Coaching practices for I Feel More Comfortable Working From an Office is This Now a 'drawback'

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• The second I sit at this desk to do it my whole body sort of recoils
• My job pins me to a desk eight-plus hours a day and I can’t change that, and the studies about sitting and dying early genuinely scare me
• The one-on-ones I do across a desk feel stiff, and the honest stuff and the good ideas never quite come out face to face
• I try to do my real work in the exact same spot, on the same screen, where I answer email and scroll and take calls
• Left alone I’ll dodge this for hours, but the moment someone else is just sitting there working nearby I somehow drop in and get going

Practices that may help

1. Modify the environment to reduce sensory aversion
   The context in which you do a task is part of its aversiveness — change the container.
   Task Aversion and Procrastination
2. Counteract occupational sitting with deliberate after-hours NEAT
   Desk workers who add deliberate after-hours walking substantially reduce the mortality risk associated with prolonged occupational sitting.
   NEAT Thermogenesis
3. Walking meetings and conversations
   Move one-on-ones and brainstorms onto a walk instead of a table.
   Walking for Creativity
4. Define your territory: where creative work belongs
   Name the specific space, time, and conditions that constitute your creative work territory and defend them.
   The War of Art, Made Practical
5. Use a body double for low-initiation tasks
   Work in the physical or virtual presence of another person to borrow their initiation momentum.
   Task Initiation: Overcoming the Start Problem
6. Offer office hours to concentrate collaboration
   Designate one or two open windows per day when collaborators can reach you freely, then protect everything else.
   Maker vs Manager Schedule
7. Outsource personal and business tasks with a virtual assistant
   Hand off any recurring task a written process can describe to a skilled assistant.
   Lifestyle Design, Made Practical
8. Use a 15-minute end-of-day planning buffer to close the day’s loops
   Before leaving work, take 15 minutes to list tomorrow’s priorities and explicitly close today’s open loops.
   The Zeigarnik Effect: How Unfinished Tasks Occupy Your Mind
9. Protect the advantages of small — resist headcount as a measure of success
   Adding people to a team adds communication overhead faster than it adds output — protect the productivity of small.
   Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson)
10. Send proactive, brief status updates
    Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
    Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss

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