I had projects I enjoyed working on when not at work and I would bring portions of them to work for lunch, breaks, thinking about when doing mindless/boring tasks at work. I took online classes and used my work to write about for my coursework. I brought books, notebooks, symbols/touchstones, pictures of what I loved to work and integrated them as best I could into my job. My desk and work environment never looked like anyone else's it was very much "Mine"