How To Have Great Energy To Accomplish Your Best Work & Save Your Neck and Back

Hello Friend!

If you are reading this, I’m going to assume that you have a full schedule and you take your success and wellness seriously.

I love Jordan Raynor’s advice when he says, “In order to do more, most of us need to do less and rest more.”

When you start to work for 4 hours straight and sometimes forget to take a break, eat lunch or go to the bathroom, you burnout and end up with health issues.

You want to focus on doing workouts vs sprints at your desk.

This means taking time to get away from the laptop, focus on something far from the screen and looking outside to rest from eye strain, prevent headaches, as well as neck and back tensions.

Then you can come back and get in the zone again. Below are a few tips that have worked for me and my community.

1. Pomodoro + Deep Work Technique.

The video in the link above helps you do focused work from rest.

It is like working out at the gym where you do physical work and then rest in between reps.

“Human beings are not designed to run like computers- at high speeds continuously for long periods of time….We’re designed to pulse.” Tony Schwartz, CEO of the Energy Project.

Know your cycle and your circadian rhythm and incorporate Deep Work and the Pomodoro Technique together.

Practice, practice, practice and you will be doing your greatest work for your soul and the world!

Nightly Sleep

The World Health Organization now labels our collective lack of sleep an “emerging global epidemic.”

Dr. Matthew Walker summarized in his bestselling book Why We Sleep research linking sleep to our productivity stating: a failure to get adequate sleep is worse for your performance than an equivalent absence of food or exercise or showing up to work drunk.

Lack of sleep is bad for our health and can lead to depression, anxiety, lowered immune system and more.

Benefits of Sleep:

Better concentration
Helps perfect skills
Earn more income

How to get for 7-8 hours sleep per night:

Set a bedtime
Spend last hour before bed to relax the body (stretches, yoga, meditation, book)
Avoid caffeine and alcohol past 3pm
Make bedroom dark and cold (69 degrees) as possible
Avoid screen time before bed & leave cell phone outside of bedroom
Add 3 drops of your favorite calming essential oils to diffuser and turn on for deep sleep
Establish regular sleep cycles and make it an atomic habit

Working from sleep can help you be refreshed and ready to be focused and productive.

Getting Outdoors and Rest from The Noise

Benefits of getting outdoors:

Resets the circadian rhythm
The sun elevates Vitamin D levels
May lower blood pressure
Reduce inflammation
Good for eyesight
Improves Sleep
Burns more calories
Gets you away from the laptop lifestyle
Allows you to take deeper breaths
Movement outdoors helps digest food in your gut
Relieves stress, anxiety and depression
Nature is healing
Boosts immunity
Generates creativity

Add time on your calendar to get outdoors in solitude or with the ones you hold sacred. You’ll come back feeling healthier and with more energy to rock on!

4. Eliminate Hurry and Slow Down

The #1 Problem people face via John Mark Comer and a respected PhD Clinical Psychologist is that: Most people are just too busy to have a spiritual, emotional, vibrant lives. People don’t have the time.

This is such a great video of why we should eliminate hurry in our lives.

MY 5 MINUTE BREAK TOOLS DURING POMODORO WORK:

If you have space at your desk or office for these tools below, grab them in the links provided to save your eyes, neck, back, sanity, breath and prevent headaches. These great tools will also help regulate and calm you back down to homeostasis and save you a ton of medical bills in the long run.

Roll out your Yoga Mat and lay down on your Rest Cloud Neck and Shoulder Relaxer
Put your Silk Eye Mask over your eyes
Set your Timer for 5 minutes and take deep breaths
Get up and work from rest!