Breathe - Deeply
When approaching tasks and managing information the tendency is to want to get everything done in one go. This is self-defeating.
Different tasks require a different approach, mindset and emotional disposition. If you are writing a blog for your website, your engagement and mood will be different. You tend to be more serious and structured.
Switch to reading comments and giving feedback at WA, it would help if you are more relaxed, receptive and open. Your responses and interpretations will be more effective.
It helps therefore, to take a break during and between tasks. If you are trying to understand something and having difficulty, you may want to throw out a question, leave it alone for a few minutes and take a stretch or drink a glass of water.
Resting your brain, eyes and hands will help to boost your energy.
The simple act of closing your eyes and breathing deeply helps leaps and bounds! Try to take as many as you can, as frequently as you can. The more oxygen, the better and, it helps your eyes.
Stretching while breathing deeply is one of the best things that you can do as someone who spends a lot of time sitting and working on a laptop.
A simple and effective exercise:
- Stand firmly with your legs together, hands at your side.
- Raise your hands straight in front of you, carrying them up until they are above your head.
- Close your eyes, take a deep breath, bend from your waist and slow let the tip of your fingers touch the tip of your toes.
- Hold that position to the count of 7.
- Exhale on the way back up.
- Hands to you side and relax.
Doing that periodically throughout the day, every hour or so will definitely help you keep focused and calm.
It's amazing how we often know where we make mistakes and do nothing about it, but when someone else point that out to you, then you stop, think about it and start making a change.
So, thanks for this reminder! I will definitely take step by step and use my time wisely as you suggested!
Keep writing, you are definitely doing an excellent job!
All the best!
Ana
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Yes, at one point or another , we all are overwhelmed with the amount of information that comes rushing to us. However, we have to find a way to navigate around it all and use only what we need and let the rest fall by the wayside.
Thanks for the great advice you so willing provided to help us avoid the constant overload and in so doing find some form of balance. Wishing you the very best!
Kind regards,
Nichola
Once we are able to find our balance and implement a system that works, things get a lot easier.
I appreciate the time you took to read through the tutorial and provide feedback.
Thank you.
Cassi
I'm used to staying focussed and getting things done in a timely manner in an offline world. However, I seem to get more easily distracted online and need to apply a touch more self discipline!!
Rick
I have noticed over the years that when the going gets tough the most underwhelmed people tend to have been the best organised.
The best organised tend to have been those who capture all there 'stuff'' in writing in some form, (thereby dumping their stuff outside of their mind, thereby minimising interference in their minds). They then turn their stuff into action lists that they priorotise based on what they want to achieve.
Writing saves the day for me in more ways than one.
Thank you for your support.
Cassi
