A simple discussion to start the week lightly. 😌
Whether it's a cup of your favorite tea or a real good playlist, how do you improve your mood at work?
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Closing a ticket without coding.
Pomodoro technique.
When I have to do something that I don't want to do but I know that is needed, I set an 30 minutes alarm and don't do anything else during that time. Usually, after a few minutes I realize that the problem was not so boring or hard.
If I don't solve the problem in 30 minutes, I make a new decision if I should have one more 30 minutes session or have a break.
I never do more than 3 sessions without breaks, because it drains my energy.
A good chair, a good cup of coffee and a relaxing playlist!
Agree with a good chair, it's the best investment you can make for your home office. Relaxing playlists make me sleepy though, so I usually I go with something more upbeat 🏃♂️
Would love a hot cup of coffee! But I always get the cold ones. I hate the weather here in the Philippines.
For me I get up at around 6:00 AM so a good cup coffee is key to starting my day, then I get started review the email notes and case notes from the last 12 hours and based on the events of the last 12 hours I come up with a most important to least important list and go from there.
If I am not in meetings, I have Star Ship Sleeping Quarters play in the background link, due to the area I live being so noise, this is a must.
Love that low rumble, my condo is in front of a busy intersection so I always have something playing on my headphones to drown out the noise.
Back when I could take the dog to work (or back when we had home office during lockdown) I really appreciated being able to take short breaks to focus on the dog, get all the dog cuddles, and get some fresh air walking him.
Other than that - noise cancelling headphones, playlists, and something to take notes/doodle/plan the day helps a lot 💯
Dog mindfulness is best mindfulness.
Clean calendar!
In my role I know I need to take part in meetings, but nothing is nicer than looking at a lot of consecutive blank time in my calendar to get stuff done.
Very true!!
For this, I implemented one no-meeting-day per week. Every Wednesday, there will be zero meetings. :D
i agree
Oh, yeah. Knowing that you are going to have time to deep focus is a great feeling indeed!
When a meeting is canceled! Nothing like extra time to focus and churn out some work.
For me, a day starting without any merge conflicts in a large team, is heaven. :P
I listen to the radio every morning the talk show I like
Removing a lot of code that I wrote months/years ago and is no longer needed or used at all.
Less code => less bugs xD