Feeling tired?

Again a nice article in Talouselämä-magazine. Here is short reference of it.

Feeling tired during working? Feeling being stuck with tasks? Losing focus? It is time to have a break and let brains to take a breath. It has been studied that optimal time to be well focused is 1.5 hours. After 1.5 hours propability of failures increased significantly. Also recovery time gets longer.

So, in order to keep performance high there should not be more than 2 or 3 intensive and well focus working session per day. What to do when having a break?

1. Stop working. Let the brains have a break.
2. Take a fresh air. Brains are using 20% of all oxygen that body needs.
3. Get into light.
4. Move. Take a walk or at least stand up in your working place.
5. Sleep. Yes! 20 - 30 minute nap do the trick. (Most of the cases taking a nap is not possible, but this is brings funny vision of office where people taking naps ;) )
6. Drink water.

Important thing to remember is that your brains decide when they are ready to work and when it is time to have a break. Your task is to listen and understand your body and to act accordingly.