Eyes wide Open

It's been one week since I resigned as a call center agent and I have a bit of a problem in terms of adjusting my body clock. I still feel sleepy during daytime and having a hard time falling at sleep at night. Since the Seminar I currently attend shifts from 8am - 5pm, after we took or lunch I started acting like a zombie. Without my approval my eyes are getting heavy and took power nap on its own.Feeling disoriented with my dilemma, I came up with a list based on my experience of things you can do to stay sharp or simply just staying awake. I already tested and proven effective some of the few.Be inform that information provided in this particular blog came from my own point of view. On every tip there's an effectiveness rate ranging from 1-5 to help you choose which one will suit you better.


Here are few tips that I came up with:


1. Caffeinated drinks - Utilize your breaks by having one of these. It is indeed one of your primary weapon to fight drowsiness. Caffeinated drinks are primarily coffee, tea, soft drinks, and energy drinks.

Effectiveness : 4

2. Apples - We've been told that "An apple a day keeps the doctor away". But it also keeps you awake.It is said to be an alternative for caffeinated drinks for all you health buffs out there.

Effectiveness : 4

3. Walking - If your work requires you to sit the entire shift, It is beneficial for you to take a walk. It circulates your blood causing your body to be active and will stimulate parts of your brain. Don't over do it though for it will also tire you and probably end up on the floor sleeping. You will also be reprimanded for loitering.

Effectiveness : 4

4. Stretching - There's a wrong way of doing this and may result to a more sleepy you. Be mindful not to do stretching while yawning. By doing so, you relax your muscles and prepare your body to sleep whereas by stretching you contract your muscles preparing your body to do work.It reasons out the fact that we do stretching before we workout.

Effectiveness : 3

5. Power Nap - An average person must sleep in full 6 hours a day. If you only sleep for 4 hours before your shift and you still feel tired later on, that's because you lack 2 hours of sleep. In this situation you can charge yourself by doing the power nap. Take a 2 minute nap from time to time.While doing this do the praying hand position. So if ever you were caught just do the sign of the cross to pretend that your praying not sleeping.

Effectiveness : 3.5

6. Dream on - This is proven to be the most effective tip on how to stay awake.Sacrifice your lunchtime by hitting the sleeping quarters or simply sleeping on your desk/stations for an hour. You can get out of hunger with skyflakes or drinking water. You can also manage your lunch break let's say 30mins on sleeping 15mins on quick lunch and 15mins on siesta.Dream on buddy.

Effectiveness : 5

7. Smoking - I don't really advice smoking since I don't smoke, but for the benefit of others who does this then here you go. It is an alternative for caffeinated drinks and if you do both chances are you can survive your shift with ease. Also includes the risk of palpitation and lung cancer which you already knew and still ignores it.

Effectiveness : 4.5

8. Talking to someone - It really depends on how you talk and how much attention you will give to the conversation. If your talking to a customer over the phone and you feel sleepy, I suggest that you came up with a conversation that will interest you and your customer. Questions that still involves the line of business you are in.If you're having a problem making rapport to customers simply talk to your colleagues. The effectiveness on this depends on the conversation you are having. If it's a boring conversation then there's a risk for you to fall asleep.Have a funny even senseless conversation with each other.

Effectiveness : 4.5 can be 0

9. Count Backwards - You start from 100 - 0 in multiples of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 do this to keep your brain busy. The traditional way of counting consists of continually increasing a (mental or spoken) counter by a unit for every element of the set. You just do it in reverse this time.Can also lead to drowsiness depends on your motivation.

Effectiveness : 3.5

10. Think Happy Thoughts - If you find tip no.9 difficult you can do this. Think of your dreams (think not sleep and dream). Maybe think of ways to prevent malnutrition, traffic, drugs.You can also think of any hypothetical questions or what ifs. Discuss it with friends and have fun.

Effectiveness : 4

Enjoy!