TIPS MIKE CLAYTON DEEP HEALTH
The three pillars of deep health are nutrition, rest and exercise. So office wellbeing requires that you pay attention to each of them. Scoffed lunches at your desk do little to refresh you, so take time out to eat your meal somewhere different, and to take your time over it. Keep water at your desk, where you can reach it when you want it and, from time to time, get up and walk around to keep the blood flowing and your posture lighter. Taking short breaks between tasks makes you more productive than if you just crack on from one to the next.
SUSTAINABLE ORGANISATION
The Japanese principle of Five-S revolutionises workplaces. You can use it to make your own office space more effective. Three to focus on are Sort, Simplify and Standardise. Sort out what you will need from what you don’t use. Dispose of the
latter – or archive it. Simplify your workplace by setting everything you will need in order, making the things you use most often easier to reach. Create a uniform, harmonious, standardised work space, with neat labelling, tidy files and a system that allows colleagues to quickly find what they need too. You may later go on to Shine it up regularly and Sustain your system, but habits start with small changes.
4 TIPS TO A HEALTHY PRODUCTIVE OFFICE
Dr Mike Clayton, author of best- sellers Brilliant Stress Management and Brilliant Time Management,
tells The Best You that there are four essential principles to maintaining your wellbeing in the office.
PRODUCTIVE TIME PRODUCTIVE TIME
The key to using your time is to know what matters most and prioritise it. Understand what creates your success and focus on one important thing at a time, letting go of the trivia. Use a flexible planning process, like the OATS principle, that daily – even several times a day – allows you to review the Outcomes that are most valuable, the Activities you need to carry out to achieve them, the Time you must allocate to each, and when to Schedule each activity to make best use of your time
The key to using your time is to know what matters most and prioritise it. Understand what creates your success and focus on one important thing at a time, letting go of the trivia. Use a flexible planning process, like the OATS principle, that daily – even several times a day – allows you to review the Outcomes that are most valuable, the Activities you need to carry out to achieve them, the Time you must allocate to each, and when to Schedule each activity to make best use of your time
Wellbeing is too important to be left to chance. It makes the difference between efficiency and waste, success and failure, and happiness and a deep slough of depression and misery. It’s you choice; but luckily, the habits that will make that difference are easy to acquire.
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