How to keep yourself up and alert

Coffee, coffee and more coffee.

When I feel sleepy, I usually drink a coffee and move a bit, splashing water on my face helps.

I think employees should be allowed to stand up and roam around for a short break after long hours on the desk. This will keep the mind awake.

This always happens to me! I always feel sleepy when I'm working! Try to drink some coffee, it might work but sometimes it isn't, or probably depends on what coffee are you going to drink! Or you can stand up for a while and do some stretching and walk for a while to make yourself awake! If not, try to wash your face with water, if this still not working, I slap my face, but not so hard just enough strength to hurt myself, and the last one, I've done this when I was a student and I feel so very sleepy because the class is very boring, I keep on biting my tongue as hard as I can, because pain can make me wakes up! I'm going to bite it for the entire of the class to make sure that I'm still awake, oh I remember another one! I pinched my legs or one of my fingers to feel the pain! It might work, or it might not, but I'm doing those things to make myself awake! You can try any of those but the most powerful is hurting myself so that I can feel the pain and stay awake, after I feel that, I'm already awake, but I've done that when I was young and studying at school, nowadays I do light things like coffee, walking, stretching, washing face or slapping my face but not much hard.

That time is really tough for me too. I just took a nap, I'm still on vacation but I will have to face that as well once I go back to work.

I use energy drinks sometime I use to drink coffee