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?
For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
Top comments (38)
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.
When a meeting is canceled! Nothing like extra time to focus and churn out some work.
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!
For me, a day starting without any merge conflicts in a large team, is heaven. :P
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
Some nice Ambient music without any distracting vocals, rhythm or ads really helps me focus.
I listen to the radio every morning the talk show I like
I normally take an early leave or turn my status to offline if I'm not in a good mood and that actually cuts my speech.
As in , if i'm not okay that day, i'll probably be a lot more rude than I am. No control over my speech whatsoever.
But, I do enjoy a hot chocolate drink or a big cup of cold coffee, every now and then.
Boosts my mood up enough to work and dance at the same time
release done without bugs.
For me it is myNoise, especially during low focus days.
Starting the day with yoga or a dog walk. Catching up with colleagues (virtually) to discuss our weekends and plan the upcoming week.
Yoga is so great! I've been doing 30min of it before work and it makes me feel super healthy 🙏🏻