#1 Take a Walk
Experiment with walking around once every 30 minutes throughout the day. Set a timer to remind you! It will stimulate your blood flow and lead to a burst of hyper oxygenation in the brain, increasing energy and attentiveness. A walk will give your overworked brain “muscle” a minute to rejuvenate. Walk around the block. Go out to lunch. Take advantage of better weather, and spend your lunchtime in a near by park, having lunch out of a paper bag. Walk into a nearby place of worship and meditate. Consider walking during your meetings!
#2 Get Organized
Your first reaction is shouting back at me: “Boring!” By organizing for a few minutes a couple of times a day, you will get a much needed break from staring at your computer screen, and you will have to get up and move around, thus exercise and clearing your head from your tasks at hand. You will get energized and refreshed and that will get you more productive. You will also save MUCH needed time searching for lost or misplaced documents, files and pieces of information.
If you were to TRACK how much time you lost on searching for things due to disorganization, you’d be shocked to find out the straight line to lost revenue. The Business Section of the ‘Wall Street Journal’ recently reported: “The average U.S. executive wastes SIX WEEKS PER YEAR searching for missing information on messy desks and in files. Every lost piece of paper costs a business $120. In fact, fifteen percent of all paper handled in businesses is lost and thirty percent of all employees’ time is spent trying to find lost documents.”
Something to think about, right?
Until next time,
Thomas Antonopoulos, Blogger for OfficeTime
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