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Exercise Your Eyes
Our eyes take the burden of much of our tech-fueled lives.Your eyes can begin to feel strain in as little as two hours.
Use a simple exercise that will help reduce your eye fatigue: 20-20-20. Every 20 minutes look away from your computer screen and focus on an item at least 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds.
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We Need Breaks
A recent Apple ad celebrated entrepreneurs working so hard, they’re not able to see their children.
This style of working is unsustainable. We physically can’t work at 100% capacity, 10...
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Exercise
Hit the gym (or at least go for a walk).
Researchers discovered that just 10 minutes of exercise is enough to boost memory and attention performance throughout the day.
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Take In The Great Outdoors
Studies show that just spending time in nature can help alleviate mental fatigue by relaxing and restoring the mind. Additionally, increased exposure to sunlight and fresh air helps increase productivity and can even improve your sleep.
Simply being around natural elements can have ...
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Distract Yourself To Recharge Your Focus
Intense focus actually makes us less focused in the long run. Instead of thinking about the problem without stop, we need to create distractions that take our attention away from the task at hand so we can come back at it with a fresh mind.
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Give Your Mind The Right Fuel
Your brain works best with a consistent level of glucose in your blood–25 grams.
To keep your brain working at peak performance, opt for a snack on your break that includes a higher level of protein, such as a small serving of chicken, beef, or fish, nuts or nut butter, or a protein ...
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Take A Break Every 52 Minutes
After analyzing 5.5 million daily records of how office workers are using their computer (based on what the user self-identified as “productive” work), they found that the top 10% of productive workers all worked an average of 52 minutes before taking a 17 minute break.
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Let Your Mind Wander
Daydreaming is a fantastic way for us to access our unconscious and allow ideas that have been silently incubating to bubble up into our conscious.
Meaning that while you think you’re doing nothing, you’re actually mining the depths of your mind for more creative solutions to the proble...
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Exercising Your Eyes
Do 20-20-20- eye breaks to alleviate eye strain and fatigue. Every 20 minutes, stare at something 20 feet away, for 20 seconds.
Doing this requires blood to flow to brain areas that are not related to sustained attention. It may be the reason why eye exercises are restorative.
The 20-20-20 technique for eye strain
Eye strain is a common symptom of too much time on a screen. It can lead to headaches, tense shoulders and back, and potentially blurred vision.
A simple exercise to help with eye-strain: After every 20 minutes, look at an object 20 feet away for 20 seconds.
Digital eyestrain
The symptoms associated with it can appear every time we focus on anything, from reading a book, looking at a screen, or watching TV.
To reduce it, you can shift your eyes every 20 minutes onto something that is 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds. And if this is not working, try art...
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