Old Work Habit – Not Good for the Eyes

I have been busy working on a new look for the website. I spent a lot of time programming to get things working correctly. With a week and a half of long hours, I can feel the my eyesight getting more strained and blurrier. I fell back into one bad habit — not taking breaks to rest my eyes. I worked long and hard to get the task done, and I compromised my eyesight to do it. It would have been better if I had looked away every few minutes and focused on something far away. In my haste to get it done, I forgot to take care of my eyes. It’s so easy to fall back into our old routines. I have been exercising my eyes for years, but somehow, I can still fall back into bad habits.

Good habits I want to develop when I’m working:
• every ten minutes, scan the room and focus on objects far away
• every half hour, close my eyes and/or massage around the eyes for a few minutes
• every hour, take a break and relax my eyes (maybe look out the window) for at least 5 minutes

These are simple thing to do, but I didn’t do it. I will try writing these three things on a post-it and stick it on the monitor the next time I’m pressed to get something done.