Work Smarter

Learn touch-typing. With regular practice, you can easily ramp up to 40 words per minute and above, in a matter of four to six weeks. This will greatly help you reduce the time you take to get your work done.

Keyboard shortcuts (make the mouse redundant)! The best part of keyboard shortcuts is just that-shortcuts! They are mighty helpful in lessening the time spent on the computer. For example, if you want to see your desktop, it makes much more sense using the [WINDOWS]+ [D] combination rather than clicking on the ‘Show Desktop’ icon in your taskbar.

Exercises

The human body was designed to perform tasks such as farming and hunting, rather than sitting at the table and hammering away at the keyboard. So even with the best of ergonomics, you are bound to put some stress on your shoulders, neck, and wrists. The best way to tone things up is by doing some very simple exercises. These will help both stretch and strengthen the muscles that you use. Here I have focused on stretching exercises for the neck, shoulders, and the wrists because these are the parts stressed the most. While exercises go a long way in prevention and advancement of these conditions, don’t do them if you already have advanced symptoms. The best thing to do then would be to consult a surgeon.

Broadly, there are two types of exercises-stretchers and strengtheners. There are exercises for every muscle group under both categories.

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