People who work with the brain in mind tend to capitalize on more of its wonders. How so?
1. Avoid groggy backlash that comes to those who awaken their brain d
uring its deeper sleep cycles. Rhythmic patterns last for 90 minutes and don’t do well when they are broken or interrupted.2. Draw on rote memory strengths in the morning – when your brain’s at its sharpest. Take advantage and list three key questions to toss out at the meeting later that day. Get others talking because most workplace meetings literally kill brain cells.
3. Relax your brain waves over a morning walk, and plan an approach to draw from multiple intelligences for new answers to old questions. Pique your curiosity by asking …”What if…” to solve a problem you encounter at work.
4. Toss one enjoyable event into your day. Or reschedule one possible conflicted situation, until you reflect or gain advice from a mentor about how to handle it better, in a calm way. Did you know that stress literally shrinks your brain, or that at least 22 stressors will hit you on most days?
5. Laugh at yourself, or at something you remember, and tell the joke to somebody you know. Even laugh at your mistakes and the brain will recycle errors into lessons that inspire those around you.
6. Launch a new tone at work – by words you use and by the way you greet and engage others. Listen, ask questions about how others differ from you, and benefit from these differences. Since each brain is wired differently, and rewires daily … a positive tone will help to challenge yours and to optimize those differences at work.
7. Take time out just for you. Benefit from chemical and electrical impulses for new creativity and better work experiences. Become better friends with you. It’s called intrapersonal intelligence … it builds new neuron pathways to success just like the greatest thinkers of our time do when they spend quality time alone.
8. Run from negativity and avoid cynics or the sharp edges of sarcasm. Avoid blame and you brain will build neuron pathways for innovative solutions. Take one risk and try something new at work. Find peaceful solutions where others see conflict.
9. Play your favorite music in the car on your trip home, and .
10. Think and act like Einstein or Aristotle. Ignore age but let the old socks be, when they refuse to change. We now know that brains are kept younger through daily doses of high-performance tasks. Do one thing at a time, though…. Did you know that your brain comes equipped with a neural bottleneck that thwarts multi-tasking?
Choose any one of the above … and reboot your brain for a better day – based on hidden and unused resources that too many workplaces tend to snuff out. Ready … set … go…!
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