Beat the Afternoon Slump at work!!!
I always feel as sleepy as I try not to in the afternoons, well browsed and found something useful.
1. Head outside and sit in the daylight
for 10 minutes. Better still, have your
lunch outside and divide your break
between eating and a walk. It will
help reset your chronological clock, keep
down the amount of melatonin (the sleep
hormone) your body produces during
this circadian dip and give you a valuable
boost of beneficial vitamin D, reducing
your risk of osteoporosis as well as
various cancers.
2. Choose activating protein not
energy-sapping carbs. Eggs, poultry, Fruits, beans,Avocados(Butter fruit), cauliflower, Dates, Broccoli, Spinach, Sweet corn, coconut, bananas,Soy milk,Apples.
3. Make an “I was thinking of you”
phone call. To your wife, child, siblings,
parents, a friend or a retired colleague.
A 5 minute keep-in-touch call will lift
your spirits for hours and reinvigorate
you to get your work done.
4. Clean your desk and clear out
your email inbox. Plan some dumb work that doesnot need more of your concentration and involvement in this span of time.
5. Consider a morsel of dark chocolate.
This is not a license to overindulge, but
dark chocolate does have some unique advantages.
6. Keep a rosemary plant in your office.
Not only will sharing your space with
a live, growing thing provide its own
mood boost, but studies find the scent of
rosemary to be energizing. Whenever you
need a boost, just rub a sprig between
your fingers to release the fragrance into
the air. Or, if you’re really wiped out, rub
a sprig on your hands, face and neck.
7. Have an afternoon snack designed
to get the blood flowing.
