How do I stay awake at work?
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I used to work the graveyard shift.  When I hit the wall and was just exhausted, I would get up and walk around for a while.  It gets the blood flowing and stimulates you naturally.  Get lots of sleep, exercise, eat a lot of small meals, and drink lots of water.
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1. Keep balance on everything you do. Consume, rest, exercise & excrete enough.\n2. Practice to focus on anything you do. Don't tag along to other subjects while working on another.\n3. While reading, put on 60 beats instrumental classical music. It helps activate your right hemisphere so it won't bother the left one with emotional thoughts & feelings including boredom, sleepiness.\n4. Keep away distractions while working. If you're a visual person, avoid places where lots of people going by, or avoid a room with a TV in it. If you're an auditorial person, avoid noisy places.\n5. Take a break every 20 minutes. Do a relaxation before get back to your work. Human attention/concentration span is taking an increasing pattern to a peak then sloping down. So you have to know when to stop.
754286
Day off tomorrow.  Don't want to go to sleep yet\nb
1061490
B vitamines and E are very good to help you keep alert. \nSee your doctor to make sure everything is okay with you, there are some medical conditions that make you tired a lot.\nGood luck!
1033777
stay put on your focus and set beside the other things. Try to work on a silent and peaceful place. Avoid the temptations that would be a destruction  to your work.
785489
Try having a snooze under your desk.
64735
*  avoid drugs and alcohol\n*  dont' eat after 7pm the night before\n*  set out everything you need for work or school the night before, \n*  get at least 7 hours of sleep\n*  SEt your thermostat to increase temparature to comfortable level 15 minutes before wakey-wakey time.\n*  When you wake up, greet your pets, if you don't have any get some!\n*  eat a great breakfast with your whole family.  \n*  Jump in shower after breakfast\n*  Sing or hum while you get ready for work&#92;shcool.
92040
depending on the type of work you do...keep a stack of papers on your desk, and if someone happens by, start shuffling the papers, like you're looking for a particular sheet, or pretend to be reading one, maybe even use a highlighter, and mumble to yourself (but loud enough for someone walking by to hear) about how much work you have to do yet today....
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Already a lot of good and not so good answers... Don't use alcohol, I did that for years. I don't drink now and sleep better. Stress, is the main thing that keeps me awake now, but only occasionally. Don't smoke either. Feeling secure makes you feel secure in your bed. Do everything to make sure your home is secure obviously. Financial security is important - people do lie awake worrying about money. Emotional security, knowing people care and love you. That's more difficult. But generally speaking you get back what you give out in that department. Obviously avoid stimulants like caffeine in the evenings. When you go to bed tonight. Think about me! A mysterious romantic Englishman - and let your imagination run wild! Even if you don't sleep - it'll make staying awake much more enjoyable. But after a while - maybe 8 hours - you'll get bored with me and nod off! Incidentally, it's 3.05pm in the afternoon now in England. Not the early hours of the morning! I haven't had lunch!
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I hear you!!!!  I have had the same problem.  I put the alarm clock far enough away from my bed that I have to get up to go shut it off, but I either do that, and immediately fall back into bed and sleep, or else I have even slept through the alarm completely.  My main problem is getting my day--night cycle completely out of whack.  I get used to staying up most of the night and then really getting into sound sleep about the time the sun is coming up.  When your biological clock gets that far out of whack, it isn't easy to reverse.  If you got somebody there to physically get you up and yack at you and help get some strong coffee down you and not let up until you are off to work or wide awake, and furthermore, they keep this up for a week or so, eventually you will start to get the hang of it.  Melatonin has been recommended but it didn't do diddly for me.  You want to avoid sleeping during the day or evening at all costs.  Sleeping in the day or evening will prevent you getting to sleep when you go to bed.  Taking a short acting sleeping pill like ambien for a while, at the time you go to bed, may help you to sleep then, if your biological clock is screwed up.  However, these medications can be very addictive.  If you take it, only take it for a week or so.  Having a coffee pot preset to make a pot of strong coffee before waking time will help.  If you got strong coffee and a snack to wake up to, and then a plan for work or whatever, to get you out of the house early, will help. You may find that you need more sleep and need to go to bed earlier, but right now, it won't work to go to bed before you know you can sleep and stay asleep until morning.  Yeah, a louder alarm clock wouldn't hurt.  I guess you could make a time bomb.  If you live in the country, you could put a time bomb a few yards from your bedroom window.  tee hee  Just make sure it isn't close enough to blow down the wall, and that your dog is removed from the area.  I like that idea.
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See there are different ways of distraction and diiferent ppl deal with them diff.\n\nPlease let us know profile of ur work and how is the work place arranged. \nSome general ones:\n1) Girls : These are biggest distraction . If ur r married think bout luv u made to ur wife and ask urslef to be loyal to her even when she is not around.\n\n2) Gossips: ask pple to shoo away from u if they are gossiping too much\n\n3)Be serious towards work. Can listen to music \n\n\nMore suggestions will come ur way once u make problem more clear
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Try drinking a lot of water. This helps the body rest better in a shorter amount of time. Plus the need to use the restroom will help awake you.
184578
No, who needs sleep?? Stay awake and go to work tired and groggy because you've been awake all night on Yahoo! Answers. I'm sure your boss will understand. :)
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1.Drink caffeinated coffee.\n2.Splash your face with hot or cold water, whichever is more shocking.\n3.Resist lying down. A sure fire way to put you to sleep.\n4.Keep moving. It helps.
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my husband also works at night,he is always tired too.but may i suggest as i have to him,blacking the windows..fooling you that it is night,also run a fan,the sound should help you feel refreshed when you wake and,it also drowns out unwanted daytime sounds.this is the only way i could sleep when i worked night shift,hope you sleep well..ZZZZZz
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Cubicleland is a challanging place where nothing is perfect and everyone puts up with things they don't enjoy. There is always heated debates about office sounds and temperature preferences, so you need to work on ways to cope with the realities of office life.\n\nConsider a small space heater for the cold office, a lap blanket, or a good warm sweater.\n\nHeadphones are a blessing if allowed, but if that isn't possible try a radio turned on low, or even a white noise machine to even out the sounds coming from the annoying equipment.\n\nCould be worse: I put up with annoying employees talking loud, constantly, all day chatting on the phone!
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Drink lots of water.  Staying hydrated keeps you awake.