3 Ways to Improve Your Workplace🌿

3 Ways to Improve Your Workplace🌿

Nothing affects our productivity as much as the environment around us. It does not matter whether you are in the office now or at home, these tips will make your workplace work for you.

Studies have shown that our working habits - both good and bad - are often influenced by various external signals. We go to the same places, we work at the same table, we are constantly influenced by the same factors.

It would seem that this is bad? Having created good working conditions for ourselves, we will always be at the peak of productivity. Unfortunately, everything is much more complicated.

The signals surrounding us at work often affect the subconscious level. Here are a few examples from studies confirming how much the environment affects our thoughts and actions:

▪ People are more likely to compete if they see a portfolio or even a picture on the wall.

▪ Communicating with a person who constantly uses such words as "upset", "bad", "useless", "disappointed" in your speech, you can feel worse.

▪ Even a barely noticeable smell of cleaning agent in many causes a sense of purity and accuracy.

So, how to create optimal working conditions so that our motivation, productivity and creativity are always at a high level?

🌿 1. Get rid of the mess

"If the mess on the table means a mess in your head, then what does an empty table mean?"
/Albert Einstein

Many creative people and scientists on the table have a mess. However, extra things can negatively affect our ability to concentrate and process information. This is what neurobiologists from Princeton University discovered when they compared the working capacity of people in an organized and unorganized workspace. The results of the research showed that the disorder in the workplace dispels our attention, as a result, the working capacity decreases, and the stress grows.

Getting rid of this habit is not so easy. Disorder often arises not from our laziness or lack of organization. We literally hurt to part with the accumulated things.

Researchers at Yale University recently found that the front waist cortex and the islet portion of the brain responsible for the pain sensation respond to the need to throw out something that you are attached to. These same areas of the brain are involved when we feel pain from a small cut or too hot coffee.

How can we get rid of stress and disorder?

Enter restrictions. Set yourself a rigid framework and do not go beyond them. This is the best way to stop accumulating unnecessary. And no matter what it's about: about tabs in the browser, magazines or subscribers on Twitter.

Reduce storage space. According to Parkinson's law, the work fills the time released on it. The same can be said about disorder. The less space, the less confusion.
Conduct a monthly audit. Every month, allocate time for cleaning and sorting of accumulated things.
Get out every day. Disassemble in the evenings everything accumulated for the day on the table. So you can start the next working day from scratch.

🌿 2. Find a place that inspires you

We do not accidentally feel a rush of inspiration, being in a beautiful building or sitting by the window. Architecture can significantly affect our performance. Fresh air and natural lighting at work also stimulate the productivity of employees.

Of course, we can not always change the working environment, but there is still a way out: find a place with natural light, go out into the street if you feel that the work has completely stalled, or just sit at another table.

In a new place, you may have new ideas. In addition, research has confirmed that it is easier to start new habits in new places.

🌿 3. Use different devices for different tasks

We know that different conditions affect us in different ways, so why not turn it to your own advantage? Our brain loves habits, and if we connect specific actions with certain places, it will be easier for us to increase our productivity. This is called matching tasks: the brain knows that in a certain place we perform a specific action.

The same method is applicable for different devices. For example, you can develop such a habit: to do all the main work on the computer, perform less serious tasks on the laptop, and use the tablet for reading only.

The method is so effective that it is used even in the treatment of insomnia. In this case, patients are asked to enter the bedroom only when they are tired. If after a while they can not fall asleep, they must go into another room and do something until they feel tired again.

If you manage to allocate a separate workplace or device for each task, you can direct your productivity in the right direction, just being in one place or another.