Carolina de Arriba

In through the nose, out through the mouth.

Longer exhales activate your parasympathetic nervous system.

Translation, they calm you down.

They signal your body that you're safe, that you're not being chased and that you can rest.

This is especially powerful before difficult conversations or big decisions.

So try this before your next heart meeting, take a five minute break, close the door, close your laptop and just breathe.

Reset number three, change your environment.

Sometimes the fastest reset is just moving to a different room, different chair, different view, different space.

Your brain associates environments with states.

So if you're staring at the same screen in the same chair for four, six, eight hours, your brain is stuck.

So when you change the environment, you literally change your state.

Go work from a different room or to a coffee shop or sit outside.

Even just moving to a different room in your office or your house can shift your energy.

Reset number four, hydration plus real food.

I can't tell you how many times I think that I'm tired when I'm actually just dehydrated or hungry.

Your brain is 75% water.

When you're even slightly dehydrated, cognitive function drops.

And when your blood sugar crashes, so does your energy.

So now when energy drops, I ask myself, when was the last time that I drank some water?

And when was the last time that I ate some protein?