Tips To Boost Creativity in a Professional Workplace

It’s easy to stuck in a rut and start producing the same old same old output. Being creative and working creatively starts with a healthy body and a healthy workplace.

Improve creativity in the workplace with the following tips:

1. ZZZZZZ. Get enough sleep at night. Residual lack of sleep will catch up with you and drag you down. If you work in an office where you can catch a cat nap, do it. Shut your office door, and lie down on the sofa for lunch hour.

2. Cut down on caffeine regularly. Caffeine is good for quick highs, but when you want to maintain your energy level, you need a different ploy. Sugar and caffeine fixes should be saved for emergency energy boosts — not regular boosts. They’ll wear you down. Substitute water for your caffeine.

3. Get your oxygen moving. Yawn and stretch. Both of these things re-circulate your blood and help you intake oxygen. Do this when you have long hours at the office or a tedious project at hand.

4. Dress in layers. Heat will make you tired. If you can shed clothing as you go through the day, you’ll be able to adjust your body to the appropriate comfort temperature.

5. Eat well. Carbs will tire you out. Eat protein and eat light multiple times throughout the day. Don’t snack on junk. Snack on good food.

6. Watch the liquor. Obviously, drinking too much during the week, at nights, will take a toll on you, eventually. No amount of coffee can combat the residual effects of drinking too much. Moderation.

7. Take care of business on the home front. If you’re thinking about when you have to get the babysitter home or when you have to pick up someone at soccer, you’re not going to be concentrating on your job. Make sure business at home is taken care of so you can relax and let it go while you’re playing.

8. Don’t gossip and don’t snipe. When you start making negative comments, you’ll become known as someone others can come to gripe with. Before long, you’ll be gripe central. All that negativity will wear you down. Keep it positive and keep it light.

9. Throughout the day, hand out compliments and be generous with your words. Don’t lie, but don’t hold back if something or someone is doing a good job or improving. You’re part of a team. Act like it.

10. Make time for you and your partner. Even if they’re not working with you, what you do outside the office affects what you do inside the office. Your romantic relationship is a place where you rejuvenate. If you have a rough week at work, book a night at a hotel or a weekend away. It’s not a splurge — it’s proactive health care! But don’t bill your insurance company for it — they’re not that enlightened. Yet.

11. Open the windows or the blinds.

12. Move the furniture around.

13. Change a few things that are decorating your office — pictures, plants — shake it up in your office and you’ll shake up your head.