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Here is a list of top three skills that can be learned in less than 5 minutes in order of their importance:

1. Clean up your work desk: It tricks your mind into being organized and energetic. A cluttered desk increases cognitive stress, which contributes to sub-par performance. This is the best professional advice that I heard from the CEO of a multibillion dollar company.

2. Clean up your desktop: If you have many CSV files, Excel documents, PowerPoint presentations all over your desktop, delete them (if you don’t need them anymore) or make a new folder (if you still use them) to store the information. A clean PC desktop reinforces the organization and energy gained from a clean desk. To add to a clean desktop, you can also reply to your e-mail by assigning an e-mail only time (I usually dedicate half an hour to this task) and have minimal unanswered inbox messages. You want to make your professional environment look as much ordered and in your control as you can.

3. Before heading to work drink a glass of cold water: You get the same benefits as drinking a cup of coffee without the anxiety or the jittery feeling that coffee can have on some users. You will feel energetic and a glass of cold water also helps your body increase its metabolism (by boosting your body’s ability to burn fat—due to the energy required to warm the cold water to the body’s temperature).