Here's a couple short-term solutions to minimize your zone-out time:
- Listen to music you rarely listen to (I suggest starting with a disney playlist)
- Start a blog and write about how bored you are at work (no one's ever done that before!)
- Make a list of things you'd like to accomplish and do them one by one. Note: This might not work. Here's a how-to guide.
- Stay away from sugar - it'll keep you going for a little bit, but it quickly turn on you and you'll crash like a cat on diazepam.
Long-term solutions: Hmm... a little tougher. What you need a sense of purpose. Why are you here where you are waiting for something exciting? Here's my reason for working behind a computer, inside for 7.5 hours a day: my wife. Kate loves sewing and wants to start selling baby blankets and homemade cloth diapers on etsy or her website to come, katekirchner.com. You see, you have to remember why you are here. If you really have NO reason why you are where you are, then get out of there! You have better things to do - higher places to go! Start a hobby, adopt a puppy, make a friend - find a reason to be doing what you're doing.
Find a purpose and if you can't, why are you there?
And I'll leave that up to you - one more thing to keep you occupied while you wait for your exciting event.
