Small doses of daylight to power a desk day
If your working day is spent mostly indoors, daylight can become something you glimpse through a window rather than something you experience directly. This can affect mood, motivation and energy levels, as a basic human need is not being met.
This guide suggests ways of building daylight into your day almost without noticing — a short dose in the morning is one of the best-evidenced ways to set your body clock for the day, and a second dose around midday can help sustain that alertness into the afternoon. Anchoring a habit to routines you already have — that first coffee, a lunch break, a call you could take outside — is more likely to stick for many than promising yourself a proper walk in the fresh air you never quite get round to. Just pick one or two ideas and get creative about how they might work for you.