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Start power napping
When you can’t figure out what to do, it’s time for a nap.
—MASON COOLEY
It is one of my absolute favorites. And at the same time, it’s
scientifically proven that a power
nap at midday re-energizes,
refreshes and increases productivity. For me, it was an absolute eye-
opener. During my most stressful period at work—when I was close
to burning out, as the stress, and client threats and complaints were
getting unbearable (sometimes, I thought we were doing emergency
surgery, yet we were just producing books), I started taking a power
nap and the change was extraordinary. I was far less stressed and a
lot calmer while hearing out complaints and finding solutions. For a
while, I slept for 25 to 30 minutes on a bench in a park close by and
later, I just put two chairs together in the office and slept there. It felt
as if my working day suddenly had two halves and midday was
halftime. I started the “second half”
always fresh and I also
performed a lot more productively because the typical tiredness after
lunch between 2 and 5 p.m. was gone.
Are you going to try power
napping? When will you start?
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Read for half an hour each day
The man who doesn’t read has no advantage
over the man that can’t read.
—MARK TWAIN
If you read for half an hour a day, that’s
three and a half hours a
week and 182 hours a year! That’s a lot of knowledge at your
disposal. One of my first written goals
during my coaching training
was “to read more”. That was at a time when I hadn’t read a book for
years. Now I’m devouring an average of two books a week. I read
more in the last six months than I did in the whole 15 years before—
including my International Business studies. So always
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