How to stay awake at work (after doing weekend work).

Over the weekend I had to do a bunch of coding and crack my brain for a solution.
Monday morning I was back at it again coding after only a few hours sleep, not to mention having to do boring administration work at work. I always like to get my good 8 hours of ole sleep, so not like I do this all the time!

I knew that I would suffer a lot, because we have to keep up a high level of concentration at work. After some googling I found some stuff that I thought would help inspire me to keep awake, but I then thought to share my own spin on it.

So my top tips are:

1. Switch up your tasks when you feel yourself drifting off.
Work on something else for a bit or something more exciting, stay away from boring stuff.

2. Play music, youtube etc.
I hit the good old tube, I find some chillout mixes to be particularly effective.

3. Take a few breaks throughout the day.
Can take some strategic toilet breaks and close your eyes to rest them.

4. Also stare into the distance/out of a window (so called "eye breaks").

5. Eat some tasty food and drink plenty of water.
Of course glug down a coffee =) Listen to your body, it doesn't have to be super healthy in my books.

6. This my favourite one, sneak a bunch of drawing in your notebook.
Drawing can open up your imagination, it helps you to create ideas, and activates your right brain. This can potentially take the load off your left brain doing all the work and therefore makes you feel less tired.