“What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!” ~ Dale Carnegie from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
How about some how-to’s on relaxing?
- Relax in odd moments. Let your body go limp like an old sock. Carnegie says he keeps an old maroon dress sock on his desk to remind himself to relax. Classic.
- Work, as much as possible, in a comfortable position. 10 years ago when I was a stressed out 25-year old CEO with 45 employees who’d raised $5m to finance my first business (eteamz.com) during the dot com boom of the late 90’s, I used to get what I’d call “Frankensteined”--my neck wouldn’t move b/c it was so tight. I realized that all the tension was adding up, exacerbated by the fact that I had my computer monitor set up so I had to look to my right while typing. Not comfortable. In fact, DUMB. Do you look STRAIGHT at your computer monitor? If not, please fix that today. Seriously. Get comfy and RELAX while you work.
- Check yourself four or five times a day, and say to yourself, “Am I making my work harder than it actually is? Am I using muscles that have nothing to do with the work I’m doing?” Love that. I often set my stop watch’s timer to repeatedly count down from 30-minutes. When it beeps it’s a brilliant reminder for me to pause, stretch out quickly, shut my eyes, breathe deeply, relax, say a few mantras and do a quick re-charge. You might dig that. It’s amazing to see just how much tension can build even doing stuff we love! Set your watch for 2 hours if you want and rock it.
- “Test yourself again at the end of the day, by asking yourself, “Just how tired am I? If I am tired, it is not because of mental work I have done but because of the way I have done it.” Know that if you’re cranky or tired, it’s because of the tension you allowed to build during the day. RELAX. Breathe, crumple yourself up like an old sock and keep the fatigue and the worry away! :)
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