Working full time at construction site away from home, family and friends is a unique experience on its own and can be quite challenging. Usually, the nature of work is physically demanding, has longer working hours and almost no weekends, which does not mean it is a career not worth pursuing. While working in these tough conditions, you can feel out of touch with yourself and experience some kind of void in your everyday life. Here are 6 ways you can live a fuller life even while working remotely at Construction sites:

1. Be Conscious about your Physical Well Being

   Working in a construction site automatically ensures a certain level of physical activity. Besides that, you can take up any kind of light to heavy workouts regularly. Even better is to play any kind of sports day in day out to ensure your overall fitness.

   ‘Routine sets you free.’ It seems counterintuitive, but in terms of taking care of your physical health, the routine can do wonders by bringing in expected changes and setting aside more freedom in terms of time.
   You are what you eat. It is very inconvenient to establish a healthy eating habit at the site. First, the food you eat is prepared for a large number of people, where quantity compromises quality. A little bit of extra effort and you can set aside healthy food for yourself. Second, alcohol intake. Yes, I am being as direct as possible. You have to keep that to a bare minimum. As underrated as it is, one of the most important parts of your day is sleep which is responsible for regulating and maintaining so much of your bodily functions. Sleep re-energizes you, balances important hormones, improves cognitive ability and so much more. Get in bed on time and give yourself just enough sleep.

2. Take care of your Mental Health

   Working on-site is extremely stressful. Sometimes nothing goes as planned, the schedule slips out of your hand, the level of contingency is so high it takes a direct toll on your mental state. Being mindful of everything that’s around you and trying to live in the present can reduce a lot of stress. Taking daily journals including your work activities, personal agendas and some gratitude writing can work miracles to keep your head out of the water. Meditation

   I cannot stress enough. Every single one of all successful hard-working people meditates in some way every day. I still have not figured out to keep up the consistency with meditation but I have been trying and you should too. We all should be clear that our mental health is as important as our physical health.

3. Know your Limit and avoid Burnout

   Working in adverse conditions can make you feel burned out. Burnout is a state of physical and emotional exhaustion felt after working under stress for prolonged periods. When you start to feel as such regularly, you should realize that you need a break. It is time for a time-out. Fill in that leave application, get out of there, take your time, and come back revitalized. One way to avoid burnout is to space out your holidays. The number of days you can take as leaves should be spaced in almost equal intervals to ensure proper rest days. Also, talk to people about how you are feeling, with colleagues and with management.

4. Read and Write

   You should never abandon reading and reading will never abandon you. Construction sites have fewer creative spaces as compared to other working areas. Some of you have so much creative energy inside that it needs to be poured out. Reading and writing can help a lot doing that. Read books, articles, papers, or whatever you like,  let those ideas incubate and let those readings help you hatch newer ideas into real-life practices. Books can be your friends, remember that. Reading and writing have helped me a lot to channel my thoughts, I am sure it can do the same to you as well. While you are here, you can follow me on Goodreads, to connect and share what we read.

5. Connect more

   When you work at remote construction sites, you are physically disconnected from your friends and family. At worse, you can’t even connect to them via the mobile network. If you are like me and tend to forget to call your family or friends, set aside a schedule. A schedule to call and talk to important people in your life. This way you can keep up with the lives of your people and they can know what’s up with you as well. Use social media in moderation, use it only to connect and not to consume. Remember it is more fulfilling to be social than to be in social media.

6. Escape monotonic Routine

   I found this hack to live a more fulfilling life even while having monotonous work life. Just try to do one difficult thing every day. Work a little towards that thing you had postponed every day because it was difficult. This way you can remember each passing day distinctively and get rid of the feeling of days overlapping. The feeling that every day is the same can be reduced using that one trick. Other ways to avoid monotonous feelings in your work are to take new responsibilities, swap duties with colleagues, and change working hours.