As the coronavirus pandemic has locked everyone at their homes, people tend to get very bored and burn out at even faster rates, as some of the recent studies suggested.
Yet, whether we like it or not, the lockdown has largely changed our lives by showing that we can perform just as great while working from home. With lots of companies still working on remote mode even after the lockdown has been lifted, people have to find ways to make their life more engaging and interesting rather than just taking it as being stuck within the four walls. Luckily, there’s a lot of people in the world who got used to such a life. One such category of people is translators. These guys have quite a few tips to offer those who find working from home particularly challenging. To be honest, I often follow some of those routines myself.
5 Tips to Keep Yourself Fit Physically and Mentally While Working from Home
Indeed, it is important to keep yourself in both great physical and mental shape at the same time. As you exercise, you inhale more oxygen, which physically feeds your brain and your vascular system. At the same time, the intellectual activity provides some additional fitness for your brain and, what’s more importantly, your mind. So, what can you do to stay physically and mentally fit? In the following list, I have gathered a couple of essential tips that a few guys from top professional translation services reviewed at PickWriters shared with me. They will certainly keep you busy enough to forget about burning out.
- Switch the language of your social media account and try to post in your target language. Basically, that’s the easiest thing you can do, and it will most likely show results quickly. The interface of most social media platforms are quite simple to understand in any language, yet, that’s the point. You will certainly memorize most of those basic interface elements. As you get used to the new language, you can try posting something on your page in your target language. To spice things up, you can even delete your native language from the “What languages do you understand?” field to see posts in your target language more frequently as well as translate other people’s posts into it.
- Take an online dancing class. Dancing is a very engaging and enjoyable and, at the same time, a demanding physical activity. And performing certain moves to a certain rhythm and a certain beat makes dancing a rather universal solution to fight boredom and burnout while at home because it’s physical and mental activity at the same time. Some of the top dances to practice for the best effect, as medical workers and translators suggest alike, are the Latin ones, such as Salsa, as well as Middle Eastern kinds of dances that involve lots of muscle and are performed to a relatively complex rhythmic pattern.
- Write a personal narrative in another language. You don’t have to extremely precise and detailed as you write this purely for yourself and, at the same time, you’ll have a great chance to practice another language, which can be very useful for you in the future. Pick any language you’re a little bit familiar with and simply start writing everything you can write about yourself. Not only this will occupy you for some time, but also provide your brain with some stretching and might even inspire you to reconsider some things in your life. You can even learn the basics of how to become a literary translator by writing and translating a story about yourself. It’s quite easy and very fun!
- Try creating subtitles for your favorite YouTube videos or movies. You can do that even in your native language. Creating subtitles is a great and extremely useful listening and a writing exercise that will make your brain emit fireworks, in a good way. As your mental activity will increase and strongly intensify, even for a shorter period of time, you will certainly feel much better afterward. Watching movies has been proven to be an extremely useful mental activity that can even cure depression in certain cases and combining it with active brain fitness, like noting down what people say can simply destroy your boredom and lock burnout somewhere far away.
- Read and write some poetry. Again, you don’t really have to do it in another language. Like watching movies, reading, and writing poetry is another great exercise for your brain as not only you have to pick the right words, you also have to rhyme them properly in an appropriate rhythmic pattern. If such kind of multitasking wouldn’t keep you occupied and engaged, then I don’t know what would.
No Time to Be Bored
Translators are one of those categories of people that remains very much occupied during the lockdown and remote work. Translators have always been in great demand, so working from home for them is a normal thing for a very long time already. That largely helped them to develop their own techniques to stay inspired, as well as mentally fit and healthy. The guys I talked to worked for nearly a decade in freelance mode and cannot be happier with their lives. Hopefully, by using their tips, you’ll get better too!
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