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Sitting all day, done properly
Setup, breaks, eyes, breathing and focus. Specific enough to act on today, and honest about where the evidence is thin.
The 90-degree rule is wrong
Knees at 90, hips at 90, elbows at 90. It is the most repeated desk advice there is, and it quietly misses the two things that actually decide how your neck and back feel at 5pm.
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Your eyes are not tired. They are dry.
Burning, gritty, blurry by mid-afternoon. Two mechanisms cause almost all of it, and neither one is blue light.
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You do not need a 25-minute timer. You need to stand up.
Pomodoro, 52/17, the 90-minute cycle. The numbers get argued about endlessly and they are the least important part of taking breaks properly.
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Most people reach for white noise. Pink is usually the better pick.
White, pink and brown noise do genuinely different jobs. Here is how to tell which one your room needs, and the volume mistake almost everyone makes.
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Four breathing patterns you can run without anyone noticing
No mat, no closed eyes, no leaving the room. Each one does something different, and picking the wrong one before a meeting will make you sleepy instead of steady.
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With ADHD the hard part is not focusing. It is starting.
The advice usually aimed at ADHD assumes the problem is attention running out. Most days the problem is a task that will not begin, and time that does not seem to pass.
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