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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's tip is to green your space.
Having a plant or two in your workspace can reduce your stress, and greenery just looks pretty too.
I'm writing this from my home office, where I have three nice succulents on my windowsill.
I also look out that window at lots of lovely trees.
Whenever I am feeling stressed, I look out the window and feel at least a little bit more relaxed.
There is pretty good evidence that people do report feeling lower stress levels when they have plants in their workplaces.
Humans like being outside, and given that a lot of our work happens inside these days, having plants nearby is one of the best ways to approximate the experience.
Rooms with plants are perceived as more cheerful, pleasant, and inviting.
If you work from home, this is easy enough to pull off.
Get a few easy houseplants.
The upside of my succulents, for instance, is that they really don't require a lot of care.
There is no need to water them frequently, and they tend not to lose a lot of leaves randomly or see the leaves go brown.
But there are plenty of others that can can work too, like snake plants, aloe, jade, cast iron plants, and such. Just google easy house plants.
Also, be mindful of what you see outside.
If possible, position your desk so you can look out a window.
Then, curate what you see out that window.
If you can move furniture or cans or kid bicycles, so you can see more greenery, you will probably be happy about that.
If you can, plant something evergreen in your view, so that even during winter, you'll see at least some green.
Skip laurels and leyland cypresses are two plants that are used a lot in landscaping because they grow quickly, grow densely, and provide privacy even after other plants lose their leaves.
But of course, you can Google options for this as well.
If you work in a corporate office, this is obviously a different matter.
But as long as you can have your own desk, you can probably get away with at least one small plant.
Choose a tasteful container and plants that don't have a strong smell or tend to inspire allergies.
It is much like having a family photo.
Most likely, no one will object.
If you and others in your organization do work that doesn't involve desks, maybe it would be possible to green up an employee break room.
Put a few pretty plants in that communal space so people can enjoy the greenery in between shifts.
shifts. You might volunteer to care for the plants, if it would help make this happen.
And if you choose easy ones, they won't need watering more than once a week or so.
It truly is a big payoff for not much effort.
Sometimes we accept that work is just what we have to do.
People aren't necessarily going to enjoy it.
And maybe that's true.
But we enjoy everything more when a space is calming and pretty.
Plants can make that happen while making very few demands of the people caring for them.
So green up your space and work will feel a lot less dreary.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
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