Improve Your Sleeping Habits :

All those accumulated sleepless nights tend to have consequences. Being sleep deprived causes fatigue, clumsiness, extreme weight variation and affects our ability to concentrate and remain cognitive.Of course being sleep deprived can also have a big impact on your job search, job productivity, and your personal life. Sticking to a good sleeping routine is by far one of the best investments when it comes to your health and productivity.

Take technology out of the bedroom. The artificial blue light that our devices emit, makes it harder for us to fall asleep.

Avoid drinking coffee or too many liquids before going to bed. Having to wake up twice or three times to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night disrupts our deep sleep phase.

Block light and noise. The sleeping environment should be shielded from noise and disruptive light.

Stick to a sleeping routine. Sleep the same amount of hours every night… and try not to change it too much.

Take Cold Showers :

From experience, we know that cold water is unpleasant and not relaxing. We might have heard that cold showers are beneficial, but we dread taking them. And once we do, we feel like a million needles going through our body and we feel out of breath.According to WimHof (The Iceman), a 26 Guinness world-record holder, who can stay in ice baths for really long times, and who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in nothing but his shorts, says that exposure to cold revitalizes our body and mind.Cold showers (or cryotherapy) have insane benefits that you probably haven’t heard before. Such as keeping our immune, cardiovascular and nervous system in check. A cold shower will give you a rush of energy, have positive psychological effects, fight inflammation and pain, and improve your sleep quality.

Avoid Sitting too Much :

Nowadays people are sitting more than ever before. Our modern society has designed everything for sitting – from offices, vehicles, restaurants, the church, etc. According to research, the average office worker might spend about 15 hours a day sitting, while the agricultural worker spends only 3 hours. Although sitting is considered a normal body posture, doing it too much can be harmful. According to WebMD, sitting too much is bad for your health. It raises your risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.

Work standing. Invest in posture-friendly gear, like a standing desk. Or put some boxes on the desk, put your computer on top and stand up.No sitting, no standing, but squatting. It is great for stretching the ankles and letting the oxygen circulating through the body. Although people might look with their you-are-weird-face, try squatting for a couple of minutes on a low level while working with the computer.

Breathe on Purpose :

Most of the time, poor productivity is caused by stress and anxiety. A series of deep breaths can influence our state of mind and bring back some control. According to Harvard Medical School, practicing breath control helps quell errant stress response. Conscious breathing brings a rush of oxygen into our body, influencing our mental clarity, decreasing the stress, and making us highly focused.Although breathing happens naturally and automatically, we can gain back some control by influencing the air intake. Practice mindful breathing when undergoing moments of pressure and anxiety.

Find and Follow Your Flow :

Flow is a state of the mind of total engagement. When creativity and productivity are generated effortlessly from the mind, you are in The Flow. When somebody, either an athlete, a salesperson, a writer… says that was in the state of high performance or “In The Zone”, they were experiencing the flow.Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist and author of the book The Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, aimed to find out what improved creativity, and how can it lead to a higher productivity in the workplace.

Connect With People :

With the boom of technology and remote work, we are turning into socially isolated beings. We tend to spend more time in front of our devices talking and chatting with people all around the world than actually building real-life human relationships. We are building more social media connections but we are making less human interaction, leading ourselves into a depression trap.Chris Bailey, an author from LifeHack ran an experiment, where he isolated himself for 10 days to see how productive he was…turned out that not only his productivity decreased but also his mental health started to deteriorate.According to the Health Hacks article from Trackly, the mere interaction with other people (even though it is not work-related) can greatly influence our happiness and productivity. Even if you are working from home or telecommuting, it is worth the effort to make some time to socialize in order to avoid depression, isolation, and burnout.

Expose Yourself to Sunlight and Fresh Air :

Nowadays we can do pretty much everything with the click on our computer screens and inside our office rooms. No need to go outside… From online shopping to e-banking, paying our bills, ordering food, video-meetings, multiplayer gaming, etc. Although technology makes us highly productive, there is a high price to pay if we let technology take over.Paying your bills online is convenient, saves time and will surely make you more productive. But not going out and taking some sun and fresh air has some disadvantages in the long run.Thanks to the flexibility of remote work, employees are becoming “digital nomads”. They can decide how to work and when to do it. They travel, see different places, work outside where there is sunlight and fresh air.

Don’t Skip Breakfast :

While nutritionists still debate whether breakfast is the single most important meal throughout the day, a research from the University of Hohenheim in Germany found that calorie burn is greater when skipping dinner compared with skipping breakfast. In other words, in order to lose weight, it is much better to skip dinner than breakfast. The results match with what we already know about the circadian cycle.The common quote above is a simple way to remember how we should eat during the day. Don’t skip breakfast. Start your day with a full and balanced breakfast and decrease quantities as sleep time approaches.

Meditate to Relieve Stress and Anxiety :

Action takers, entrepreneurs, and writers who deal with tight deadlines are usually faced with stress and anxiety. Putting more and more time doesn’t make us more productive, it creates more stress. When you find the time to stop, relax and recharge, your body will thank you and reward you with a boost of productivity. How to reach that state?Meditation. Meditation reduces stress and anxiety, it promotes positive thinking, brings peace of mind and a sense of awareness, it recharges our energy and improves focus and memory. Practicing meditation for as little as 5 minutes daily can bring so many benefits that it is hard to imagine.

Drink a Cup of Bulletproof Coffee :

The creator of Bulletproof Coffee, Dave Asprey, tried a tea made with yak-butter for the first time in Nepal, he liked how energized he felt after drinking it and set up to refine its recipe. And BulletProof Coffee was born.It is basically a recipe made with Coffee, Brain Octane MCT (medium chain triglycerides) oil and grass-fed butter.After drinking this coffee, you’ll feel a boost of energy (without the caffeine crash) and a clear mind to improve your productivity 10x. You can brew the coffee yourself by buying the ingredients in the local whole market, or buying it directly from Bulletproof.In the article “What is like to drink bulletproof coffee every morning for two weeks”. Chris Gayomali from Fast Company, suggests not to replace the full and balanced breakfast, but a cup of Bulletproof coffee every morning boosts energy and productivity.