I take any advice to help my brain respect my working hours 
I work a 8-17 office job with a lunch break from 12 to 13. Now I know that's a schedule made for machines and not for humans, and that sucks to have to make my brain adapt to it (we don't have much of a choice in this society heh).
I'm usually motivated from 9 to 12, then from 13 to 16 it's like I need to recover from lunch 🙃 in the afternoon I can't do a thing except under last minute panic. Then the motivation kicks in suddenly at 16 when I have 1h or less to work. It's Friday and I just finished work at 17:30 right now (in home office).
I have a clue why I can't get things done (my phone lol) but the urge to take a break / the impossibility to think is here regardless.
Do you know any tip that can help my brain focus before 16?
#How to make motivation kick in sooner?
dusky ember
ashen grove
I struggled with this exact afternoon brainfog for several years. It sounds like a silly question, but what are you eating for lunch?
Making the following adjustments really helped me:
- Eating a smaller breakfast and lunch, or splitting lunch into two meals 2+ hours apart
- Reducing lunchtime carb intake
- Increasing lunchtime protein intake (with a few healthy fats like avocado or nuts thrown in)
- Reducing morningtime caffeine & sugar intake (preventing an afternoon crash)
- Eating fruits with breakfast and lunch (tiny sugar boost with minimal crash)
- A short walk after lunch
It also helps to prioritize tough work for the mornings and hold your afternoons to a rigorous preplanned schedule. But I was surprised at how effective changing my lunch habits was.
dusky ember
I eat a lot at lunch, that's for sure one of the reasons :/ I eat whatever the canteen has to offer + a dessert so it's hard to keep track of what exactly I'm eating. They serve quite balanced meals. Same when I'm in home office but I mostly focus on meals that are quick to prepare.