⚡ Energy Management: 3 Tips to Increase Productivity 🔋
The pace of life is accelerating and energy management has become a skill that is essential for a modern person. Do you want to do more and live life to the fullest? It's real. We know how to catch the rhythm of a big city and share new knowledge in this article.
Energy management begins with rhythm
Tony Schwartz, an American journalist and writer, knows how to find your rhythm and synchronize it with the rest of the world.
When you find your rhythm, it's a solo. When you manage to play with the rest of the world, it's a symphony. But Schwartz has it a little simpler: He believes that it's enough to learn to be rhythmic for 24 hours, or even less. A working day is enough to find your rhythm and develop a strategy for how not to stray. By rhythm, the publicist means the ability to restore energy throughout the day. Have you ever played computer games? If so, you can easily imagine the character's life scale. If you don't replenish it during one level, you won't pass it. And first aid kits and other bonuses are usually scattered throughout the location, helping the character to stay, literally, in the game. You can organize your working day in the same way as a developer does a location: create rest areas for yourself or find free minutes in which you can only rest. These can be short breaks. The main thing here is not their duration, but their frequency.
Working “for the kill” is not an option
Sugar is the enemy of those who want to take control of energy
Sugar is fast energy. You can drink strong tea with sugar and it will suddenly become easier for you to live and work, but after half an hour you will feel a strong outflow of energy. To avoid sudden changes from productivity to apathy, eat fruits or nuts during breaks. And if you want to drink, choose clean water, but without gas. To broaden your horizons, search the Internet to find out how much sugar is contained in the products that you regularly eat.
Energy management extends to sleep too
Following the logic of the well-known proverb, you are not only what you eat, but also how you sleep. If you cannot rest in your sleep, you have very little chance that the rhythm of the entire working day that you verified the day before will be observed during the day.
Practice “sleep hygiene”
Find the optimal conditions for a night's rest. Perhaps you have never aired out your room before going to bed. Try it. Fresh air has a beneficial effect on falling asleep. At what time do you sleep best? There are standard calculations, but you may have your own sleep phases and your own rest interval. When is it comfortable for you to finish your last meal? Do you go to bed on a full stomach or do you prefer to go hungry? Both can negatively affect your sleep in general.