If you want to have a good workday, chances are that you’ve already formed several strategies that work for you. But what if you haven’t? Here are a few tips to start making your day more productive, smoother, and happier overall.
Buy the Best Office Chair You can Find
There's an excellent design that just hit the market. It's a chair-and-desk combination, and its design hasn't been seen before. The chair features a position that's between sitting and standing, and it allows extensive movement of your body and use of your muscles while you work. Research has shown that this chair also helps those who are working remain attentive while they do so by making them focus on one thing at a time - unless they swivel away to look at another task. The table and chair hybrid is a great example of an excellent design that will help anyone work with more focus. However, even just a comfy chair with good lumbar support will benefit you significantly.
Limit the Number of Decisions You Make in a Day
So you tell yourself no fast food in the morning, go shopping in the middle of the day, and then have to choose between two different job offers, Scientific American says that you may actually choose the wrong job because you denied yourself fast food that morning. Making choices, no matter how small they may seem, drains your reserve of the executive function, or according to Scientific American: "the mental system involved in abstract thinking, planning, and focusing on one thing instead of another." Messing with this can actually result in poor decisions and regret the next day when your executive function has been reset. It can even affect the way you respond to certain situations, and how you make decisions after a larger one.
