find new wallpapers: beautiful scenery, inspiring quote or a photo from your vacation. Better yet, choose a few and change them every month.
39. Go to a favorite coffee shop and buy yourself some warm and tasty drink. Sit down and enjoy every sip.
40. See photos from different corners of the Earth to the National Geographic website.
41. Take a pen and paper and write down your thoughts. It's okay if nothing comes to mind of genius. Write down what you feel and what you thank. This is enough to relax.
To completely ignore
42. Turn imagination and add interesting items to the list of what you want to do in life. Keep this list in Evernote, «Google Docs" or Bucketlistly.
43. Go to Buzzfeed or another entertainment site.
44. Turn on your favorite playlist working. As it should be songs that inspire you, but do not distract from the work. If you need to write a better experience on instrumental music.
45. Replace the office supplies to the workplace to look more professional.
46. read funny comics.
47. Draw a picture in the spirit of Picasso Online picasso Head.
48. Go to the back room for the new stationery. Or look for something beautiful online.
49. Make a beautiful sculpture of office supplies.
50. Suggest colleague compete in races on an office chair.