T I M E M A N A G E M E N T
your enemies or run away from them. These automatic responses
will work against you when you’ve got no one to fight and nowhere
to run.
These reactions can build on themselves, and you can get caught
in a dangerous loop. You sense danger, and your body responds.
That response in turn seems to verify the perception of danger and
triggers still more response.
No wonder you can’t relax at the end of the day!
But the cycle can work for you as well as against you. If you can
relax your body—slowing your breathing, calming your heart—by
taking a two-minute break, your panic will subside. You’ll regain
focus, clarity, and energy.
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I can assure you that these techniques have helped me greatly.
You can prove that they work for you by trying them for twenty-
one days before drawing any conclusions about their effectiveness.
Break up your day with three or four of these short breaks for
three weeks and see if you notice the difference.
But I’ll warn you right now: you won’t remember to rest on
your own. You’re going to have to build these breaks into your
daily routine, and you’ll probably even need to plant reminders,
in the form of a note in the briefcase, a Post-it on the monitor, a
reminder in your computer calendar.
How about it? Are you willing to try? You have nothing to lose
but tension and that “quiet desperation” Thoreau warned us about
so many years ago.