Recent Posts Tagged With 'rest'

• LifeDev Roundup: Everything You Need to Take Better Breaks

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 18:12 in rest

  Photo by AmUnivers Ah yes. It’s almost officially Summer, and hopefully things are starting to slow down for you. Summer is the time for barbecues, baseball games, vacations, going to the lake or pool, and in general having more fun. Or at lea...

• Finding Stress-Reducing Idle Moments: The Anti Multi-tasking

  Posted on Tuesday May 26th, 2009 at 10:50 in environment, exercise, rest

  Photo by Paul Mayne Post by Albert van Zyl. Follow him on Twitter. tweetmeme_url = 'http://lifedev.net/2009/05/finding-stress-reducing-idle-moments-the-anti-multi-tasking/'; We often blame our jobs, families or the traffic for our stressful l...

• The Morning Tea Break: Making Better People out of Nurses

  Posted on Friday May 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 in tea, traditions, breaks, rest, nurses, practices

  photo credit: visualpanic It’s no surprise that taking social breaks help nurses cope with their work. The study employed an ethnographic methodology and found that the morning tea break ritual provided time, space and an environment where nurs...

• How to Take Great Breaks at the Office

  Posted on Monday April 21st, 2008 at 10:49 in stress, relaxation, office, rest, co-workers, work breaks

  photo credit: Adrià garcía Post written by Albert from Headspace. Most of us feel that we work too hard and that we don’t have enough breaks during our working day. The time between 8am and 7pm is a blur that only ends when we unlock the fron...

• Easy Renewal Tips For the Freelancer

  Posted on Monday January 14th, 2008 at 06:31 in relaxation, rest, renewal, freelancing

  Interestingly, many people don’t really give enough time to refreshing themselves. I mean, when was the last time you had that sigh of relief/relaxation? It doesn’t come often. Especially while we work. Work can add tons of stresses and b...

• Sleep Deprivation Messes with Emotions. Thanks A Lot, Neanderthals.

  Posted on Tuesday October 23rd, 2007 at 11:14 in Emotions, sleep, rest, primitive, caveman

  LiveScience is reporting that sleep-deprivation allows our brains to overreact to bad experience. “While we predicted that the emotional centers of the brain would overreact after sleep deprivation, we didn’t predict they’d overreac...

• Unschedule Your Work

  Posted on Thursday October 4th, 2007 at 15:54 in play, productivity, rest, schedule, resting, unschedule

  LifeRemix pal Chanpory of LifeClever has a great post on how to make more time in your work day… for yourself. Because let’s be honest: We’re going to make that time whether it’s on the schedule or not. According to Neil Fiore...

• Diversify Your Activities to Avoid Burnout

  Posted on Friday June 15th, 2007 at 14:35 in burnout, breaks, rest

  Although it's very related to the previous post, I couldn't help but comment on this great interview of the creators of Rockmade by Behance. Here's the takeaway quote from the article: “Having so many different kinds of projects and ideas in t...

• How To Work For Eight Hours Straight Without Hating Yourself

  Posted on Friday June 15th, 2007 at 14:23 in productivity, breaks, rest, burn out, 8 hour

  I've written before that becoming more productive sometimes means taking more breaks.  Unfortunately, real productivity-zealots can't seem to wrap their minds around this. “Wait… if I'm doing less, how can I do more?” I can just se...

• Interview With Tim Ferriss of The 4 Hour Work Week

  Posted on Monday April 30th, 2007 at 02:25 in entrepreneur, creativity, organization, productivity, interviews, rest, the 4 hour work week, tim ferriss

  As promised, I had an IM interview with the highly-successful author Tim Ferriss. Tim (among his many incredible feats) released a book called The 4-Hour Work Week, and it has instantly become a mega-hit. Fortunately, I was able to catch up with the...