I am trying to stay focused and maintain positivity

One needs to have a dedicated space that’s inspiring, well lit and decluttered, to maintain a healthy sense of connection with the surroundings. With a few changes, you can take boredom out and make your home desks more inspiring. Here’s what experts suggest.

Placing a small lamp or fairy lights, which now come in different colours and shapes, adds a touch of fantasy to the desk.

Throw in some chic accessories such as a pinboard with your daily/ weekly agenda, tea coasters, cosy rugs and cushions, to create an interesting ambiance. You could write motivational quotes on post its or print them out and put them up, to keep the positivity flowing. You can also put up pictures from your travel or special occasions on the wall overlooking your desk

A mix of modern aesthetic planters and recycled household items such as old ceramics and glass jars can be upcycled to create a lively, green space. A single huge corner planter with fresh flower vases, smaller succulents and bonsai plants make the space look fresh, calm and dreamy.

Deep tones like blue and green, highlighted with tonal colours like teal, rust and terracotta, or muted shades like pink, green and lilac, create a chic and suave ambiance. Nature-inspired motifs and vivid colours like mauve, purple, etc in tiles, wallpapers and accessories make for a vibrant space.

Remember Harry Potter’s statement to his uncle from the film series, “I’ll be in my bedroom, making no noise pretending that I don’t exist…” this I believe has become a choice of lifestyle for the world stuck in the ongoing pandemic.

After four phases of lockdown with a list of guidelines like maintain social distancing, rigorous hand washing and self isolation which brought our lives to a standstill. Though we are at present of unlock 2 but still the hustle & bustle of offices, schools and colleges are contained within our homes on online meetings. The only thing that soared was family bonding with endless conversations and petty fights only to reconcile over hot cups of tea.

I opted for going back to baking cakes, gardening and finish reading piled up dusty novels during the last few months.

These four months of lockdown were all about self discovery and rejuvenation.

Though it’s unlock phase but the surge in cases is in unstoppable so we are still stuck in crisis and the situation has not changed much since the lockdown.

Now I feel is the time we as a society should take forward the responsibility of facing the unforeseen.

None of us knew that this pandemic will actually hurt all in many ways be it health, finances, emotionally as well as socially.

Many people lost their lives hats off to all front line workers who not even once shied away from their regular duty and they truly deserve much accolades for the perseverance and hard work.

An unstable economy with inflation in the job market has paved way for serious introspection in individual skill development and small business ventures. Learning has no limit and so are aspirations, instead of jumping into the rat race of job search right after the completion of my master’s degree, I planned to focus on skill development relevant to my field of study, working on either online or offline internships is what I intend to do to get a basic core idea of how the industry intends to evolve with the ongoing challenges that has come with the pandemic.

You can make your work station at home more colourful, organised