How do you do this? Contrary to all your impulses, it’s not just by spending the morning board meeting wishing yourself away to a remote beach in Thailand with a coconut daiquiri in hand.

Instead, you need to do something that fully transports you – physically or metaphorically – from your workspace for one small window of the day.

“If you hate your job, it’s important to do something every day to relieve the feeling that you’re stuck in a never-ending slog,” says Dorie Clark, a strategy consultant and author of Entrepreneurial You.

Hate your job? Here’s how to make those long days a lot easier