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Tell me a thing that makes your day at work better

Vitor Paladini on July 27, 2020

A simple discussion to start the week lightly. 😌

Whether it's a cup of your favorite tea or a real good playlist, how do you improve your mood at work?

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Closing a ticket without coding.

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Pedro Buzzi Filho

Pomodoro technique.

When I have to do something that I don't want to do but I know that is needed, I set an 30 minutes alarm and don't do anything else during that time. Usually, after a few minutes I realize that the problem was not so boring or hard.
If I don't solve the problem in 30 minutes, I make a new decision if I should have one more 30 minutes session or have a break.
I never do more than 3 sessions without breaks, because it drains my energy.

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Aldo Cid Siqueira

A good chair, a good cup of coffee and a relaxing playlist!

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Vitor Paladini

Agree with a good chair, it's the best investment you can make for your home office. Relaxing playlists make me sleepy though, so I usually I go with something more upbeat 🏃‍♂️

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Robert

Would love a hot cup of coffee! But I always get the cold ones. I hate the weather here in the Philippines.

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Benjamin Saul

For me I get up at around 6:00 AM so a good cup coffee is key to starting my day, then I get started review the email notes and case notes from the last 12 hours and based on the events of the last 12 hours I come up with a most important to least important list and go from there.

If I am not in meetings, I have Star Ship Sleeping Quarters play in the background link, due to the area I live being so noise, this is a must.

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Vitor Paladini

Love that low rumble, my condo is in front of a busy intersection so I always have something playing on my headphones to drown out the noise.

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Sarah

Back when I could take the dog to work (or back when we had home office during lockdown) I really appreciated being able to take short breaks to focus on the dog, get all the dog cuddles, and get some fresh air walking him.

Other than that - noise cancelling headphones, playlists, and something to take notes/doodle/plan the day helps a lot 💯

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Vitor Paladini

Dog mindfulness is best mindfulness.

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Alan

When a meeting is canceled! Nothing like extra time to focus and churn out some work.

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Ben Halpern

Clean calendar!

In my role I know I need to take part in meetings, but nothing is nicer than looking at a lot of consecutive blank time in my calendar to get stuff done.

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Prasanna

Very true!!
For this, I implemented one no-meeting-day per week. Every Wednesday, there will be zero meetings. :D

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bitwise-crypto

i agree

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Vitor Paladini

Oh, yeah. Knowing that you are going to have time to deep focus is a great feeling indeed!

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Prasanna

For me, a day starting without any merge conflicts in a large team, is heaven. :P

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Fran C.

Removing a lot of code that I wrote months/years ago and is no longer needed or used at all.

Less code => less bugs xD

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Steve Taylor

Some nice Ambient music without any distracting vocals, rhythm or ads really helps me focus.

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Pablo Hdz Martín

I listen to the radio every morning the talk show I like

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Reaper

I normally take an early leave or turn my status to offline if I'm not in a good mood and that actually cuts my speech.
As in , if i'm not okay that day, i'll probably be a lot more rude than I am. No control over my speech whatsoever.

But, I do enjoy a hot chocolate drink or a big cup of cold coffee, every now and then.
Boosts my mood up enough to work and dance at the same time

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Stefan

release done without bugs.

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Vitor Paladini

For me it is myNoise, especially during low focus days.

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Margo McCabe

Starting the day with yoga or a dog walk. Catching up with colleagues (virtually) to discuss our weekends and plan the upcoming week.

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Vitor Paladini

Yoga is so great! I've been doing 30min of it before work and it makes me feel super healthy 🙏🏻

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Michael • Edited

System not going down. :)

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Michael Tharrington

A cup of coffee and good tunes definitely help to improve my mood. ☕️ 🎶

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G33kNoob

Before going to work, i spend arround 1-2 hours with my little son, its making myday more beautiful

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Vuong Dang

Learning to play the piano, and be able to play even a simple piece during break time is incredibly rewarding. It is mindblowing because there's no room for any thoughts 😂

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Anshul Negi • Edited

When I flow with my work.....
It happens sometimes....

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Panda Quests

From which anime is the gif?

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Vitor Paladini

It's from My Neighbor Totoro 🍃

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André Matias

I like to read drinking a good coffee, after that I check my notes (I'm using the GTD method) and start to do something.
Nowadays it's works for me.

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Vitor Paladini • Edited

I tried GTD lots of times but never got really into it. But I kinda do the same with a pen and any piece of paper that might be nearby.

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Marc

A coffee with my co-working gang

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Lucas Pacheco

A good cup a coffee and a special playlist with all my favorite songs!

Sometimes I need to get up and look outside by the window having a coffee or tea.

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Nicolas Sebastian Vidal

I can happily say that my team is what makes my day at work better

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Vitor Paladini

That's great, and a real privilege! The rush of shipping stuff with a real good team is fantastic.

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bitwise-crypto

planning the day, waking up early, and a cup of cappuccino help me improve my working mood a lot

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Vitor Paladini

Gotta have that caffeine dose ☕️