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Speaker 1: Welcome to the New Corner Office, the podcast where we
Speaker 1: share strategies for thriving in the new world of work,
Speaker 1: where location and hours are more flexible than in the past.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to do a hundred jumping jacks a day.
Speaker 1: If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, perhaps
Speaker 1: a hundred jumping jacks or any exercise like that will
Speaker 1: keep the sleepies, the growl cheese, and the achus away.
Speaker 1: The good news about working at home is that it
Speaker 1: feels a lot less weird to do little bursts of
Speaker 1: activity there than at a traditional office, and that's good
Speaker 1: news for you, your energy levels and how much you
Speaker 1: get done. I know lots of people are squeezing in
Speaker 1: every minute they can at their desks these days. We're
Speaker 1: navigating a challenging business environment and maybe dealing with kids
Speaker 1: or other family members during working hours too. And yes,
Speaker 1: most jobs do require a fair amount of desk time
Speaker 1: to get done. But working at your desk without getting
Speaker 1: up for hours on end is not a recipe for
Speaker 1: sustainable success. Your body will get achey and stiff, your
Speaker 1: mind will become less sharp, and you'll experience more stress
Speaker 1: and irritability. One solution is to build energizing movement into
Speaker 1: your day. Of course, the solid workout like going for
Speaker 1: a forty five minute run at lunch is wonderful, but
Speaker 1: if that is not happening, that doesn't mean that you
Speaker 1: are off the hook, your body still needs to move,
Speaker 1: and there's plenty of evidence that even microbursts of activity
Speaker 1: can boost energy levels for hours. So try setting a
Speaker 1: goal that will prompt you to incorporate short bursts of
Speaker 1: physical activity into your work day. Jumping Jack's, burpes, sprints
Speaker 1: up and down the stairs, planks, and push ups are
Speaker 1: all great examples of activities you can do right where
Speaker 1: you are, without special equipment, for just a few minutes
Speaker 1: at a time. A hundred jumping Jack's a day may
Speaker 1: sound like a lot, but it really isn't as long
Speaker 1: as you think about incorporating movement into those little bits
Speaker 1: of time that we all have available. Whenever you're hanging
Speaker 1: up the phone, just stand up and do ten. After
Speaker 1: you come back to your desk from a bathroom break,
Speaker 1: do another ten. You'll hit a hundred by mid afternoon. Easy.
Speaker 1: Or maybe you prefer to do a minute long plank
Speaker 1: pose during these transitions, you'll probably find opportunities for half
Speaker 1: a dozen or more during the work day. Or you
Speaker 1: can plan to go up and down the stairs ten times. Great.
Speaker 1: Write your goal on a post it note by your computer,
Speaker 1: Then whenever you transition, do one set of your chosen
Speaker 1: activity and put a tick mark on your sticky note.
Speaker 1: See how many you've done at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: Now you may be feeling skeptical about this. You may
Speaker 1: be convinced that you do not have time for one
Speaker 1: more thing in your day. But each of these bursts
Speaker 1: of movement might take a minute or less time yourself
Speaker 1: doing ten jumping decks, you'll see what I mean. We
Speaker 1: are not talking huge amounts of time, and guess what
Speaker 1: this transition time is usually not time spent on deep
Speaker 1: work anyway, you are deleting newsletters from your inbox or
Speaker 1: checking social media. My guess is that your productivity won't
Speaker 1: suffer if you spend a wee bit less time on
Speaker 1: those things, especially because of this second truth. Exercise doesn't
Speaker 1: take time, it makes time. Whatever time you devote to
Speaker 1: physical activity within reason will be paid back to you
Speaker 1: in terms of more energy and better focus. When you
Speaker 1: do a few sprints up and down the stairs in
Speaker 1: mid afternoon, you'll be able to complete that report. If
Speaker 1: you don't, um, you'll find yourself reading the same email
Speaker 1: six times in a row and then clicking on that
Speaker 1: link that takes you to Facebook, where you find yourself
Speaker 1: reading that political screed posted by a guy who was
Speaker 1: in your tenth grade English class, Spare yourself. Attending to
Speaker 1: our bodies helps us do our best work and feel
Speaker 1: our best too. Of course, there's nothing stopping people who
Speaker 1: work in traditional offices from doing a hundred jumping jacks
Speaker 1: today either, but the group norms of propriety tend to
Speaker 1: discourage it. Working from home gets rid of these norms.
Speaker 1: Just another way that working from home can be a
Speaker 1: source of strategic advantage if you build energizing movement into
Speaker 1: your work day, I'd love to hear what your goal
Speaker 1: is and how you do it. You can let me
Speaker 1: know your plan at Laura at Laura Vanderkamp dot com.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
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