Once boredom settles in your mind, it will become hard to recover: you start to lose focus, your productivity goes down the drain, and most importantly, it becomes increasingly difficult to have fun at the office.
Many organisations have introduced gamification to reduce the dullness at work, however the individual need cannot be attended to.
Here are a few simple steps that can help you overcome boredom at workplace.
* The easiest way to kill boredom is by changing your daily routine. Though it may seem to be difficult, this can be done by making little adjustments.
Changing the way you commute or redecorating your cubicle/office can have a huge impact on how you see your day.
Even changing up your routine outside of work like how you sleep and how you exercise can help you have a brighter outlook and ultimately, a more exciting time at the office.
If exhaustion is why you feel so bored at work, then maybe add in some physical activities to your daily schedule.
* The lack of stimulation of the tasks assigned to you may be another root cause of boredom.
This can be overcome by being more proactive and actively seeking out new responsibilities.
There are more opportunities available for you to contribute than you may realise and these projects may just make you look forward to work again.
At times the problem isn't that you are not kept busy, but you are kept busy with work that you think constitutes nothing really substantial.
In this case the fault will fall on the company and it should articulate its mission to its employees and cultivate a more sound corporate culture.
However as an employee you must also recognise that everything that you do has immense impact on the company's success.
* If everything that you try fails, then learn to embrace being bored.
In other words, your fantasies of endless vacations in paradise are ways to stimulate your brain in times of utter boredom. It is in these times of solitary contemplation that some of the best solutions to the challenges you face may come about.
Author Edward de Bono dubbed these moments as 'creative pauses' – be it in the pool, in the shower, these are instances when we are purely thinking, when we can’t help but to push our creative boundaries.
Courtesy: www.officevibe.com
