Dr. Laurie Santos

You know, if your workplace has a ton of clutter and everything around you, there are studies showing that subtly your eyes are being attracted to that and it becomes harder to focus on the tasks that you really want to be focused on when you're doing it.

You know, if your workplace has a ton of clutter and everything around you, there are studies showing that subtly your eyes are being attracted to that and it becomes harder to focus on the tasks that you really want to be focused on when you're doing it.

And so, yeah, I think it really is important to assess your environment, maybe do a little bit of an audit of your spaces and try to think about what you can do to make things a little bit less cluttered, a little bit less complicated.

And so, yeah, I think it really is important to assess your environment, maybe do a little bit of an audit of your spaces and try to think about what you can do to make things a little bit less cluttered, a little bit less complicated.

I think another thing we can do for our spaces to make them better, and this is something I know Gretchen talks about a lot, is to pack our sensory experience.

I think another thing we can do for our spaces to make them better, and this is something I know Gretchen talks about a lot, is to pack our sensory experience.

You know, often if you're like me and you're having a bad day, you're like, oh my God, I want to like eat something, you know, to feel better.

You know, often if you're like me and you're having a bad day, you're like, oh my God, I want to like eat something, you know, to feel better.

But we forget we can use all kinds of senses to feel better.

But we forget we can use all kinds of senses to feel better.

What would it do to like get a nice smelling candle or a nice smelling thing or something that feels soft, right?

What would it do to like get a nice smelling candle or a nice smelling thing or something that feels soft, right?

Even if it's like soft socks or like a softer chair or something like that.

Even if it's like soft socks or like a softer chair or something like that.

Curating your sensory experience can be a powerful way to feel a little bit better.

Curating your sensory experience can be a powerful way to feel a little bit better.

And so this is a hack I use now if I have some project at work that feels like a slog, like there's some paper I have to edit that I don't feel like.

And so this is a hack I use now if I have some project at work that feels like a slog, like there's some paper I have to edit that I don't feel like.

I'm like, I'm going to put on some nice fuzzy socks.

I'm like, I'm going to put on some nice fuzzy socks.