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The BEST way is to go for a 10 minute relaxation- or Pranayama as it is called in modern parlance- there is nothing that can refresh you like that. This is my personal esperience.
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MEDICINE!!!!!
NexS 15th Jul 2010
There's a song by one Jonathan Coulton about having a medication for everything.

I'm *sure* that's the best way to avoid being brain dead, right?
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Good tips
ginmemphis 16th Jul 2010
When I'm brain-dead I can't work on projects that need scheduling and coordinating. That's when I look at the monitor! It's easier to be productive when I don't have to deal with people or paper. Since I do many different jobs--graphics, editing, user support, server admin--I can usually find something.

Oddly, when a critical computer issue arises my brain wakes up more.
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You came up with this while you were brain-dead, didn't you?

Brain dead is brain dead. You can't put no shine on it.
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To all those "more harm than good" -people out there.
You would too.
And after taking out the transplantable organs it's a short step to dead-dead, which in turns leads to fertilizer. How's that for productive?
Have just finished looking over a newsletter that I write- That's easy enough.

Necessary to do as the man says and go for a walk and watch the coffee brew for a few minutes.
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Productive
Ed Woychowsky 16th Jul 2010
Make CO2 for the office plants. happy
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Great one. When I find my concentration slipping away, sometimes a few minutes with my eyes closed helps. Other times, I'll use some energetic music to help set the synaptic pace.
Like it; good info. I used to sort out the stores. Every job I had from 1969 'til I retired last year, I left the stores better organised than I found them. Of course, you have to do little and often, or wait 'til there is a significant lull in the timetable. The latter doesn't happen often, but it does happen
Clean out your email box--sent and received. I am sometimes amazed at what I find.
Being on the physical (hardware) side of IT instead of administrative side, there is nothing like going up into the attic or under the floor and pulling dead cables, or documenting the patch panels. But don't be so brain-dead that you cut the wrong cable.
I catch up on my reading and research on items that I just can't figure out how to do on my own, GOOGLE it or BING it.
Read TR blogs wink
Well get me some 10 ways tooo I am very busy System Administrator who inherited a spagati Data Center and spagati Managment also
isn't it "let your mind WANDER"?
...it's day of the walking dead but with the brains doing the eating!
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I usually go over TechRepublic articles...
come on, you were asking for it... happy
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