Long New Year holidays allow not only to have a good rest and have fun, but also give an excellent reason to get rid of your computer gadgets a little. Two weeks of vacation from sitting at the monitor every day, from having to stay in touch every minute and constantly checking e-mail. This is a good time to look at your digital habits somewhat from the outside and try to change them. We offer you some tips that can help computer geeks in the new year.
If you are subject to manic dependence on one of the online services or games (let's call a spade a spade), then try to remove everything that reminds you of them from your eyes. Remove links to Facebook* and Twitter, or whatever turns you on, from the favorites bar of your browser. Remove the icons of the computer game that eats up your time from your Desktop. This also applies to the screen of your mobile device.
Instead, put a motivating picture on your Desktop, pull out the launch button of the fitness application that you have launched only a few times, and place a link to our blog in a prominent place.
We have repeatedly written about this. The only goal they pursue is to force you to pick up your phone or open a browser and visit a completely unnecessary service to find out the news you don't need. Do you really need to know instantly who ate what for dinner, who has a birthday and what else our restless politicians came up with there?
Disable all notifications that are possible. Do your job and "let the whole world wait."
Computer routine is not the most physically demanding job. But kills us quickly and efficiently. Taking breaks while sitting in front of the computer, you will not only reduce the risk of the occurrence of characteristic occupational diseases, but will significantly increase labor productivity. Very often it is the switching of attention to another object, relaxation or vice versa — moderate physical activity, can help in solving an important problem.
Install and finally start using one of the programs that remind you to take a break and lock the computer at set intervals.
When we use our mobile phone or tablet as an alarm clock, it somehow turns out that this thing accompanies us to sleep and is the first to meet us after waking up. We take the phone in the morning and instead of charging, a quiet breakfast and a leisurely gathering for work we start checking what else happened while we were sleeping.
Buy yourself a real alarm clock (while they can still be found on sale) and use the old proven way of waking up. Do not let your gadgets at least into the bedroom.
Very many of us, by the nature of our work, sit in front of the monitor for many hours and nothing can be done about it. But then we come home from work and, as a rest, we sit down at the computer again. Games, correspondence, personal project, hobbies — a thousand reasons attract us to this way of spending time. Find the strength and turn off all devices two hours before bedtime. Give your brain at least a short time to calm down and prepare for a night's rest. Do something calm and quiet: reading, meditation, stretching. Or maybe we can just try to talk?
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