Beautify your workspace to enhance your productivity !
Over a period of nearly 3 years of my development career, the most important thing I have learnt is establishing a minimal yet beautiful office space. If it is not good, you can not work good. Pin it somewhere prominent.
Below are the guidelines to make sure you stay meaningful even when you are hours into hitting keyboard and pushing content. Excessive coding / design / writing / painting becomes dull at some point. It is a myth “you can not produce good content when you are hours down into creating one” — totally WRONG !
You can publish highest quality content — even after hours of hard work — if you lift the ambience of your space, fix your posture a little and declutter your surroundings.
This is a broader view but to be precise read the remaining 4 minutes article.
1 — Do not lose important things
As you sit longer, weird things start happening with your focus. Pomodoro recommends we take a 15 to 20 minutes break after 4 sessions of 25 minutes. That means, we get up, move around, make coffee and slide it down our throat.
See — All these things related to moving around requires availability of things. If you can get up, move easily and find the coffee at the same place you left yesterday, that means you have a rather better work space.
For me it was a big problem. Losing things that I placed very carefully around my work desk. Over period, I have realised, it is a big distraction that leads to frustration. So.. never lose your stuff that you need in those 15 to 20 minutes promodoro breaks.
2 — Create space for your arms, elbows and bums
Sitting posture is an important factor to protect you from back pain, distractions and wet eyes. Great sitting posture is Great. There is no doubt about its importance. But how exactly do we have the greatness while sitting laser focused on our black screen? Let’s find out !
Keep your elbows just around the corner of the desk. That you can not move them freely. Moving elbows means your hands are moving un-necessarily too much. Let your hands do the work. While protecting any budge on your elbows.
The place ahead of the elbows and the keyboard needs to be cleaner, cozier and feel good texture. You only have a keyboard and a mouse on your desk. Longer hours of work demand you give them their due share of your life. These items are important elements. While you are at your work — you simply can’t let anything else touch these things. No glass of water, no tissue paper, no white paper and no pencil. Keep the clutter away from your keyboard and mouse.
The last important is the choice of chair that keeps your bums at their rightful place. You can not afford a hard bottom chair, or a straight bench, or any thing too cozy. Work time is meant to be purely related to Work. Keep your bums at good height that you can keep your elbows pinned to your desk corner and your keyboard is now well in your reach.
Do not turn your computer desk and chair into a dining table that comes eating at your chin. Do not lower it too much, that your elbows fail to touch the table. Find the mid spot to make sure you do not get tired over longer periods of work.
3 — Remove clutter
I believe good things happen in home office. Not the work office or a co-working space office. If your home office, looks and feels great you really do not feel a need to go somewhere else and create things. Keep your home office cozy. Because, this is your home, there is no loss in investing here.
Find nordic design furniture, try to lay some wood on the floor, that your naked feet feel great in all weathers. Keep warm lights near the desk but out of reach of your eyes. Too much warmth, slowly start hurting your eyes. Hang a big size TV, if you can afford. The office chair should be able to serve multiple purposes.
- You should be able to work on your desk sitting here.
- A slight revolve should let you watch NETFLIX.
- And another turn should let your discuss ideas — with mates sitting back on your sofas.
This is your office chair. It is meant to reflect the kind of destination you are aiming at everyday. Nicely decorated furniture will lift your mood as you will be reaching home and it will be easier to get into your work flow.
Conclusion
I love Humans and Life related words. To be honest, it all comes down to good mood, positive thoughts and meaningful smiles.
All good people, slowly grow the habit of making their work spaces, their homes, their gallerys, lounges and lawn outside — meaningful. It does not take ample amount of money to declutter our life from excessive noise, spicy drama talks and gossips. It only needs discipline.
If you want to make sure you stay productive, on track, your customers love your work and you manage to work in a repeated state of flow, embrace discipline.
You will be becoming a professional in what you are doing, in a matter of days instead of months.
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