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5 Ways To Make Your Daily Commute More Productive

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Our daily travel often consumes a significant portion of our day and causes excess fatigue, which then negatively influences our productivity, mood and overall work-life balance.

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While there is relief for remote workers, other working professionals have no option but to hassle through the traffic. (Representative Image)

While there is relief for remote workers, other working professionals have no option but to hassle through the traffic. (Representative Image)

Your stressful daily commute needs urgent rejuvenation and can be transformed into a productive time slot. Our daily travel often consumes a significant portion of our day and causes excess fatigue, which then negatively influences our productivity, mood and overall work-life balance.

While there is relief for remote workers, other working professionals have no option but to hassle through the traffic, take that early morning train and rush to their offices in what can be an irritating and mentally taxing ordeal. But there are multiple effective tricks you can use to enlighten your mood during travel time and enter your workplace feeling just as energetic and encouraged. Here are five ways to turn your daily commute into a productive and mentally relaxing time slot.

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Podcasts And Audiobooks

In the social media age, we often tend to scroll our phones endlessly during travel hours. It may initially be refreshing but has no real benefits in the long run. Swapping this empty scrolling with intelligent, thought-provoking podcasts or audiobooks could lead to positive improvements in your life and professional development.

Map Out Your Day

Instead of dealing with your thoughts, you can also use your daily commute to do something productive and create a daily ‘To-Do list’. It is scientifically proven that maintaining such a list and checking up on goals can raise the overall functioning and productivity bar of an individual. A ‘To-Do list’ helps you mark certain tasks as priorities, instilling greater clarity on how to proceed with your day and reducing stress over time.

Language Learning

Talking of productive tasks for commute hours. How about spending that period learning a new language? In the digital world, regular travellers can use multiple language learning apps and platforms that provide task-based learning schedules. You can keep your mind busy and engaged by tracking your skill development on these apps, turning idle travel into a self-improvement session.

Catch Up On News

If you do hook your eyes to a mobile or tablet screen during regular commute, isn’t it so much better to do so to catch up with news and be aware of our surroundings? Keeping updated and knowing what is happening in the world helps us understand the impacts of certain events and developments in our lives. Dedicating time to news apps instead of empty scrolling can be a fruitful travel exercise.

Clear Small Tasks

While travelling, you can also ease your daily workload by clearing up small tasks such as responding to emails, reviewing documents and proofreading presentations for your workplace on a smartphone. Finishing off these minor tasks early during travel time can clear up space for you to take timely breaks in your otherwise draining work shifts.

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Nishad Thaivalappil is a Lifestyle and Entertainment Journalist with almost a decade-long odyssey in the realms of movies, music, culture, food, and travel. He leads the Lifestyle desk at News18.com. Besides ha…Read More

Nishad Thaivalappil is a Lifestyle and Entertainment Journalist with almost a decade-long odyssey in the realms of movies, music, culture, food, and travel. He leads the Lifestyle desk at News18.com. Besides ha… Read More

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