Your Brain Functions Better With A Break
The Fulling team is continuing a video series! Each week in our staff meetings, we watch a culture & leadership video to aid in our professional and personal development. We are diving into the series called Redeeming Your Time At Work by Jordan Raynor
Managing our time wisely and effectively is one of the most important things we can do to advance our careers. When we institute the right lifestyle changes—not just adopting some habits—we can begin to reach our full potential. In this ten-session series, bestselling author Jordan Raynor will cover ten simple practices that will help us manage our time wisely and clear out the distractions that keep us from making progress with our work.
Jordan started the session by sharing that our brains need a break every ninety minutes. We should work for ninety minutes, rest for fifteen to thirty minutes, then repeat the cycle.
Everyone is going to have differing opinions on what makes a quality break. But Jordan gave us a good rule of thumb to follow: if you work with your hands, rest with your mind. And if you work with your mind, rest with your hands.
We learned in this session that eight hours of sleep is the ideal amount we need to function—nothing more, and nothing less.
Jordan gave us five steps to achieve eight hours of sleep every night: set a strict bedtime, stop striving an hour before bed, avoid caffeine and alcohol in the evenings, and make the bedroom as cold and dark as possible.
Join us as we hear more from Jordan about clearing distractions and managing our time wisely!
Food for Thought
With Jordan’s rule in mind, what would a quality break look like for you?
How long can you typically focus before you need to take a break? What could you do to protect your most productive hours?
How many hours of sleep do you typically get per night, and why? In what ways has your sleep pattern impacted the way you function during the workday?