From Harvard Business Review
Six Ways to Refuel Your Energy Every Day
by Tony Schwartz | December 13, 2010
Are you working longer hours, attending more meetings, taking shorter vacations, answering more emails and eating lunch at your desk, if you eat lunch at all?
Does demand in your life just keep getting higher, so you’re struggling more and more just to keep up? Are you utterly sick of hearing the phrase “do more with less?” Does the word “unsustainable” sound about right?
Human beings aren’t meant to operate like computers — at high speeds, continuously, for long periods of time. We’re designed to be rhythmic, and to intermittently renew. Here are the six strategies we’ve found work best:
1. Make sufficient sleep your highest priority.
Far too many of us buy into the myth that one hour less of sleep allows us one more of productivity. In fact, even very small amounts of sleep deprivation significantly undermine capacity for focus, analytic thinking and creativity.
The research is clear: more than 95 per cent of us require seven to eight hours of sleep in order to be fully rested, and for our brains to optimally embed new learning. Great performers, ranging from musicians to athletes, often get even more than 8 hours. -------------->>>
2. Take a renewal break at least every ninety minutes.
3. Keep a running list of everything — literally everything — that you want or need to do.
4. Run up your heart rate or take a nap in the early afternoon.
5. Practice appreciation — and savoring.
6. Develop a transition ritual between work and home.
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Six Ways to Refuel Your Energy Every Day
by Tony Schwartz | December 13, 2010
Are you working longer hours, attending more meetings, taking shorter vacations, answering more emails and eating lunch at your desk, if you eat lunch at all?
Does demand in your life just keep getting higher, so you’re struggling more and more just to keep up? Are you utterly sick of hearing the phrase “do more with less?” Does the word “unsustainable” sound about right?
Human beings aren’t meant to operate like computers — at high speeds, continuously, for long periods of time. We’re designed to be rhythmic, and to intermittently renew. Here are the six strategies we’ve found work best:
1. Make sufficient sleep your highest priority.
Far too many of us buy into the myth that one hour less of sleep allows us one more of productivity. In fact, even very small amounts of sleep deprivation significantly undermine capacity for focus, analytic thinking and creativity.
The research is clear: more than 95 per cent of us require seven to eight hours of sleep in order to be fully rested, and for our brains to optimally embed new learning. Great performers, ranging from musicians to athletes, often get even more than 8 hours. -------------->>>
2. Take a renewal break at least every ninety minutes.
3. Keep a running list of everything — literally everything — that you want or need to do.
4. Run up your heart rate or take a nap in the early afternoon.
5. Practice appreciation — and savoring.
6. Develop a transition ritual between work and home.
Read more from Harvard Business Review >>
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