7 WAYS TO BEAT SLOPPINESS AT WORK

By: Acreaty Management Consultant (P) Ltd.

An example of sloppiness is when it’s pouring outside your window and you wake up blurry eyed, wrapped in a cozy blanket with the feeling, ‘I wish the roads get blocked and a holiday is declared!’ Or, when you are super tempted to ‘call-in-sick’ but have an important meeting for a new pitch.

But the classic example is when you have just eaten your meal & oh, what happens next is a common phenomenon throughout offices. Yes, it is that ‘Let’s just grab a folder and use it as a pillow to lie down on the floor for a while.’ It’s just like the 5star advertisement – One bite of the delicious chocolate and Ramesh and Suresh are floating in an uninterrupted world of their own.

Although it is only being human, it still affects your productivity at work. And thus we bring to you ways to tackle this sloppiness monster.

Are you a glutton?

Eating a heavy meal varies from over eating. When your mouth gets tired of chewing and your jaws start aching, it is an indication to take a break. Not that it means that after biryani if there is a bowl of tempting jelly in front of you, you simply let it go without a fight.

Power naps help

If at all you have this uncontrollably desire to take a quick snooze, excuse yourself and go for it. It has been scientifically proven that if you can zone yourself out for a time span of fifteen minutes, keep at bay all the yelling and chaos and close your eyes to just relax, it makes you feel energized.

Skip the house arrest

You are not grounded to sit at your own desk even during lunch time. The mere thought that you have to get up from your workstation and walk towards another space will alert your mind that it cannot afford being lazy.

Catch – the – crook

It’s just a tweaked version of ‘catching cook’, where you make a human chain and take turns chasing the person that brought the most delicious food. Be it across the office or cubicles, the cafeteria or the stairs.

Doodling spree

If you work in one of those offices that doesn’t give you much space, no worries. Grab a piece of paper and a pen and have a mini doodling competition. One that finishes drawing something sustainable first gets a toffee.

Makes a mess, clean a mess

If at all your boss does not have an issue, who is stopping you from having a light paper ball fight? Use rough paper or the disposable newspaper. If you want to spruce it up even more, grab a roll of toilet paper, which should wake up your brain dead cells.

Attack the bull’s eye.

Get a mini dart board and hang it in one corner of the office. A fifteen minute tournament is all you need. The very action of moving out of your seat and preparing for a hit will make you feel charged up. Just don’t bet on money, wager doing coffee turns instead to make it more fun and interesting.

If you are a fitness freak or are simply conscious of being healthy, merely stand upright behind your chair for fifteen minutes after a meal. Not much of an effort but it definitely keeps your eyes from drooping.