Natalie Nixon

It requires like with all things,

crossroads to acknowledge there's a different way that maybe the ways we'd be going about it don't serve us in an optimal way.

And so operationalizing move, think, rest first requires that we understand what this human-centered operating system is.

So the first thing, it's not a siloed process.

It's not first you move, then you think, and then you rest.

It's very integrative.

Movement refers to movement hygiene.

So operationalizing movement throughout the day means that we occasionally are standing while we're working.

We make sure that we counter in buffers to step away from the desk to if we're in a building, if we're confined to a building, take the stairs.

If we have the ability to walk outside, you know, sometimes we think, oh, I don't have time to take a walk because we think a walk has to take.

30 minutes, just like we assume for some reason that a meeting should be 30 minutes long.

Says who, right?

We've got to challenge a lot of assumptions, but I have walks that take three minutes long.

I have walks that I know will take seven minutes.

If I'm feeling, you know, but I have particularly a lot of time budgeted in the day, I could take a 15 to 30 minute walk.

But the point is when we move, our ideas move and the spinal cord is an extension of the brain.

So when we are sick, cramped, seated, cramped over,

our laptop or our computer for even more than 40 minutes.

And this is according to research by neuroscientist, Dr. John Medina.

He's written an incredible series of books called Brain Rules.